I am the head of a busy and successful Art and Design department with over 10 years of experience. The resources I provide are the ones we use in our department to engage with our brilliant young people and develop their Art and design skills toward excellence.
I am the head of a busy and successful Art and Design department with over 10 years of experience. The resources I provide are the ones we use in our department to engage with our brilliant young people and develop their Art and design skills toward excellence.
A fun and engaging project for students to create characters in the style of Graphic designer, Jon Burgerman. Student will explore imaginative and original ways of creating character designs, then they will create an original piece of work. The powerpoint has detailed step by step instructions and a great quantity of visual examples for a project that should take between 6 and 8 lessons. If you found this resource useful, please leave a positive review :) Thanks
17 outstanding outstanding Art and Design projects and lessons for years 7 -13, entire library for busy and successful Art department, £78.50 when bought separately!
These projects help to teach imaginative approaches and Art skills, as well as to enable students to learn about the lives of famous artists and their approaches. They include a huge range of visual resources to guide students through each task
QUALITY resources to guide students in writing about pieces of Artwork for GCSE and A Level. Creating in depth essays covering comparisons, time-lines of the artist, content, form, mood, processes and much more. Essays written using these resources have been praised by examiners every year at moderation.
Extensive homework projects for KS3 and GCSE, each one guiding students through research and copying famous artists’ works and then creating their own pastiche
Tried and tested GCSE coursework project for generating and refining original surreal ideas for a piece of Art. Developed to be perfect for distance learning including a 29 page booklet with everything students need. A 127 slide powerpoint accompanies the booklet with the same visual examples and tasks. There is a massive range of surreal artworks included in the project as well as links to surreal videos and an overview of the Art movement of Surrealism. This project contains a good range of tasks to develop interesting ideas and refine/develop them and has regularly achieved grade 9s with GCSE students at my school. It contains many student examples including a full GCSE project at grade 9. This project could easily be adapted for year 10 or even KS3. If you find this resource useful, please leave a positive review, thanks :)
A series of two abstract art projects that work together to teach two approaches to abstract art and focus on the work of the artists Wassily Kandinsky, Frank Stella, Beatriz Milhazes, Sarah Morris, Picasso, Mondrian, and Cezanne. The projects would be ideal for KS3 students and together would take between 12 and 16 hours. The projects are easy to follow and are full of resources, students could even follow the plan through distance- learning.
Loads of templates and resources to assist you in running a successful Art and Design department. 12 resources worth over £33 if bought separately.
Resources to cut time, visual resources for the department, resources to show off what you do in detail for OFSTED.
For Art department heads and Art department leads: an example of a visual curriculum road map/pathway for an Art and Design department. OFSTED love it as a visual resource for staff, students and visitors to quickly see the path of the curriculum and how it fits together and builds from one project to another. Use it as a template but make it your own including your own department’s schemes of learning. At my own department we have printed a copy to A1 for each classroom and for the corridor in the department.** If you found this resource useful, please leave a positive review :) Thanks**
Detailed Artist of the week powerpoint, and publisher/PDF A3 posters. Great for OFSTED showing how as a department you are celebrating and promoting Art and Design around the wider school and how you are promoting a wide range of Art and Design disciplines. Over the course of the year the resource thoroughly covers a wide range of Art and Design disciplines; Fine Artists, Painters, Sculptors, Conceptual Artists, Installation, Fashion designers, and Architects. It covers Artists from history and from different cultures, and men and women Artists.
Each week this resource includes a powerpoint with two slides about the artist in a refreshing and interesting way, including a range of their works and one of their works in greater detail. It also includes 2 PDF/Publisher A3 posters for display around the department or school. The detailed posters include Artworks by the artist (all of them different to the powerpoint), a quote from the artist, and also include a brief overview of the artist’s life and/or Art.
This resource could also be used as a bank of resources about a wide range of Artists for students to use as inspiration and reference for their GCSE/A level coursework.
There are 40 Artists covered through the year, one for each school week (UK) and an extra one just in case. The Artists are:
Jean-Michel Basquiat, David Hockney, Claes Oldenberg, Yayoi Kusama, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Auguste Rodin, Jessica Walsh, Utagawa Hiroshige, Andy Goldsworthy, Lucian Freud, Damien Hirst, Frank Gehry, Olafur Eliasson, Chuck Close, Cornelia Parker, Chris Ofili, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Henry Moore, Adhemas Batista, Glenn Brown, John Constable, Georgia O’Keefe, Vivienne Westwood, Ron Mueck, Peter Doig, Stuart Semple, Philip Treacy, J. M. W. Turner, Richard Wilson, Frida Kahlo, Bridget Riley, Vincent Van Gogh, Alberto Giacometti, Antonio Gaudi, Rembrandt Van Rijn, Katsushika Hokusai, Claude Monet, Michelangelo Merisa da Caravaggio, Barbara Hepworth, and Martin Creed.
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Two graphic design projects aimed at KS3 students which would be perfect for distance learning. Each project has plenty of visual resources and very detailed guidance and step by step instructions. The projects should take about 6-10 hours to complete each and focus on developing graphic design skills and imaginative approaches.
Mini project including three tasks based on mark making and Henry Moore’s sheep drawings using fineliner pen or biro.
Task one is to try some mark making techniques using pen, task two is to copy a section of one of Henry Moore’s pieces, and task three is to draw a sheep from a photograph using similar mark making to Henry Moore.
The project could be undertaken by KS3 or KS4.
There are two versions, each with different images for students to choose from.
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QUALITY resource to guide students in writing in detail about pieces of Artwork for GCSE and A Level. Students will create an in depth essay covering comparisons, time-lines of the artist, content, form, mood, processes and much more. All done in using the easy to remember acronym, AWESOME.
A - about the Artist, W - what’s in the picture, E - elements of the picture, S - story created, O - other artists’ work, M - method and media, E - explain your opinion
Essays written using these resources have been praised by examiners every year at moderation.
A sheet to guide Art students through a thorough written comparison of two Artworks. This would mostly suit pieces of Fine art but could be for painting, sculpture, installation, printmaking, photography, or could be adapted for video. It is aimed at high level GCSE students or A level, to aid them in the written parts of their coursework or exam prep work.
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Resources prompting students to experiment with ideas and explore different techniques and approaches in creating their art through 5 mini projects. Students will take their own personal starting point and take influence from a wide range of artists. The powerpoints include images from over 40 different artists and direct students to explore overlapping and merging images, working on interesting surfaces, working with collage, incorporating text into their Art, and including pattern. Some of the artists in the powerpoints include:
Marie Esther, Dimitra Milan, Manny Robertson, Sammy Slabbinck, Loui Jover, Chris Lord, Martin O’Neill, Ed Fairburn, Stephanie Ledoux, Darlene McElroy, Andrew Slagado, Thaneeya McArdle, Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, Mel Bochner, and Stuart Semple.
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An Art project based on the artist Keith Haring aimed at KS3 or KS4 students. The project will last between 10 and 15 hours and includes aspects of figure drawing using correct proportions, research on the artist Keith Haring, a short section on Henri Matisse and his figure cut out pieces of Art. Students will end the project with a final piece of Art based on a theme taken from one of Keith Haring’s pieces. The project includes quality worksheets for drawing figures in correct proportions and a quality biography of Keith Haring.
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A project for students to complete at home based on four surreal artists, two contemporary (Leszek Kostuj and Lora Zombie) and two from Art History (Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte).
The project involves writing about a piece of Art and copying sections from each artist.
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A 60 slide powerpoint covering a timeline of Art history from Medieval Art through to the modern day. Each slide has images and names of some of the main artists from each Art movement.
Detailed example answers to 12 in-depth questions OFSTED may ask your Art and design department. This resource was used by me to prepare myself and my team for an upcoming OFSTED visit and to communicate with SLT how we were prepared for such a visit. This resource might be helpful as a shortcut for you, or to prompt/guide for your own department in analysing what you do well and need to work on.
Questions I covered were:
1.Briefly describe your aims and approach for the curriculum
What are the most important factors which shaped your thinking?
Do you follow the National Curriculum and KS4/5 exam specifications?
2. Based on results or other evidence in recent years, how have you adapted the curriculum to improve or develop the quality of education? How does local context come into play?
3. How is the curriculum organised into a logical, sequence of learning over time? How well does the curriculum ensure progression and develop learning from one year/key stage to the next?
How do you deliver the curriculum so that pupils remember what they have learned and can link knowledge and concepts together?
4. How well does the curriculum sequence take account of the needs of the vulnerable, SEND or disadvantaged, where relevant?
5. How is curriculum planning and aims shared with the subject team?
6. What sort of professional development is taking place to help improve the delivery of the curriculum?
7. Tell me about the timetabling and resource arrangements for your subject. Are they enough?
8. How do you measure the impact of your curriculum design? Checks? What have you learned from them and how have you adapted the curriculum design or delivery?
9. Does learning overtime show progression and appropriate levels of challenge?
Your subject’s approach to assessment. In what ways is assessment used formatively and summatively?
How well do all staff understand and maintain the purpose of assessment?
10. How well do pupils use the subject in later life, in their next stage, A level, work, training, UNI pathways?
11. How does your subject support literacy, numeracy and whole school objectives?
12. Which areas have been key strengths – why and how?
Which areas have been key targets for development and improvement – why and how?
If I visited your department’s lessons for the day, what would I pick up as the main priorities, strengths and areas of development?
An assessment sheet that can be very easily adapted for any project of series of skills. Teacher assessment consists of ticks against different skills with space for comments if needed. The sheet includes space for peer/self assessment and there is a place for an improved grade/level once improvements have been made to the piece of work.
7 WEEK SAMPLE Detailed Artist of the week powerpoint, and publisher/PDF A3 posters. Great for OFSTED showing how as a department you are celebrating and promoting Art and Design around the wider school and how you are promoting a wide range of Art and Design disciplines. Over the course of the year the resource thoroughly covers a wide range of Art and Design disciplines; Fine Artists, Painters, Sculptors, Conceptual Artists, Installation, Fashion designers, and Architects. It covers Artists from history and from different cultures, and men and women Artists.
Each week this resource includes a powerpoint with two slides about the artist in a refreshing and interesting way, including a range of their works and one of their works in greater detail. It also includes 2 PDF/Publisher A3 posters for display around the department or school. The detailed posters include Artworks by the artist (all of them different to the powerpoint), a quote from the artist, and also include a brief overview of the artist’s life and/or Art.
This resource could also be used as a bank of resources about a wide range of Artists for students to use as inspiration and reference for their GCSE/A level coursework.
IN THE FULL RESOURCE, there are 40 Artists covered through the year, one for each school week (UK) and an extra one just in case. The Artists are:
Jean-Michel Basquiat, David Hockney, Claes Oldenberg, Yayoi Kusama, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Auguste Rodin, Jessica Walsh, Utagawa Hiroshige, Andy Goldsworthy, Lucian Freud, Damien Hirst, Frank Gehry, Olafur Eliasson, Chuck Close, Cornelia Parker, Chris Ofili, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Henry Moore, Adhemas Batista, Glenn Brown, John Constable, Georgia O’Keefe, Vivienne Westwood, Ron Mueck, Peter Doig, Stuart Semple, Philip Treacy, J. M. W. Turner, Richard Wilson, Frida Kahlo, Bridget Riley, Vincent Van Gogh, Alberto Giacometti, Antonio Gaudi, Rembrandt Van Rijn, Katsushika Hokusai, Claude Monet, Michelangelo Merisa da Caravaggio, Barbara Hepworth, and Martin Creed.
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Vision statements for both an outstanding secondary Art and Design Department and our feeder primary schools. These are the vision statements that we use and have developed over ten years.
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