year: Year 5

Teacher video: Arch and beam bridge

This Design and technology scheme of work video introduces teachers to a practical investigation where Key stage 2 pupils test and compare the strength of different bridge structures.

Teacher video: A walking line

This archived Art and design scheme of work video introduces teachers to a drawing activity inspired by Paul Klee’s idea of “taking a line for a walk.”

Teacher video: Picture the poet

This archived Art and design scheme of work video introduces teachers to a self-portrait activity that combines continuous line drawing with text or poetry.

Teacher video: Drawing: Packaging collage

This archived Art and design scheme of work video introduces teachers to a lesson where Key stage 2 pupils create eye-catching collages using sweet wrappers.

Teacher video: Painting: Packaging collage

This archived Art and design scheme of work video introduces teachers to a lesson where Key stage 2 pupils scale up a small section of their sweet wrapper collage into a large painting.

Teacher video: How artists work

This archived Art and design scheme of work video introduces teachers to a lesson where Key stage 2 pupils create imaginative artworks based on original ideas.

Teacher video: Designing spaces

This archived Art and design scheme of work video introduces teachers to a lesson inspired by contemporary designers Morag Myerscough and Luke Morgan, who transform spaces through colour, shape, and typography.

Teacher video: Changing spaces part 1

This archived Art and design scheme of work video introduces teachers to a lesson inspired by the work of contemporary designers Morag Myerscough and Luke Morgan, who transform spaces using colour, shape, and typography.

Teacher video: South Africa – minims

This Music video introduces teachers to lesson two of the South Africa unit, where pupils learn to play two key repeating patterns from the topic song, ‘Put on Your Gumboots’. The lesson focuses first on developing good tuned percussion technique, then on learning the patterns by ear, before connecting them to staff notation.

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