This Art and design video demonstrates a street art activity where learners bring their planned ideas to life. The activity encourages bold mark-making, creative expression and confident use of materials.
year: Stage 6
Learner video: Planning street-art-inspired design
This Art and design video demonstrates a street art design activity that uses drawing to express a personal message. The activity encourages thoughtful planning, bold composition and creative use of perspective and visual features.
Teacher video: Supporting ideas
This Art and design video supports teachers in guiding learners as they plan their own street art designs. With an emphasis on independence and ownership, learners make decisions about composition, materials and techniques, considering their message and audience.
Learner video: How to scale up using a grid
This Art and design video demonstrates the grid method, a technique for accurately enlarging drawings. The activity encourages careful observation, understanding of proportion and confident scaling from sketchbook to larger surfaces.
Learner video: How to draw from a one-point perspective
This Art and design video demonstrates one-point perspective, a drawing technique that creates the illusion of depth. The lesson encourages structured practice, spatial awareness and creative scene composition using vanishing points and scale.
Learner video: Earth’s big challenges
This Art and design video introduces street art as a way to share powerful messages and raise awareness of global issues. The activity encourages bold imagery, personal expression and creative exploration of themes like environmental issues.
Teacher video: Unit introduction
This Art and design video introduces teachers to the concept of street art, exploring its role as a form of public expression. The lesson helps learners consider different opinions around graffiti and murals, introducing key vocabulary and encouraging discussion about the purpose and impact of art in public spaces.
Art and design: Long-term plan
Our approach
This printable PDF document provides a detailed overview of the Kapow Art and design scheme of work, designed to support the teaching of the Cambridge Primary Art & Design curriculum across Stages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. It helps teachers confidently deliver a well-structured, engaging and aligned art scheme.
What does Kapow’s Art and design long-term plan contain?
The long-term plan outlines the units and objectives covered in Art and design.
It covers the requirements of the Cambridge Primary Art & Design curriculum, offers guidance on assessment and provides information to support the implementation of the scheme within your school setting.
Can I adapt the long-term plan?
All schools have different needs. As such, units 1-4 in all stages can be taught in different orders or moved to align with your school’s specific requirements.
It is advised that Unit 5 (Art and design skills) and Unit 6 (Making connections) are taught towards the end of the year as they are designed to support learners in consolidating and applying skills from previous units.
Teacher skills video: Drawing materials
This Art and design video supports teachers in delivering a comprehensive introduction to a range of drawing materials, focusing on their properties, uses and classroom suitability. From pencils and graphite sticks to charcoal, wax crayons, oil pastels and soft pastels, the video explores how each medium can support children’s growing understanding of tone, texture and mark making.
