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Stage 1
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
Stage 2
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
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Stage 3
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
Stage 4
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
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Stage 5
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
Stage 6
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
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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: Painting: 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 3: Tessellations
Lesson 4: Symmetrical flip patterns
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
Lesson 1: Graffiti tags
Lesson 2: Drawing with a camera
Lesson 3: Photo collages
Lesson 4: Expressive painting
Lesson 5: Adding texture and depth
Lesson 1: Experimental mark making
Lesson 2: Symbolic art
Lesson 3: Chiaroscuro
Lesson 4: Maya face sculptures
Lesson 5: Making clay sculptures
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Unit 1: Drawing: Make your mark
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Exploring line and shape; working and experimenting with different materials through observational and collaborative pieces.
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Unit 2: Painting and mixed media: Colour splash
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Exploring colour mixing through paint play, using a range of tools to paint on different surfaces and creating…
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Unit 3: Sculpture and 3D: Paper play
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Creating simple 3D shapes and structures using familiar materials, learners develop skills in manipulating paper and card, folding,…
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Unit 4: Craft and design: Woven wonders
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Learning fibre art skills such as plaiting, threading, knotting and weaving to create three-dimensional woven artworks inspired by…
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Unit 5: Art and design skills
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Art and design skills units offer an opportunity to apply learning from previous units in different contexts. In…
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Unit 6: Making connections: Landscapes using different media
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Making connections units offer an opportunity to bring the different elements of art together to create a project…
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