Skill: characters
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Lesson 1: Drawing expressions
Developing character pictures. Applying skills with line and mark making to add expression and detail.
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Lesson 1: Emotion Families Lesson 2: Calming Strategies Lesson 3: Conversation Pals Lesson 4: Sharing is Caring Lesson 5: The Power of Positive Words
Introductory Lesson: Setting Classroom Rules Lesson 1: Listening to Feelings Lesson 2: Calming Toolbox Lesson 3: Communicating Feelings Lesson 4: Listen to learn Lesson 5: Mistakes are okay
Introductory Lesson: Setting Classroom Rules Lesson 1: A mix of feelings Lesson 2: Self-regulation Lesson 3: Setting Boundaries Lesson 4: Perseverance
Introductory Lesson: Setting Classroom Rules Lesson 1: Emotion Detectives Lesson 2: Regulation stations Lesson 3: Practice Makes Progress Lesson 4: Respectful Communication Lesson 5: Compromising
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Cambridge Primary Art & Design
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Unit 1: Drawing: Make your mark Unit 2: Painting and mixed media: Colour splash Unit 3: Sculpture and 3D: Paper play Unit 4: Craft and design: Woven wonders Unit 5: Art and design skills Unit 6: Making connections: Landscapes using different media Unit 1: Drawing: Tone and texture Unit 2: Painting and mixed media: Life in colour Unit 3: Sculpture and 3D: Clay houses Unit 4: Craft and design: Map it out Unit 5: Art and design skills Unit 6: Making connections: Superheroes View all Units
Unit 1: Drawing: Developing drawing skills Unit 2: Painting and mixed media: Prehistoric painting Unit 3: Sculpture and 3D: Abstract shape and space Unit 4: Craft and design: Ancient Egyptian scrolls Unit 5: Art and design skills Unit 6: Making connections: Shadow puppets Unit 1: Drawing with realism: Exploring tone, texture and proportion Unit 2: Painting and mixed media: Light and dark Unit 3: Sculpture and 3D: Mega materials Unit 4: Craft and design: Fabric of nature Unit 5: Art and design skills Unit 6: Making connections: Exploring geometric patterns View all Units
Unit 1: Drawing: Expressive drawing and mark making Unit 2: Painting and mixed media: Portraits Unit 3: Sculpture and 3D: Interactive installation Unit 4: Craft and design: Architecture Unit 5: Art and design skills Unit 6: Making connections: Imagining the future Unit 1: Drawing: Expressing ideas through art Unit 2: Painting and mixed media: Artist study Unit 3: Sculpture and 3D: Making memories Unit 4: Craft and design: Photo opportunity Unit 5: Art and design skills Unit 6: Making connections: Maya art View all Units
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Lesson 1: Exploring line Lesson 2: Musical lines Lesson 3: Exploring shapes Lesson 4: Shape in art Lesson 5: Klee portraits
Lesson 1: Making colours Lesson 2: Painting with colour Lesson 3: Printing with paint Lesson 4: Exploring colour mixing Lesson 5: Clarice Cliff plates
Lesson 1: Tube towers Lesson 2: 3D drawings Lesson 3: Tree of life Lesson 4: Creating a giant spider model Lesson 5: Painting a giant spider
Lesson 1: Is it art? Lesson 2: Wool wrapping Lesson 3: Exploring thread Lesson 4: Warp and weft Lesson 5: Fibre art
Lesson 1: Observational pencil drawings Lesson 2: Drawing faces Lesson 3: Painting to music Lesson 4: Cutting skills Lesson 5: Paper animal sculptures
Lesson 1: Composition Lesson 2: Beach textures Lesson 3: Shades and colours of the sea Lesson 4: Painting over texture Lesson 5: Beach collage
Lesson 1: Exploring drawing materials Lesson 2: Understanding and creating texture Lesson 3: Exploring tonal shading Lesson 4: Sketching and refining a drawing Lesson 5: Creating an observational drawing
Lesson 1: Colour fun Lesson 2: Texture hunt Lesson 3: Making textures Lesson 4: Collage creation Lesson 5: Developing detail
Lesson 1: Exploring clay Lesson 2: Pinch pots Lesson 3: Applying skills in clay Lesson 4: Designing a tile Lesson 5: House tiles
Lesson 1: Creative journey Lesson 2: Relief maps Lesson 3: Abstract maps Lesson 4: Print possibilities Lesson 5: Creating artwork
Lesson 1: Junk model animals Lesson 2: 3D colour drawings Lesson 3: Repeating patterns Lesson 4: Roller coaster ride Lesson 5: Drawing for fun
Lesson 1: Drawing expressions Lesson 2: Drawing characters Lesson 3: Understanding pattern Lesson 4: Creating a superhero Lesson 5: Creating a superhero background
Lesson 1: See like an artist Lesson 2: Shading Lesson 3: Take a closer look Lesson 4: Imagination in bloom Lesson 5: Paper to pixels
Lesson 1: Exploring prehistoric art Lesson 2: Charcoal animals Lesson 3: Prehistoric palette Lesson 4: Painting on the cave wall Lesson 5: Hands on a cave wall
Lesson 1: Structural shapes Lesson 2: Constructing in 3D Lesson 3: Seeing space Lesson 4: Abstract sculpture Lesson 5: Surface decoration
Lesson 1: Exploring Ancient Egyptian art Lesson 2: Designing scrolls Lesson 3: Making paper Lesson 4: Scroll making Lesson 5: Making zines
Lesson 1: Botanical drawing Lesson 2: Botanical prints Lesson 3: Abstract flowers Lesson 4: Botanical collage Lesson 5: Art in different forms
Lesson 1: Notan Lesson 2: Drawing a storyboard Lesson 3: Designing shadow puppets Lesson 4: Making shadow puppets Lesson 5: Performing a shadow puppet play
Lesson 1: 3D pencil drawings Lesson 2: Texture and tone Lesson 3: Understanding proportion Lesson 4: Creating an effective composition Lesson 5: Using texture, tone and proportion in drawing
Lesson 1: Tints and shades Lesson 2: Three dimensions Lesson 3: Painting techniques Lesson 4: Composition Lesson 5: Still life
Lesson 1: From 2D to 3D Lesson 2: Soap sculptures Lesson 3: Working with wire Lesson 4: Shadow sculpture Lesson 5: Recycle and recreate
Lesson 1: Inspired by the rainforest Lesson 2: One picture, four views Lesson 3: Creating patterns Lesson 4: Repeating patterns Lesson 5: Fabric design
Lesson 1: Mechanical compositions Lesson 2: Wax resist Lesson 3: Power prints Lesson 4: Relief sculptures Lesson 5: Exploring impasto
Lesson 1: Geometric patterns around the world Lesson 2: Seed of Life Lesson 4: Symmetrical flip patterns Lesson 3: Tessellations Lesson 5: Geometric tile prints
Lesson 1: Expressing movement Lesson 2: Showing emotion through line Lesson 3: Showing depth through mark making Lesson 4: Composition for printing Lesson 5: Printing
Lesson 1: Poem portrait Lesson 2: Developing drawings Lesson 3: Self-portraits Lesson 4: Changing faces Lesson 5: Mixed media portraits
Lesson 1: What is installation art? Lesson 2: Space and scale Lesson 3: Everyday amazing Lesson 4: Creative concepts Lesson 5: Viewer experience
Lesson 1: Observational drawing - houses Lesson 2: House monoprint Lesson 3: Be an architect Lesson 4: Friedensreich Hundertwasser Lesson 5: Monuments
Lesson 1: Expressive portraits Lesson 2: Exploring materials Lesson 3: Sustainable sculptures Lesson 4: Art from everyday objects Lesson 5: Textured portraits
Lesson 1: Space imagery and retrofuturism Lesson 2: Drawing decisions Lesson 3: Teis Albers Lesson 4: A vision of the future Lesson 5: Revisiting ideas
Lesson 1: What is street art? Lesson 2: How do artists use one-point perspective? Lesson 3: Scaling up Lesson 4: Planning street art Lesson 5: Making street art
Lesson 1: Lisa Ericson Lesson 2: Animal paintings Lesson 3: Fiona Rae Lesson 4: Carl Larsson Lesson 5: Watercolour scenes
Lesson 1: Exploring self Lesson 2: Relief sculptures Lesson 3: Memory museum Lesson 4: Memory sculpture Lesson 5: Complete and reflect
Lesson 1: Photomontage Lesson 2: Macro photography Lesson 3: Digital art Lesson 4: Recreating paintings Lesson 5: Photorealistic self-portraits
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Unit 1: Getting started: Digital skills for Computing Unit 2: Computers around us Unit 3: Algorithms unplugged Unit 4: Programming: Bee-Bots Unit 5: Introduction to data Unit 6: Integrated project: Rocket to the Moon Unit 1: How computers work Unit 3: Block coding Unit 4: Data detectives Unit 5: Introduction to networks Unit 6: Integrated project: Robots View all Units
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Lesson 1: What is a computer? Lesson 2: Logging in and exploring Sketchpad Lesson 3: Creating digital artwork with patterns Lesson 4: Exploring the keyboard Lesson 5: Using a word processor
Lesson 1: What do computers look like? Lesson 2: What can computers do? Lesson 3: Inputs and outputs Lesson 4: What else can computers do? Lesson 5: What is the internet?
Lesson 1: Command games Lesson 2: Computing commands Lesson 3: Following an algorithm Lesson 4: Creating algorithms Lesson 5: Fixing algorithms
Lesson 1: Classroom robots Lesson 2: Exploring Bee-Bots Lesson 2: Exploring digital Bee-Bots Lesson 3: Programming Bee-Bots Lesson 3: Programming digital Bee-Bots Lesson 4: Bee-Bot mazes Lesson 4: Digital Bee-Bot game Lesson 5: Bee-Bot mysteries
Lesson 1: Finding answers Lesson 2: Collecting data Lesson 3: Sorting data Lesson 4: Questions for data Lesson 5: Data tables
Lesson 1: Meet Nina and Luca Lesson 2: Build a rocket Lesson 3: Could a robot build a rocket? Lesson 4: Rocket data Lesson 5: Send a Bee-Bot to the Moon
Lesson 1: Hardware and software Lesson 2: Input and output devices Lesson 3: Different computing devices Lesson 4: Jobs computers do well Lesson 5: Real and fictional robots
Lesson 1: Exploring code Lesson 2: Tinkering with MakeCode Lesson 3: Creating icons Lesson 4: Building a program in MakeCode Lesson 5: Debugging a program
Lesson 1: Zoo data Lesson 2: Animal pictograms Lesson 3: Our favourite places Lesson 4: Presenting data Lesson 5: Choosing the right question
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Discover: Trying something new Take notice: My surroundings Connect: Similarities and differences Give: Kind words Move: Being animals
Understanding myself: Making mistakes Take notice: Sound Connect: Understanding others Give: Sharing Move: Gardening
Discover: Perseverance Take notice: Colour expression Connect: Compliments Give: Generosity Move: Nature walk
Discover: Practice makes progress Take notice: Making a difference Connect: Shared interests Give: Appreciation Move: Motion detection
Discover: Resilience Take notice: My thoughts Connect: Pen pals Give: Giving to my community Move: Making a beat
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