Art and design

Help using Oak

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Year 5

Year 6

Primary

Year 7

Year 8

Year 9

Year 10

Year 11

Secondary

Who we are

Meet the team

Oak's curricula

Get involved

Contact us

About us

AI experiments

Curriculum

Plan a lesson

Blogs

Webinars

Help

Guidance

Computing

Cooking and nutrition

Design and technology

Drama

English

Financial education

Geography

History

Maths

Music

Physical education

Religious education

RSHE (PSHE)

Science

French

Spanish

Expressive arts and design

Literacy

Personal, social and emotional development

Understanding the world

EYFS

Citizenship

German

Latin

Biology

Chemistry

Citizenship (Core)

Citizenship (GCSE)

Combined science

Computing (Core)

Computer Science (GCSE)

Physical education (Core)

Physical education (GCSE)

Physics

Religious education (GCSE)

Introduction to collage and experimentation with paper

Experiment with layering to create 4 collaged cupcakes

Experiment with fine-line drawing and pattern to create 20 cake ideas

Create surfaces to be used for collage (in next lesson)

Create a 2D collaged cake stand using your textured surfaces

Collage

What are textiles?

What is weaving?

What are sewing and embroidery?

What is applique?

How can I embellish my textiles?

Textiles

Investigate an architect

Draw buildings using simple perspective

Tonally shade architecture

Develop a collaborative group design

Make an architectural 3D model

Present a group design proposal

In this unit, pupils investigate an architect and learn to draw buildings in an architectural style. They may work in groups to respond to an architectural design challenge and design and make a solution in two and three dimensions, before making a group presentation.

Architecture: drawing and 3D design

Photograph a local landmark

Research and photograph a local landmark

Design a local landmark low relief tile

Create a low relief ceramic tile: trace and transfer a design

Create a low relief ceramic tile: transfer and carve

Create a low relief ceramic tile: decorate and evaluate

Pupils will learn about composition in landscape, and respond to a local landmark. They will use this knowledge to interpret different viewpoints and perspectives in their own unique way. They will develop these studies into a low relief ceramic tile, using a variety of clay techniques.

Views of a local landmark: ceramics

Photograph a landscape in your local area

Analyse a local landscape through the formal elements

Explore a variety of painting techniques

Identifying and applying the influence of other artists

Lay the foundations for a local landscape painting

Realise the details of a local landscape painting

Pupils will study a local landscape artist and make photographic records of natural or park scenes. This could include natural elements within a built environment. They will learn some basic landscape painting techniques and apply them to their own personal landscape painting.

Local landscape : painting

Art about dreams

Illustrate a piece of text about dreams

Make a portrait of a sleeping person

Add tone to your sleeping portrait

Surreal dreamscape collage

Design a digital dreamscape

This unit explores how dreams have inspired artists, especially the Surrealists. Pupils will illustrate a piece of dream text, then learn how to draw and shade a sleeping portrait, before transforming it into a digital design.

Dream portraits: drawing and digital design

Observe and record microorganisms

Tonal studies of microorganisms

Scrap fabric microrganism collage

Monoprint onto a collaged surface

Creating monoprinted papers using different textures and surfaces

Make an abstract composition

Pupils will investigate micro-organisms & create observational drawings in pencil, charcoal and watercolour paint, before creating prints & pictures in mixed media collage.

Hidden worlds: collage and mixed media

Drawing natural forms in an abstract style

An artist's respond to plastic waste

Recording environmental textures

Art that shows nature’s resilience

Imagining a better future

Pupils will look at the theme of fossils as a starting point for this unit. They make and abstract a drawing of a fossil using chalk pastels and charcoal. Pupils design and make a 3D fossil of the future sculpture using the casting process and design principles.

Recording, noticing, and caring: responding to nature and the planet

Wrapping a sculpture: hidden stories

Masque: sculpture, clothes and messages

Clay beads: meanings and patterns

Printing symbols: banners and identity

Made in collaboration with October Gallery this unit brings together diverse visual languages from across time and place, encouraging children to see wearable art not simply as adornment, but as a powerful form of communication, one that celebrates identity, and gives voice to stories that matter.

Clothes and culture: wearable art

Art and design

Choose a previously released unit (2)

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

Choose a unit (7)