Use this resource to kick-off The Edexcel A2 exam preparation period from February 1st onwards. Enough resources here to keep your students interested and productive for several lessons... Featuring: -Instructions & Examples for 3 tasks to ensure your students are engaging with the theme and to support them in completing work to a high standard: -Mindmap Challenge task -Mood Board Collage -Artist Research page -Artist Creative Response task -Collaborative Photo project

-Use this resource to enable your students to analyse and evaluate their own & their peers final art outcomes for the Edexcel 2017 Beginning/End exam -Improve the quality of writing to earn marks for Assessment Objective 3:Record & 4: Present -S.E.M.I. Writing frame with question prompts and model answers -Red/Amber/Green sketchbook to-do checklist -Clear breakdown of Assessment Objective 4.

-Use this resource to add purpose and build skills in any lesson where students will be drawing an object. -Can be used as a Baseline test for year 9 and GCSE Art students. -Includes a lesson plan outline and differentiation. The Activity: 1. Gather a variety of objects (we use shoes, wooden mannequins, bottles, spray cans etc) and have them out on the table ready for each student. 2. Have students section an A3 paper into 4 and complete 4 separate studies of the same object progressively working from least difficulty to most challenging using: pencil, pen, ink wash technique (black fineliner with a wet paintbrush overtop) and colouring pencil.

-Use this resource to get students to earn marks for all Assessment Objectives and to effectively plan for their 2017 Art exam Beginning/End. Features: -Differentiated pathways to ensure student confidence and success in planning & producing a high quality final piece for the art exam -Examples of high-quality outcomes -Questions for students to evaluate where they are at with their exam-planning -Formulas on how to achieve a high-quality outcome for different skills and tastes

One of my favourite lessons to teach. Now your students can enjoy it too! Featuring differentiated resources and a skill-building handout ready to print. Everything you need for a dynamite lesson all included in this ppt. Just add fineliners… and students. -Empower your students by teaching them how to skilfully use the ink wash technique against success criteria -Learn about the dark art of Goya and Redon and link to Beginning/and/or End -3 ready-to-print skill worksheets offering different levels of challenge -Includes a variety of Goya and Redon images for students to work from -Differentiated with key art vocabulary in 8 different languages -Reflection plenary questions to deepen learning and self-evaluate

-Use this resource to get your students exploring the theme of BEGINNING/END and creating extraordinary collages while earning marks for Assessment Objective 1. -Instructions for how to use collage as an artistic process -Explanation of what COLLAGE is and tricks on how to use it effectively. -Examples of artists who use collage as a medium -Examples of GCSE student collages

-Use this resource to teach students how to draw using 1 & 2-point perspective -Learn and understand key terminology -Engage students by showing interesting perspective video clip (link included) to Julian Beever Street Artist.

Use this resource to kick-off The Edexcel A2 exam preparation period from February 1st onwards. Enough resources here to keep your students interested and productive for several lessons… Featuring: -Instructions & Examples for 3 tasks to ensure your students are engaging with the theme and to support them in completing work to a high standard: -Mindmap Challenge task -Mood Board Collage -A range of suitable ENVIRONMENT artists -Artist Research page -Artist Creative Response task -Collaborative Photo project

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!

Use this resource to empower your students and help them develop their painting skills. Artist mission: To learn how to control a combination of wet media to create a realistic chocolate bar painting. Includes: -Success criteria -Media strengths & weaknesses -Key vocabulary -Links to relevant artists -Homework tasks I used this for a 2-month A2-sized year 10 candy painting project, but it could be adapted for any length of time and any year group. My students combined acrylic, watercolour, ink and aquapencils to achieve their outcome.

Need a quick homework to keep your GCSE students working on creating evidence for their Art portfolio for Beginning/End over the Easter break? Use this! Features... -Checklist of holiday activities -Focus on Researching artists & exploring personal interests -Exemplars of A/B/C quality work -AO4 Idea mindmap

Use this unique resource to inspire students to see the world as artists and use the visual world around them to influence their work.

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.

Use this to show your students how to use the grid method to draw a realistic portrait.

Use this resource to get your students creating their own portraits exploring the theme of Identity, Respect & Community… Complete Project with 5 files, including: Identity, Respect & Community Portrait lesson Which introduces a range of artists, with opportunities for interpretation & analysis, as well as portrait practice and key Art vocabulary. Portrait Planner (Printable worksheet for students to fill in to plan their portrait) Project Booklet Guide (I used this an an Independent home learning task) Self Portrait Task(I used this as an Independent home learning task) Portrait practice (Do Now mark-making tasks) Black History Month

Need a high quality lesson to deliver in school or set as remote learning? This easy to use resource will have your students learning key art vocabulary, deciphering famous vanitas paintings and practising their own drawing skills using the observational, grid or upside-down techniques. I set this for my year 9 & 10 remote learning- they loved it and asked for 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.

All the artists straight from the exam paper along with some extras to get students started on an artist research and/or generating project ideas right away. Includes: An introduction to all of the artists included in the exam paper

I’m using this with my current year 12s Will result in an artist research pages for the book and an independent assemblage art outcome in the style of Includes An introduction to a variety of Assemblage Artists Instructions on how to start your own assemblage project Assessment Criteria

Print & go, can be used for year 7, 8 or 9 Design & Technology lessons. Can be done in any classroom. 24 pages. Includes: Assessment Criteria & a variety of mini-projects. Unit Focus: In this class you will be investigating graphics, posters, and book design as part of Design and Technology Graphics projects 1 I can develop some ideas using colour. 2 I can use colour/texture to make my ideas look realistic 3 I can develop different ideas using some information and research that I have found. 4 I can identify a way of making my work look and work better. 5 I can work independently at times during my practical work 6 I have a product which is completed and uses one or more skills 7 I can develop different ideas using some information and research that I have found 8 I can present my development work neatly using 2D/3D drawings. 9 I can use and understand branding words