*Updated* Drawing: Expressing ideas
Exploring how artists express ideas and how they use scale to do so.
Introducing our new drawing units!
Kapow Primary is thrilled to announce updates to our drawing curriculum for Years 1 to 6.
This updated unit takes a fresh look at themes retained from the current drawing unit Drawing: Make my voice heard, with new engaging content designed to reinforce key skills, inspire creativity and support pupils’ artistic development. The unit includes clearer and more structured progression of knowledge and skills, broader exposure to diverse artists and new educational videos for both teachers and pupils.
In January 2026, the current Year 6 unit Drawing: Make my voice heard will be archived and replaced with this updated unit Drawing: Expressing ideas.
For more details on these updates, see the Art Progression of knowledge and skills (pages 29-32) and the Art Long term plan (pages 18-19).
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Identify key features of street art and murals.
- Discuss the intention and impact of street art.
- Use various shading techniques to show texture, tone, form and depth.
- Apply one point perspective in their work.
- Enlarge a drawing by scaling using an accurately drawn grid.
- Show an understanding of perspective, scale and proportion with a level of accuracy across their design.
- Choose appropriate materials for their design and explain their choices and intention.
- Use space effectively to enhance visual impact of their graffiti tag.
Suggested prior learning
*Updated* Drawing: Depth, emotion and movement
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Lessons
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 a street-art-inspired piece
Optional: Every picture tells a story
Key skills
Generating ideas:
- Drawing upon their
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Key knowledge
Making skills:
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Key vocabulary
depth
graffiti
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Unit resources
Vocabulary display: Drawing: Expressing ideas through art
A display version of the vocabulary from the unit 'Drawing: Expressing ideas through art'.
Knowledge organiser: Drawing: Expressing ideas through art
Aimed at pupils, two pages providing key facts and definitions from the unit ‘Drawing: Expressing ideas through art’.
Subject resources
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Cross-curricular opportunities
None.
