KS1 & KS2 art and design curriculum

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Year 5

Art for change: visual voices

4 lessons

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Pupils explore how artists use visual storytelling to express powerful ideas about people and change. They create symbolic work such as collages and drawings, experiment with shadow and silhouettes in sculpture, and design bold placards that use colour, shape, words, and symbols to share messages.

Pupils will be ready to build on their knowledge by connecting memory, history, protest, and personal expression through more advanced techniques. Pupils can move beyond simply making art to considering how images carry meaning. This unit introduces more complex processes (carbon transfer, silhouette work, screen printing), which stretch their creative skills and prepare them for Key Stage 3.

  1. Unweaving, wrapping, transforming: textile sculpture
  2. Cut, colour, speak: pop art placards for protest
  3. Set the scene: collage, figure and symbol
  4. Shadow stories: silhouette, clay and light

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