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.
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.
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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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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A checklist of tasks for the whole year for your Art and Design technician. Tasks are broken down into daily, weekly, monthly, termly and yearly tasks. The resource also includes a timetable for requests of assistance at the start and end of lessons and a form for requests of other tasks.
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.
Help for a new head of an Art and Design department: a calendar of all of the tasks that are essential to the smooth running of the department. These include when to make orders, what actions are needed for exam groups and exam boards and when they are needed, when to focus on the management of staff, and when to plan for trips in the year among many others.
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?
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.
Project that goes through the planning process of creating a surreal teapot, mug, or vessel. The powerpoint resources have examples of work by surreal sculpture artists, both contemporary and from Art history. The resources also have many examples of surreal teapots and guide students through designing their own teapot or surreal vessel to be created in clay.
The homework booklet that accompanies the project covers drawing and adding tone to 3D shapes and observational drawing aspect to support the project.
The project would suit students from years 7 - 10.
Powerpoints containing 104 slides covering 41 artists and graphic designers (the majority are contemporary) collected and categorised ready to use. The slides contain high quality images for each artist covering a broad spectrum of their work. They can be used for stimulus for a project or to support a student’s coursework on a particular theme.
I have collected and used these over the past 15 years with GCSE and A level Art and Design students to provide them with appropriate artists for their coursework and exam projects in order to cover their critical and contextual reference.
The categories covered are:
Abstract Artists – powerpoint with 43 slides covering 13 artists
Typographers and Graphic designers – powerpoint with 61 slides covering 28 artists
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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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
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.
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
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.
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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.
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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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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.
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A frame for creating a written piece of work critically analysing a work of Art. Aimed at KS4 and KS5 students. The resource features in depth questions to answer and sentence starters as well as ideas to extend the content and subject specific vocabulary.
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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.
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