Description
Teachers preparing SS1 Visual Arts can use this 2026 scheme as a term-by-term roadmap of the curriculum, with each teaching week tied to defined content and measurable outcomes. The content here is specific to Visual Arts: representative areas include Introduction to Drawing, Improvisation Techniques and Indigenous Nigerian Artforms.
The sequence balances cultural understanding with making, performance, design and creative practice, allowing assessment to include both knowledge and practical expression.
SS1 Visual Arts term-by-term coverage
First Term: Introduces Introduction to Visual Arts, Introduction to Drawing, Introduction to Different Artforms, Manual Art Portfolio: Materials Used in Manual Portfolios, and Art Materials, Tools and Equipment.
Second Term: Builds on that foundation through Safety in the Art Studio, Improvisation Techniques, Art Techniques, Introduction to Colour and Colour Relationships, and Nature/Life Study: Elements to Observe.
Third Term: Concludes with Abstract Art, Indigenous Nigerian Artforms, Global Artforms, Famous Contemporary Nigerian and Foreign Artists, and Entrepreneurship Skills and Process.
Curriculum themes: Fundamentals of Visual Arts; Materials and tools; Improvisation; Terminologies and Techniques; Artistic principles; Figurative and non-figurative art; Indigenous and global art; entrepreneurship
What teachers get in this Visual Arts scheme
- First, Second and Third Term coverage organised into a coherent senior-secondary teaching sequence
- Curriculum themes translated into weekly content, competencies, skills and examinable objectives
- Practical, analytical or application-based activities where the subject requires them
- A planning structure suitable for teachers, heads of department, supervision and assessment
Whether you are planning one term or the full session, the resource gives you the SS1 Visual Arts scheme of work in one consistent three-term structure.
Related HeadTeacher.ng resources: SS1 New National Curriculum PDFs • SS1 Home Management Scheme of Work 2026 • Primary 4 Cultural and Creative Arts Scheme of Work 2026
Developed and published by HeadTeacher.ng as a curriculum implementation resource for Nigeria’s revised curriculum.








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