Art and design

Complete national curriculum coverage
Progressive scheme of work for Reception to Year 6
Teacher CPD videos
Pupil demonstration videos
Adaptive teaching and clear assessment criteria

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Art and design

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

Key supporting resources

All subject leader resources

Discover our Art and design scheme of work

See how our scheme supports teachers with clear guidance and pupil videos, helping you teach Art & Design with confidence while inspiring creativity in your class.

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Welcome to Art and design

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Bringing Art to life at Montem Academy

Montem Academy’s pupils are more inspired than ever, with clear progression in their artistic skills. Kapow Primary’s structured lessons and engaging resources have helped teachers feel more confident, ensuring high-quality art education that nurtures creativity and growth.

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See how Montem transformed Art!

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Education Resources Awards Winner!

Art & design won an Education Resources Award (ERA) in the primary resource or equipment category.

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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.

Watch the assessment tool introduction video

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.

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Browse Art and design collections

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Art and design: Christmas lessons

What others say...

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

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

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)

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

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.

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Aisling Walsh, Haydock English Martyrs

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.

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Cath Waterworth, Langley Primary School

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!

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Rachelle, Christ the King Catholic Primary

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

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