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Year 6 art

Year 6 art runs to 40 lessons across a 36 week year, for children aged 10 to 11 in Key Stage 2. Every lesson is listed below in teaching order.

The vocabulary a child meets this year includes street art, graffiti, stencil, mural, public space, typography, letter style, tag, outline, layering, gradient, drop shadow.

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 6 art lesson

In the order they are taught. 40 lessons.

Street Art: digital and new media

  1. Artists Who Create Street Art
  2. Sketching Street Art and Designing Graffiti Letters
  3. Developing Graffiti Letter Designs Using Digital Media
  4. Exploring Social Messages in Street Art
  5. Design a Street Art Mural
  6. Use Digital Techniques to Make Street Art Compositions

Urban Life: Drawing and design

  1. Investigating Urban Design
  2. Researching the Urban Environment
  3. Introduction to Design Thinking
  4. Design a Space to Play
  5. Design a Space for Urban Wildlife
  6. Design a Sustainable Transport System

Meaning and symbolism in art: drawing and painting

  1. Symbolism and Stories in Art, Craft and Design
  2. Drawing: Create a Character for a Story
  3. Develop Understanding of Symbolism: Collect and Draw Objects
  4. Plan a Story Artwork Including Character and Objects
  5. Develop a story: creating a scenic composition
  6. Complete a Story Artwork: Colour and Detail

War and conflict in art: textiles

  1. Art about Conflict
  2. Develop a Design for an Arpillera
  3. Creating Templates for Fabric from Drawings
  4. Stitch an Arpillera
  5. Explore Needle Felting
  6. Evaluate and Refine Your Arpillera

New Pop Art: sculpture and mixed-media

  1. The History of Pop Art
  2. Pop Art: In-Depth Artist Study
  3. Pop Art: Finding Sources and Researching an Idea
  4. Idea Development: Thinking Through Sketching
  5. Develop a Pop Art Piece
  6. Pop Art: Realise a Final Outcome

Creative careers: critical and contextual

  1. Festivals from Around the World
  2. Creative Careers: Graphic Designer
  3. Creative Careers: Content Creator
  4. Creative Careers: Fashion Designer
  5. Creative Careers: Makeup Artist
  6. Creative careers: games designer

Charting self: exploring portrait and identity

  1. Painting a Portrait with Colour and Feeling
  2. Layers and Symbols: Surface, Texture and Identity
  3. Patterns in Medieval Art
  4. Raised Portraits: Representation Through Dots and Relief

Teach the first art lesson free

StudyDen puts the next art lesson on the screen each morning, marks what your child types and writes the record as they go. The first lesson needs no card, then it is £29.99 a month for every child in the family.

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Common questions

What does Year 6 art cover?
Year 6 art runs to 40 lessons across a 36 week year, covering street art, graffiti, stencil, mural, public space, typography and more.
How many art lessons are in Year 6?
40 lessons, sequenced in teaching order across the school year.
How old is a child in Year 6?
Children in Year 6 are 10 to 11 years old during the school year in England and Wales.