Year 5 Art and design: Design for a Purpose

In this topic, children are faced with the challenge of having to design to a specific criteria or specification, developing design ideas for a room interior, a coat of arms and product to fit a given name, children learn to draw inspiration from different sources and use a range of techniques to experiment with their different concepts

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Please note

This unit has now been replaced by the Year 5 unit Sculpture: Interactive installation. Kapow no longer updates these lessons, and they may not reflect the national curriculum or current guidance. They remain a permanent part of your subscription and will continue to be available for reference and use. We recommend that you explore the new versions of the lessons.

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Lesson 1: Coat of arms

After learning about how the coat of arms originated and how they are used today, children create a design of their own.

Lesson 2: Designing spaces

Working to a specific brief, children work collaboratively to create a design for an empty room

Lesson 3: Changing spaces

Children use cut out shapes to help them experiment and develop their design ideas

Lesson 4: What’s in a name?

Pupils are given a word as a product name, which they then devise a product idea for

Lesson 5: Adverts

Children create and then present a pitch to sell their product

Assess your pupils

Assessment resources for use at the start of the unit to assess where pupils are in their learning and at the end of the unit to assess progress. Go to assessment resources