Find out more about our art and design curriculum
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 Guide to our new curricula.
Curriculum explainer
We've recently 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.
When will all the resources be available?
We're releasing the new resources on a rolling basis over this academic year, as soon as they're ready. By autumn 2025, you'll have access to everything we're releasing for art and design.
You can to see what lessons we'll cover in each unit by clicking into the unit information on the unit sequence page.
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