Art

At Broadmead, we place great importance on children’s understanding of art. Children learn about its place in history, about how it features in our and other people’s cultures, and they learn how to produce artwork using different skills and media.

During weekly art sessions, children have the opportunity to observe, discuss and create. There is also time for them to evaluate their own and other pupils’ work.  Lessons are structured around the children’s half-termly IPC topic and reflect and build upon what they are learning in their other lessons. Children create individually, in partners and collaboratively, and they sculpt, collage, draw – using a wide range of media – or paint with poster paints, watercolours, acrylics, fabric paints and, for some topics, we even make our own paint from natural resources!

Design Technology

Part of the DT process is to plan in detail, create and then carefully evaluate. Children are taught these valuable skills from Year 1 onwards. The DT curriculum is taught through the IPC.

In DT we aim to encourage children to think critically about the products that are around them, and investigate how these can be improved for their use. Wherever possible, we include DT in our other lessons to ensure the children find meaning for the products they are creating.