Year 6 Visual Arts – Term 2 (WA Curriculum): Creating Meaningful Artworks for Our Community

What this unit covers

In Term 2, Year 6 Visual Arts in the WA Curriculum centres on the unit “Creating Meaningful Artworks for Our Community”.

Students will create artworks that express personal ideas and beliefs while considering their audience and incorporating feedback throughout the making process.

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 Ideas and Beliefs Through Visual Symbols
2. Developing Personal Viewpoints in Sketches and Studies
3. Creating Preliminary Artworks Based on Our Beliefs
4. Understanding Our Audience: Who Will See Our Art?
5. Gathering and Responding to Peer Feedback
6. Refining Artworks Using Audience Considerations
7. Finalizing Artworks with Visual Appeal and Clear Meaning
8. Presenting Our Beliefs: Sharing Finished Artworks with Our Audience

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.