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….

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

4 worksheets to use to introduce Mehndi designs. Great to use as a cover lesson.

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

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

In this lesson there is a focus on literacy in introducing students to the element of TEXTURE in Art.

A favourite lesson to engage students with painting techniques while giving them a chance to be innovative I've used this project with years 7 up to year 9 and the results are always interesting. Includes everything you need for a watercolour painting project (just add paints, brushes & students) -worksheets -examples of outcome -success criteria -videos -cross-curricular links L.O.1: To learn about Van Gogh and reinvent one of his Masterpieces using our own original ideas. L.O.2: To develop our painting and composition skills. L.O.3: To use our knowledge to create a work of art that explores the following elements of Art: line, texture & movement. Enjoy!