This is a one off lesson designed for a project where students produce responses to artists. This lesson introduces Melissa Sutherland Moss and students create a response through the use of collage and produce a mandala that helps celebrate diversity and achievement. This resource provides collage resources and symbols to use in addition to jewels to create meaningful and personalised responses.

Clear Step by Step resource to help Photography students respond to the Photographer Merve Ozaslan.

This is a one off lesson designed for a project where students produce responses to artists. This lesson introduces the deaf Australian artist Gonketa and students use drawings of signs to produce a response.

Creating a design to print that links to social activism in the style of and in response Keith Haring’s work.

This lesson covers what is an illustrator, provides some history about the artist, explains how to respond to the artist and shows past students examples.

This resources guides students through taking a photographic compositions in response to Sarah Graham, gridding up their chosen image and finally adding paint to create their final piece. There are step by step images, useful information, tips and success criteria that really help students understand how to best respond to the artist.

This is a lesson on Screen Printing. It shows you how to create a multi layered stencil on Photoshop and explains the process of Screen Printing

This is the lesson used to introduce the Architecture project and contains a line drawing lesson designed for two 2 hours lessons, it also includes a homework task and timings for each task that can be easily adapted for shorter lessons.

Colour circles matching game: This resource, if printed and laminated is a good way of practicing colour theory knowledge and retrieval while making learning interactive and engaging. You can ask students to find its complementary colour, harmonious colour or harmonious colour groups etc. Colour wheel sort activity: This is another resource to be laminated, cut out and reused. A fun, interactive starter activity to practice how to ‘read’ a colour wheel.

This sheet breaks down each assessment objective and explains to students in accessible language what tasks they can do that will gain them marks in each AO. Note this worksheet is different to the GCSE version as it has higher levelled tasks due to it being a higher level qualification.

Breaks down each AO to show students how to meet each AO and allows space for you to give clear feedback on how to improve. There is also space for Target grades and working at grades. This sheet is clearly presented and is easy for students to navigate.

This document shows students: What tasks they need to complete for their coursework/exam. What the assessment objectives are and what they mean in pupil speak How to meet each assessment objective Helpsheets for how to analyse images, how to present and annotate contact sheets, how to present an artist research page and more!

Lesson slides include, introduction to artists style, an opportunity to experiment with acrylic and impasto techniques, produce an artist response, YouTube links to time lapses that use glue spreaders and lollipop sticks instead of palette knives (cost effective alternatives). There is also a printable starter task sheet.

Lesson slides contain experimenting with acrylic, colour mixing, mark making, an introduction to the artists slides, how to respond to the artists style using acrylic paint.

This is for a year 8 Day of the Dead project, it is a worksheet where students are able to create designs for a low relief Day of the Dead clay skull. It includes information about different symbols and what they represent. It also includes a teacher example of a clay Day of the Dead skull so that students can understand what they are going to make and how they are going to design it.

I insert this into students PPTs and get them to tick off each week what they should be doing and what they have done. This helps to show where students should be at but also allows more proactive students to engage with future work if they are working at a faster pace. This document also allows for easier online homework setting as I can say ‘Refer to your homework diary to see which homework you should be completing this week in order to prepare yourself for next lesson.’

I glue this in students books and get them to tick off each week what they should be doing. This helps to show where students should be at but also allows more proactive students to engage with future work if they are working at a faster pace. This document also allows for easier online homework setting as I can say ‘Refer to your homework diary to see which homework you should be completing this week in order to prepare yourself for next lesson.’