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Contents
- Introduction
- Unit sequence
- Curriculum explainer
- Download
- More about our art and design curriculum
- Are all the art and design resources available?
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Introduction
We’ve been working closely with curriculum partners, subject experts and teachers and have released our interactive art and design curriculum plan. You can also download the plan to use offline to help with your planning.
Our curriculum partner for art and design is:
- art and design primary and secondary: National Society for Education in Art and Design (NSEAD)
Find out more about how to use our interactive curriculum plans and adapt them for your school in our help article: A guide to our curriculum plans.
Unit sequence
You can view our curriculum sequence using the unit sequence tab. It will display the units available for each year group, how many lessons are available in a unit and a recommended order.
All units have a description of 'why this, why now' and 'prior knowledge requirements' to help you consider the sequence of your current planning.
You can look at how threads develop across an entire phase or filter the view to see a single year group.
Curriculum explainer
We've added a curriculum explainer to our art and design curriculum to help you understand our thinking when we were making them with our curriculum partner.
For art and design this will help you understand:
- our overarching curriculum approach and the subject principles we used
- how our curriculum reflects the aims and purpose of the national curriculum
- information on delivering it in your school
- how we use threads to provide curriculum coherence.
Download
Download the curriculum plan to help you see all the content in one place, including the explainer, the units and the lessons.
The National curriculum document explains how the Oak art and design curriculum aligns to the national curriculum.
More about our art and design curriculum
In our blog: Art and design at Oak: Our approach to imagery and reference, our subject lead Emily Gopaul explains the diverse artist references used to bring the curriculum to life.
Are all the art and design resources available?
All of our lesson planning and teaching resources for primary and secondary maths are available on our website.
Our new units and lessons will all have a ‘New’ label beside them.
You can see what lessons we'll cover in each unit by clicking into the unit information on the unit sequence page.