Our approach to the mixed-age Art curriculum 

The mixed-age long-term plan provides a detailed overview of Kapow Primary’s Art and design mixed-age scheme of work, designed to support teaching in EYFS, KS1 and KS2. The plan organises Art and design units into a two-year cycle, enabling teachers to confidently deliver a well-structured, engaging scheme, aligned with the National curriculum.

What does Kapow Primary’s Art and design mixed-age plan contain?

The plan outlines the progression of skills and knowledge in Art and design, ensuring that pupils build upon their learning each year in a spiral curriculum.

It covers the statutory requirements of the National curriculum, details the art skills and knowledge taught, offers guidance on primary art assessment and provides information to support the implementation of Kapow Primary’s Art and design scheme within mixed-age settings.

How does Kapow Primary’s Art and design scheme develop knowledge and skills?

This document provides a suggested long-term plan for mixed-age year groups, ensuring a clear pathway for pupil learning. Progression is broken down into the following key areas:

• Generating ideas – encouraging autonomy; developing creativity; generating original ideas through experimentation.
• Making skills – becoming familiar with the formal elements of art; developing practical knowledge of a variety of media and materials; exploring and testing out different creative methods, tools and techniques.
• Evaluating and analysing – discussing art using appropriate language to analyse a creative work; considering how art is studied, discussed and judged; examining what art is and why people make it.
• Knowledge of artists – exploring traditional and contemporary artists, craft-makers and designers from diverse communities; studying the materials, processes and meanings of these artists.
• Using sketchbooks – documenting and trying out different ideas and media; evaluating and evolving the children’s artwork.

What other Kapow Primary resources support mixed-age primary art teaching?

If your school organises mixed-age classes differently from Years 1/2, 3/4 and 5/6, find suggestions for organising our units in our alternative mixed-age planning guidance.