At Bletchingley Village Primary School and Nursery, our aim is to nurture every child’s creativity, imagination, and visual literacy, encouraging them to think and act like artists and designers. Following a spiral curriculum, we provide an inspiring environment where pupils build on their early creative experiences to develop the confidence to experiment and communicate meaning through Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, and Craft and Design.

Our curriculum empowers children to master technical skills while gaining a deep theoretical understanding of diverse artists, designers, and art movements. Through the use of sketchbooks, pupils document their personal creative journeys—from generating initial ideas to refining techniques and evaluating their work. By fostering a natural inquisitiveness and a respect for art in all its forms, we ensure that all pupils can succeed in their learning and carry a lifelong passion for the subject with them.

WHAT OUR PUPILS SAY

Year One: "I like using the paints." "I really enjoyed when we got to draw the different fruit."

Year Two: "I liked mixing colours and experimenting to make secondary colours with primary colours."

Year Three: "Colour mixing is fun- I like being able to make my own colours in Art. I like painting because you can make your own patterns."

Year Four: "I like creating things and being able to turn a vision into life."

Year Five: "I like that when you are drawing, you have the freedom to do whatever you like, and you can make your own content.

Year Six: "I like art because it is a way of expressing different emotions through different mediums. I like learning the different techniques of using different things and how things turn out differently each time."