Art and design: Upper Key Stage 2
Use these lessons as a full scheme or adapt the skills and techniques to your chosen theme or topic
Useful resources for teaching Art and design
Useful resources for teaching Art and design
Choose your unit - Year 5 and Year 6
Year 5
Drawing from observation, creating prints, drawing from different perspectives and learning about the role of an architect.
Developing design, drawing, craft, painting and art appreciation skills – creating an invention, expanding on an observational drawing, using a poem to create a portrait and painting an enlarged section of a drawn collage
Exploring the meaning behind art – analyse the work of Banksy; making symmetry prints inspired by Rorschach, telling a story using emojis, reenacting a poignant war scene and taking inspiration from ceramic artist Odundo.
Designing to a given criteria; developing design ideas for a room interior, a coat of arms and a product to fit a given name
Year 6
Developing design, drawing, craft, painting and art appreciation skills; designing a hat, creating zentangle patterns and prints, painting in an impressionist style and exploring the work of Edward Hopper.
Exploring art with a message, looking at the works of Pablo Picasso and Käthe Kollwitz and through the mediums of graffiti, drawing, painting and sculpture, creating artworks with a message
Developing photography skills – composition, colour, light, abstract image, underlying messages and capturing and presenting images in different ways.
Creating a variety of still life pieces influenced by different artists, using a range of mediums and showcasing work in the form of a memory box.