Use this KS2/KS3 Art & History lesson to engage students with medieval art and have them design a shield that represents their identity. Includes: -Assessment Criteria -Examples of Medieval Shields -Shield templates

-Use this assembly to help educate and raise awareness about refugees and how we can support them. -Defines important terminology to address misconceptions about what a refugee is or is not. -Develops empathy, gets students thinking about what it might be like to face the challenges that a refugee has to face -short video clips to further emphasise the importance of World Refugee Week -Good for primary or secondary asemblies Approximate running time: 10-15 minutes

A 10-15 minute assembly on the important topic of bullying just in time for ANTI-BULLYING WEEK 2024. Includes: Reflection questions Definitions for different types of bullying Tips on how to be an upstander A choice of relevant videos to share Resources at the end so students know how to get help when they need it.

Use these editable Art Activity Feedback Trackers to organise the learning for each of your year groups over the course of the year. These trackers can be stuck into the inside cover of the sketchbook and allow for you to communicate regularly with students about their progress as well as enabling students to take ownership and be more independent in their art-making. Includes: -Instructions for Artist Activity -Self/Peer & Teacher Main Assessment Checkpoints -Space for the teacher to write a quick target for improvement -Formative & Summative Assessment

Use this Ppt. to introduce the artist (designer) Nina Chakrabarti to your students and get them experimenting with portraiture and exploring the limits of mark-making. You just need black fineliner pens and some photos of faces. Enjoy!

A simple lesson to get students drawing- hearts, lungs and mixed body parts.

Staying home and don’t know what to do? Now’s a great time to do something for you! Quiet, focused, relaxing fun- Colouring is for everyone! I’m always drawing in black & white, I’d like you to help me make things right. Go get your markers, pick a place to start And help me add colour to my Art….

1 page NUTRIENTS knowledge organiser for KS3

Can be used as a revision lesson or set as homework. Can be printed out as a booklet.

An engaging mixed-media drawing task that challenges all abilities of Art students to create Art that combines their creative and technical abilities. This lesson offers criteria to push and effectively assess LAPS, MAPS, HAPS & G&T students. Students will spend 2+ hours creating a piece of Art inspired by the heart. L.O: Take creative risks to make an imaginative, detailed response to your original heart drawing using your choice of mixed media. Teacher Prep for this lesson: -Print out some anatomical images of a heart (I've included some photos of lamb's hearts for you to use if you wish) or borrow a heart few models from the science department. -Get some interesting collage materials (photocopied pages of M.C. Escher's work, graffiti books work well). -Provide a range of wet & dry media (pastels, inks, sharpies, colouring pencils etc). -Give students a choice of sugar papers & drawing papers to work on. Enjoy!

-Use this resource to get your AS students thinking about the exam theme Structures. -Students will explore portraiture through drawing as well as learn about portraits by notable traditional and contemporary artists. -Students will practice their portrait-drawing skills and independently create a self-portrait working in the style of a chosen artist.

-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 engaging resource with your class to explore the art M.C. Escher and create their own 'Escheresque' piece. -3 different Escher project starting points offering 3 levels of challenge -Assessment Criteria for these projects. -Contextual introduction & information about M.C. Escher -Questions to get your students to think more deeply about his art -Fun Escher clips to enjoy

Use this lesson to get your photography students earning marks for A02: 1. Identifying what makes a successful photograph 2.Selecting and evaluating their best images on their contact sheet. Includes: -RAG self-checklist for success -Key vocabulary -Direct links to Assessment Criteria -Examples of excellent photographs

A long list of over 50 relevant Beginning End artists you can use, guaranteed to help inspire your students and get them researching.

Use this ppt to inspire Art & Design students to pursue an art-related career as well as enable them to create their own gallery. Featuring: -Assessment Criteria for task -Key Vocabulary -List of Art-related careers -Link to a video clip on 'What Does a Curator do' Student mission: To select famous works of art to make a collection and curate an exhibition in my own imaginary art gallery. -To present my gallery in a unique way on a page in my sketchbook -To give my gallery a name and use an interesting lettering style to draw the title on my page -To use the resources provided as well as researching at home to collect images of art to display in my gallery - To include the title of each artwork and the artists name

-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

-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.

Unit of work for year 7

I designed this highly interactive lesson while teaching English as a Second Language in a Korean High School. The idea is to get all students comfortable practicing speaking in English and ordering food. We used whiteboards to draw the food as part of the role play. Learning objectives: -Learn new food vocabulary -Practice ordering food -Practice counting in dollars -Understand different cultures -Match flags with countries