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Introduction to printmaking

Exploring printing with found objects

Making your own stamps for printmaking

Making a collagraph print

Reviewing and presenting our printmaking work

Printmaking

Introduction to sculpture

Exploring joining techniques for sculpture

Designing and making our own sculpture.

Adapting and reviewing our sculpture work

Presenting our sculpture work

Sculpture

Profile portraits in art

Draw a profile portrait

Take and edit a portrait photograph

Create an identity mood board

Make a print profile portrait

Relief sculpture profile portrait

This is a profile portrait drawing unit that incorporates photographing and drawing the face in profile, printing and relief sculpture. Pupils will not only draw the face, but celebrate what is unique about themselves incorporating this into their art.

I am beautiful: drawing and mixed media

Drawing and painting my dream building

Drawing buildings using charcoal

Drawing like an architect

Sustainable architecture

Design and build a home using recycled materials

Make a monoprint of a building

A diverse range of approaches will be used in this unit to investigate houses in both an artistic and an architectural style. Drawing and printing techniques will be explored before pupils investigate how architects design environmentally friendly houses or flats, then design their own eco-home.

Our spaces: drawing and printing

Representing relationships

Connections through photography

People that are important to me

Digital printing

Creating an armature figure

Sculpting Myself

This unit examines the pupils’ sense of self and explores their relationships with others. They will make clay figures, small drawings and prints as well as collecting photos. They will design and make sculptures from a wire armature and masking tape, before combining their elements.

Me, myself and others: clay sculpture

Imaginative memory drawing

Respond to artists' visions of paradise

Invent a collaborative paradise island

Construct a paradise island base

Make a papier-maché paradise island

Decorate a papier-mâché paradise island

This unit develops pupils’ ability to draw expressively and imaginatively in a range of media. They will investigate how and why artists create their art, before designing and sculpting an imaginary paradise island either individually or collaboratively.

Paradise island: drawing and sculpture

Respond to nocturnal animals through modelling materials

Make a silhouette scene

Create a silhouette plaque

Sculpture: make a simple clay animal

Create a background using reclaimed materials

Reclaimed materials: finalising a mixed-media piece

Pupils will learn about art made from reclaimed materials. They will explore this theme to make their own animal art in two and three dimensions, applying core art skills and craft techniques.

Reclaimed materials: drawing and sculpture

Maps as art

Personal geography

Places and migration

Abstract expression

Layering and mixed-media

In this unit, pupils explore how maps can be used in a different way by artists, to tell stories about who we are and where we’ve been. They will create their own personal maps, think about identity, places  and people that are imporant to them and journeys they make.

Maps to explore identity, journeys, and imagination.

Cutting stories with paper

Create a history map

Clay travellers: figures from the Silk Road

Collage sails: pattern and identity

Made in collaboration with October Gallery, this unit explores how art shares stories across time and place as pupils cut, sculpt and collage maps into textured journeys of movement, exchange, identity and belonging.

Art that travels: stories, land and journeys

Art and design

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These lessons will be removed by the end of the Spring Term 2026.

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