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
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.