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

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. If you use this resource and find it useful, please leave a positive review. Thanks :)

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.

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 :)

An Abstract painting project focusing on the artists, Wassily Kandinsky, Frank Stella, Beatriz Milhazes, and Sarah Morris. Includes a biography of Kandinsky, a quiz about his life and stage by stage through a 10 hour project creating an Abstract painting. The project includes a vast array of resources and visual prompts for students, focusing on colour theory, creating patterns, composition, and paintinga nd coloured pencil techniques. The project is aimed at KS3 students but could equally be used by year 6 or year 10 students with very little adjustment. If you find this resource useful, please leave a positive review. Thanks :)

A mini project for creating a surreal collage with step by step detailed instructions. Based on the artists Johanna Goodman and Matthias Jung, students will create two collages, one in the style of each artist. There are plenty of visual resources to aid students in creating their own artworks. ** If you found this resource useful, please leave a positive review :) Thanks**

Tried and tested GCSE mini project for creating a still life piece of Art and developing it in the style of Pop Artist Roy Lichtenstein. Developed to be perfect for distance learning including a 6 page booklet with everything students need. There are a huge range of artworks and examples of students’ work included in the project. This project contains three tasks to learn about Roy Lichtenstein, to create a still life drawing and then to develop that drawing into a piece that has aspects of Lichtenstein’s style. It is tried and tested as a way to develop a student’s coursework with some experimentation of technique and could easily form the inspiration for a larger project. This project should take students 6 – 8 hours and could easily be adapted for KS3. If you find this resource useful, please leave a positive review, thanks :)

Our whole curriculum overview for years 7 -13, praised by OFSTED, comprehensively covering a wide range of skills with each year group and building on them in each subsequent year. This is an example of what you could do with your own department in terms of curriculum provision. It is also an example of the sort of document that you could refer to in any meeting with an OFSTED inspector and could easily be tweaked to contain your own current provision. The last column was particularly praised where each unit of work at KS3 is clearly linked to GCSE and A Level specifications and marking criteria. If you use this resource and find it helpful, please leave a positive review. Thanks :)

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?

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.

Homework booklets to be used with KS3 students to help them practice drawing objects and portrait features from Photographs. Two booklets of 11 pages, each with 7 high quality photographs for students to use a grid method to copy the shapes. The resource also includes a page for teacher and self assessment focusing on specific drawing skills to be demonstrated through the tasks.

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. If you find this resource useful, please leave a positive review, thanks :)

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. If you find this resource helpful, please leave a review :) thanks.

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**

A 2D Abstract Art project that would take between 4 and 6 lessons and could even be the basis of a much longer project based on the work of Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, and Paul Cezanne. Students create a number of drawings of teapots and still life, then they spend time changing the shapes, forms, and colours, and add pattern to turn those initial drawings into abstract Art. Students are encouraged to abstract the shapes etc. as much as they wish and it is reinforced that there isn’t a wrong answer when it comes to Abstract Art. This project could be used to teach KS3 students or KS4 students. If you find this resource useful, please leave a positive review :)

A complete project for Art, design and technology covering about 10 lessons. The project takes students through designing a logo, designing a font, then creating carrier bag for a shop they choose themselves. The project could be used for KS3 but could also be used to start a piece of GCSE coursework for Art and Design or Graphic design. There are opportunities to analyse logo designs and look at the evolution of logo designs alongside the designing work. The project includes lots of visual resources and clear step by step instructions and could even be used by a non specialist teacher. The powerpoint has 94 slides. If you find this resource useful, please leave a positive review, thanks :)

Influenced by the American painters, David Salle and James Rosenquist, students will create a piece of work including 30 - 50 objects that represent them. The project takes 5 - 6 lessons to complete and focuses on composition and drawing objects from students’ imaginations. If you find this resource useful, please leave a positive review :) thanks

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. If you use this resource and find it useful, please leave a positive review :) thanks :)