This long-term plan is suitable for use for schools following the original Kapow Primary Art and design scheme. We recommend that schools no longer use this scheme and transition to our revised Art scheme.
The mixed-age long-term plan for Art and design is for schools to teach Art and design to mixed-age classes. The plan shows how the scheme of work fulfils the national curriculum requirements for KS1 and KS2 Art and design and includes an overview of our units and lessons and guidance on the order of teaching.
We also offer:
- A standard Long-term plan for schools that teach Art and design most weeks of the school year.
- A Long-term plan — condensed for schools that teach Art and design for 18 weeks in the school year.
- A combined plan for schools that alternate the teaching of Art and design with Design and technology.
To download our standard Long-term plan, click on the orange button below.
Please note that this long-term plan has recently been updated. See pages 4–5 of this document for more information.
A 20-week condensed Long-term plan focussing on the essential skills and knowledge in the Music curriculum in a shorter timescale.
At Kapow Primary we understand that curriculum time is always tight in primary schools. Therefore, we have created a condensed curriculum version of our Long-term plan to help those schools who want to ensure coverage of the national curriculum, without dedicating an hour a week to Music.
We have ensured there is a range of musical styles covered and that the interrelated dimensions of music (pulse, pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure, appropriate musical notation) are given similar attention in terms of coverage. This version of our long-term plan could be used if teaching Music in a two-week, half-termly cycle or through blocking the foundation subjects. Or it could be used to relieve pressure on curriculum time.
Please note that not all the skills and knowledge from our Music: Progression of skills and knowledge document will be covered. If following the condensed curriculum, see Music: Progression of skills and knowledge — condensed for further details of the skills and knowledge covered.
Please note that some of our current units are being refreshed for 2024/25. For more information, see pages 3 and 4 of this document.
Use this long-term plan alongside Kapow Primary’s original Art and design scheme to support your delivery of the primary Art and design curriculum across the school.
As well as giving oversight of the Art and design scheme, this document contains information including:
- How this scheme helps your school meet the statutory requirements for Art and design.
- The organisation of the scheme into the five key strands of learning: making skills; generating ideas; formal elements; knowledge of artists; evaluating, and how these are spread throughout the units.
- A spiral curriculum and how it is utilised within the scheme.
- Ordering and teaching the units.
- Each individual unit across every year, including a brief synopsis of learning.
- Other useful documentation to support you in planning your Art and design scheme of work including a curriculum overview, progression of skills document, an equipment list and a vocabulary progression.
Kapow Primary’s archived Long-term plan for Art and design is for schools teaching Art and design most weeks throughout the school year. Each year group is allocated 4 units across the year, which ensure pupils acquire key skills and knowledge required to make progress.
The plan shows how the scheme of work fulfils the national curriculum requirements for KS1 and KS2 Art and design and includes an overview of our units and lessons and guidance on the order of teaching.
To download our standard long-term plan, click on the orange button below.
We suggest that most schools should use our revised Art and design scheme of work for the most up to date content.
This document refers to our ARCHIVED Art and design scheme, which is no longer maintained to reflect curriculum changes or publishing updates. We recommend that you use the up to date Art & design and D&T Combined plan found here.
This combined Art and design and DT long-term plan is suitable for use with our now ARCHIVED Art and design scheme. We recommend that schools no longer use this scheme and transition to our up-to-date Art & design scheme.
Kapow Primary’s combined, long-term plan for two national curriculum subjects: Art and design, and Design and technology. The plan is based on our schemes of work for Art and design and Design and technology and is for schools that alternate between the subjects each half term.
The plan fulfils the essential requirements of the KS1 and KS2 National Curriculum for Art and design and Design and technology. Each block is hyperlinked to the recommended units of lessons and contains brief descriptions of the lessons and key learning points.
We also provide a standard Art and design: Long-term plan and a standard Design and technology: Long-term plan for schools that teach the subjects throughout the year.
