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Year 5 art

Year 5 art runs to 40 lessons across a 36 week year, for children aged 9 to 10 in Key Stage 2. Every lesson is listed below in teaching order.

The vocabulary a child meets this year includes graphic design, typography, font, typeface, style, concrete poem, mental imagery, form, metaphor, simile, calligraphy, stroke.

These lessons are written by Oak National Academy, the government-funded curriculum body, and are free to anyone. StudyDen sequences them, marks the answers and keeps the record.

Every Year 5 art lesson

In the order they are taught. 40 lessons.

Lettering: graphic design

  1. Graphic Design: The Art of Letters
  2. Create a Concrete Poem
  3. Practise Calligraphic Techniques
  4. Learn to Draw Typographic Letterforms
  5. Design an Expressive Letterform
  6. Create Expressive Typographic Work

Photography and painting: facial expressions in portraiture

  1. Digital Photography: Creating a Series of Facial Expression Photographs
  2. Investigate Facial Expressions in Portraits
  3. Analyse a Facial Expression Through Drawing
  4. Drawing: Use Tone and Colour for Facial Expressions
  5. Painting: the Foundations of a Facial Expression
  6. Painting: Finalising a Facial Expression

Sculpture: make a mask

  1. Mask Designs: Research and Mood Board
  2. Design a Mask Using Sources
  3. Sculpture: Card Construction Techniques
  4. Creating a Mask Shape
  5. Mask Construction Using Modroc
  6. Surface Decoration and Completion of a Mask

Me in a box: drawing and sculpture

  1. Draft a Self-Portrait Concrete Poem
  2. Use Monoprinting to Create a Self-Portrait
  3. Me in a Box: Creating a Personal Art Box
  4. Plan for an Assemblage Sculpture
  5. Assemblage: Interior Box Design
  6. Assemblage: Exterior Box Design

Abstract art: drawing, printing and textiles

  1. Exploring Abstract Art
  2. Devise a Mark-Making Toolkit
  3. Create an Abstract Composition
  4. Make an Abstract Print Using a Paper-Cut Technique
  5. Design an Abstract Textile Panel
  6. Make an Abstract Felt Panel

Ceramics: cake culture

  1. Drawing: Observe and Draw Cakes Using Charcoal
  2. Sketching and Designing a Celebration Cake
  3. Experimenting with Clay for a Cake Sculpture
  4. Experiment with Coil and Pinch Pot Techniques
  5. Build a Clay Celebration Cake
  6. Ceramics: Finalising a Cake-Inspired Creation

Art for change: visual voices

  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

Each of the 7 units has a free printable Year 5 art worksheet, with the answers on a separate page.

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Common questions

What does Year 5 art cover?
Year 5 art runs to 40 lessons across a 36 week year, covering graphic design, typography, font, typeface, style, concrete poem and more.
How many art lessons are in Year 5?
40 lessons, sequenced in teaching order across the school year.
How old is a child in Year 5?
Children in Year 5 are 9 to 10 years old during the school year in England and Wales.