- Complete national curriculum coverage
- Progressive scheme of work for Reception to Year 6
- Teacher and pupil demonstration videos
- 140+ art lesson plans easily adaptable to other topics
- Adaptive teaching and clear assessment criteria
How are knowledge and skills developed?
- Generating ideas and using sketchbooks: taking inspiration from a range of artists
- Making: developing drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, mixed media, craft techniques and sculpture skills
- Formal elements: exploring colour, form, line, pattern, shape, texture and tone
- Knowledge of artists: discovering artists' work and techniques
- Evaluation: critiquing their own work and that of others
Education Resources Awards Winner!
Art & design won an Education Resources Award (ERA) in the primary resource or equipment category.
What makes the Kapow Primary Art and design scheme special?
Art & design subject leader video
Find out about the aims and strands that make up the award-winning Art & design curriculum. Learn how the subject documentation can support you in your subject leader role.
Our approach
- 100+ CPD teacher videos to develop your subject knowledge
- 70+ pupil videos, demonstrating skills and techniques
- Integrated teaching of the formal elements of art (line, shape, form, tone, texture, pattern and colour)
- Progression of knowledge and skills across from Reception to Y6
- Knowledge organisers for all units
- Assessment materials
*NEW* Teacher visual art assessment tool
Our visual art assessment tool is designed to support teachers in assessing pupil’s practical skills and knowledge.
Available for all drawing and painting and mixed media units, the interactive document includes:
- Real examples produced by children using the scheme.
- Annotations highlighting observations or features within the work.
- A gallery overview providing examples of the work produced within a unit.
Are you an Art & Design subject leader?
Get organised and confident with our ready-made toolkit. Including Teacher Audits, Pupil Voice Surveys and an Ofsted Subject Audit to help you prepare. All this, plus National Curriculum Mapping and more.
What others say...
‘As a new Art leader, Kapow has saved me hours of planning and has provided me with different perspectives on teaching. The wide variety of resources has ensured that a vast majority of skills and techniques are covered. Moreover, the lessons are differentiated which allows all teachers to challenge the students in the class. I and all teachers at Portway Primary School are grateful to Kapow for the hard work and dedication.’
Arina Narbuntiene
Art subject leader
We’ve been using the Kapow scheme for just over a year now. I’m a primary teacher and art curriculum co-ordinator (non-art specialist), and I can honestly say that using the scheme gave me the knowledge and confidence to sit and talk in-depth to the OFSTED inspector about the teaching and learning of Art in our school. Thank you!
Claire Bodiam, St Thomas Canterbury
We use Kapow Art and Design and I have been really impressed with how this resource supports our non-specialist teachers. The range and diversity of the resources are great!
Gemma Whiley, Chetwynd Spencer Academy
To have the Art and D&T curriculums so easily available to all staff has improved their subject knowledge, confidence and in turn has helped the children to achieve great results!
Rachelle, Christ the King Catholic Primary
We are using Kapow for D&T and Art which are the subjects we identified as the staff’s weakest. Kapow has been a godsend in supporting teacher knowledge. Children’s outcomes in both subjects are far higher now. Sketchbooks are looking great in particular.
Cath Waterworth, Langley Primary School
Great quality resources and CPD for all. Teachers love the CPD so they spend less time researching topics to help teach. Teacher CPD means that topics are taught more effectively and with higher-quality content. Since using Kapow, many staff members have become more confident in the Art and DT that they teach.
Aisling Walsh, Haydock English Martyrs
As a whole staff, we feel Kapow offers everything we need: clear lesson plans, a broad range of materials and techniques, leadership documents, video examples. It has allowed us to teach engaging lessons and even those staff that disliked teaching art previously have said that they now love to teach this subject. Thank you.
Alice, St Mary’s Catholic Primary School
The lessons are broken down into small steps, which gives the children the opportunity to adapt and edit their work throughout. The lessons are easy to find and I love the presentation mode.
Cynthia, Paul-St Peter’s Catholic Primary School (Marlow)
The teacher videos are excellent as are the pupil videos. The explanations are explicit and I particularly like the example works from other schools.
Estelle Evans, St Thomas More Catholic Primary School
I am really enjoying using the Kapow Art and Design scheme. The children are so engaged during lessons and the development of their skills and knowledge is clear to see.
Hannah Winston, Bell Lane Primary School
