Use this resource to get your students drawing portraits using tone & the observational method. This resource includes instructions for 2 different skills and could cover 3-4 lessons: 1- Self-portrait drawing from observation 2- Half-portrait of a celebrity. Differentiated targets for Stretch & Challenge, More able and less able students.

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.

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 resource to show your students how to revise effectively.

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

Need a quick, engaging cover lesson for your KS3 art students? 2 for 1 on cover lessons: -Design a Wassily Kandinsky Google Logo for your school -Keith Harring Creativity Test worksheet

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

A-level and GCSE students will enjoy learning about Ursus Wehrli in this introduction to DECONSTRUCTIVISM in Art. -Differentiated Assessment Criteria for a deconstructive collage task -Definition of Deconstructivism -Guided Annotation -Homework assignment

An 'egg-cellent' way to push your students to draw and paint from observation without 'crackin' a sweat. We used this activity as a 5 hour practical art exam. Includes: -2 lessons: Exam activity & imaginative response -Step-by-step instructions for success -Assessment criteria -Visual examplars -Links to relevant artists All you need to do now is go buy some eggs!

Still have students who aren't ready for their GCSE ART exam? I know I did... until I used this resource to get their ideas into shape. Includes: -Worksheet to plan out exam ideas -Examples of exam planning sketches -Questions to get students thinking about their exam -Self-Assessment Checklist

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

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 printable worksheet to get your art & design students thinking and working more creatively.

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 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

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

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 resource to get students to earn marks for all Assessment Objectives and to effectively plan for their GCSE 2017 Photography exam. 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 -Strategies for how to achieve a high-quality outcome for different skills and tastes

Use this Peer Assessment lesson to get students to critically engage with each other's work and give & get feedback.