I created this to use for an interview lesson with a group of Year 9 boys. I had a lot of fun teaching the lesson, all students were engaged, learning and making progress… and I got the job. Includes powerpoint & lesson plan. Just add: paper, markers, wire, masking tape, scissors/wire cutters and students Learning Objectives & Outcomes: -To understand and reflect on the purpose of a portrait, using key terms -To create an abstract, dimensional portrait, developing problem-solving skills while working with wire We look at a classic Velazques and compare it with Bacon’s reinterpretation Key words: -line -continuous line drawing -sculpture -shape -abstract -portrait Enjoy!

Feedback cards offering specific targets for improvement for 3 different levels of challenge.

Introduce your students to Keith Haring's Art and have them creatively reinvent the middle of one of his designs. -I recommend printing out copies of the slide shown for students to work into. -I've used this lesson as a baseline Creativity Test for Year 7

Use the Assessment sheet & powerpoint to help your students push themselves further in their art lessons.

Explains what D.I.R.T. time is and how to make it an effective practice at your school.

100% Ready to download, print out and use! Several hours of focused tasks to keep your cohort busy all summer all on one page! -10 different summer Art challenges to inspire, engage and enthuse your students towards success in their Art GCSE. -Each is linked to the Art GCSE Assessment Objectives -Hyperlinks to helpful websites and practical tasks -Build cultural capital, photography and drawing skills, experimentation and much more!

Use this resource to help your students create level 8 and 9 artist research pages for the 2023 exam theme of LOCK! Includes: Checklist for what is required in an artist research SEMI writing framework & an example of how to use it Visual & written exemplars Tips for top marks Success Criteria for each grade- 9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1… A choice of several relevant artists that your students will like.

Use this resource to get your GCSE students interested in and researching Artists to earn marks for Assessment Objective 1. Featuring: -Wide range of artists to choose from (with an intro blurb to each) -Breakdown of Assessment Objective 1 -Criteria for Success

Includes: Everything you need to get your students to design and create their own wire insect sculpture. -3 powerpoints to take students through the stages of the unit: Draw/Design/Plan/Execute/Evaluate -Clear instructions & lesson objectives -Assessment Criteria -Key Vocabulary -Homework

Use this easy powerpoint template to improve questioning in the classroom. -All you have to do is input names of all students in your class -Press S to start/stop the powerpoint -engages students & keep everyone attentive

I used this with my Year 9s and got some really great results back Iain McArthur and Birds Includes: A Checklist the explains clearly exactly what to do. Example outcomes A range of activities that develop … -Knowledge -Analysis -Skills …all leading to a challenging and fun final outcome This could be 2 or 3 lesson’s worth of work easily.

Use this Marking crib sheet to simplify your marking and develop student's self-criticality. The idea is to use a marking crib sheet to collate generic comments rather than writing them down into individual books. The benefits include garnering a whole class overview and thus allowing for your planning to be more specific. This file can be adapted to use with any subject.

Surrealist Collage -To write your own definition of “surrealism” -To work in groups to recreate a famous surrealist work of art using collage. Engage students in surrealism and have them experiment with collage to fulfil National Curriculum Key Concepts: A01 Develop & A02 Refine.

Use this resource to get students to understand the importance of composition in their art.

Honestly. Here is your first KS3 lesson done… with class. -Do Now Activity -Rules & Routines of the Art class -How to use a sketchbook -Deeper Questioning -Baseline Drawing Assessment -Success Criteria & Assessment Material for Baseline -Homework -Inspirational video clip Make a few tweaks to customise for your school and you are ready for all of your first KS3 Art lessons!

Use this resource to get your students using a wide variety of marks to add energy and style to their art. In this lesson students will... -experiment with a wide range of expressive lines -create art in the style of artist Nina Chakrabarti -evaluate their own & each other's work against the assessment criteria (provided) All you need for a fun & meaningful lesson is this powerpoint, some black pens, printed out images of faces and students. Enjoy!

Creative Literacy Drawing Challenge Includes: -Printable worksheets for key texts used in years 7, 8 & 9. Activity: Students use different types of expressive lines and marks to interpret and draw a visual response inspired by the text. Year 7: Theseus and the Minotaur Year 8: Act 1, Scene 4, Macbeth Year 9: Act 1, Scene 1, Romeo & Juliet

Use this lesson to introduce GCSE or A-level students to the conceptual art movement of DADAism and have them create their own random collages and automatic poetry. Includes: -Introduction to DADAism in Art -Instructions for how to create a DADAist collage -Instructions for how to create automatic poetry -words to print out & use for automatic poetry -examples of intended outcome -homework tasks

-Instructions for a practical activity -Introduction to a range of Artists who work on founds surfaces… Ekaterina Panikava, Vhils, Florian Nicole, Carola Kastmans, Guy Denning, Ed Fairburn, Mark Powell, Robert Rauschenburg -Ready to upload or print as is- no edits needed. -Have a look at the examples of Artwork on this presentation showing the way a variety of different artists have used found surfaces to create portraits.

Ready to print or upload and use immediately. Perfect to use as a lesson cover Includes: -drawing activity -dot colouring task -artist information -word search