Year 5 Visual Arts – Term 2 (WA Curriculum): Creating Art with Purpose and Voice

What this unit covers

In Term 2, Year 5 Visual Arts in the WA Curriculum centres on the unit “Creating Art with Purpose and Voice”.

Students explore how personal beliefs shape artistic expression while creating original artworks and sharing them with audiences for meaningful feedback.

Lesson sequence (8 lessons)

The unit breaks down into the following lesson-by-lesson sequence — each title below is a teachable lesson, in order:

1. Exploring Art That Tells Stories About What We Believe
2. Investigating How Artists Express Their Opinions Through Art
3. Planning Our Personal Belief Artwork
4. Creating Art That Shows What Matters to Us
5. Developing Our Artistic Voice Through Mixed Media
6. Refining Our Artwork Based on Peer Feedback
7. Preparing Our Art Exhibition for School Audience
8. Presenting Our Belief-Based Artworks and Reflecting on Audience Response

Curriculum codes in this unit

Content codes:

Reading the codes: WA codes (the ones starting with WA) pack the year level, learning area, strand and content number into one string, while the national Australian Curriculum v9 uses a different anatomy that starts with AC9 — same content family, different labels. Our complete WA Curriculum guide decodes both, character by character.

Planning notes for Term 2

WA terms run roughly 9–11 weeks, and in 2026 Term 2 runs from Monday 20 April to Friday 3 July — 11 weeks for WA public schools. With 8 lessons in this unit, that leaves breathing room for assessment, moderation and the weeks that disappear to carnivals, camps and public holidays — plan the assessable work to land two to three weeks before the end of term rather than in the final week.