Start Art Education provides a wide range of resources spanning a variety of subject areas. Resources are written by an experienced educator with 20 years of Art teaching in secondary schools behind him. He also has a wide range of other specialisms including Design Technology, PSHE, Citizenship, Physical Education and Early Years teaching.
Start Art Education provides a wide range of resources spanning a variety of subject areas. Resources are written by an experienced educator with 20 years of Art teaching in secondary schools behind him. He also has a wide range of other specialisms including Design Technology, PSHE, Citizenship, Physical Education and Early Years teaching.
The resource provides students with a step by step guide to developing an effective sketchbook. It is suitable for Middle and High school students.
Emphasis is placed on observational studies, analysis of the work of artists and crafts-people, exploration of materials and processes and the development of ideas through informed decision making and making links between areas of research. The book can also be used by teachers, helping to structure their teaching.
The book can be used in a very literal sense with lower attaining students, or as a scaffolding structure for higher attaining students.
This resource has been developed by Mael Matthews, experienced Head of Subject and Senior Art examiner.
Engage students in the 2016 Rio Olympics with this slideshow. All the sports, from Archery to Wrestling are documented. A slide is dedicated to each sport (39). An ideal visual resource for encouraging interest and discussion.
Enjoy the Games!
This book provides a step by step art project for junior aged students. A Growth Mindset is encouraged through challenging tasks that encourage a love of learning. The focus is "The Natural World". Children are guided through the development of drawings and paintings based on natural objects. A range of artwork by recognised artists is also introduced to students. Suitable for children aged 6 to 10.
The resource can provide a structure for 6 to 8 individual art lessons. It also allows for modification by the teacher to suit the particular group.
This Junior Art resource has been developed by Start Creative Resources
Are endless reports getting you down? This might help. Fully editable report comments for form tutors and Heads of Year. These comments are fully editable so that you can modify them to suit your particular requirements. We hope that this resource significantly speeds up the report writing process for you. Provided as a Word document for complete editing freedom. Ideal for all secondary school year groups.
This resource provides NQTs with "at a glance" advice and support to help with the sometimes overwhelming first year in teaching. Advice is presented as a mind map, which can be printed as a handy sheet for planners or as a larger scale poster.
Comments are based on my experiences during 18 years in the teaching profession and my time spent mentoring NQTs. Views are honest and realistic. This resource is provided in a range of colours to suit all tastes! I wish you the very best of luck in your career.
A fun summer themed circle time activity for younger children.
Children will enjoy this "what am I?" game.
Slides give clues to objects associated with the summer and children can be encouraged to guess what the object or item is. This resource can also be used to inform children of precautions that should be taken against the sun as "sun cream" and "sun hat" are two of the items included. A 52 slide resource.
This fun form time game challenges teams to respond to slides that describe a person or animal in or on a place or object doing something. One person then draws the scene whilst team mates try to guess.
This PowerPoint provides rules, descriptive slides and score card.
This is a resource that I have produced to use with my classes this week to give them a well deserved end of term treat.
Merry Christmas from Start Creative
A thorough lesson plan encouraging students to consider the different types of bullying and the difference between bullying and conflict. A series of structured activities along with relevant resource cards and 2 posters for display.
This book provides a step by step art project for Primary aged students. The focus is "The Natural World". Children are guided through the development of drawings and paintings based on natural objects. A range of artwork by recognised artists is also introduced to students.
The resource can provide a structure for 6 to 8 individual art lessons. It also allows for modification by the teacher to suit the particular group.
This Primary Art resource has been developed by Start Creative Resources
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Children love to draw faces but often become frustrated with their work. Faces are difficult to draw, and difficult to teach. This resource provides a simple step by step guide, leading the Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 child through the process one bit at a time. They will learn how to use simple guide lines to get the features in the right place. They will also learn they everyone looks different and that hair colour, eye colour and skin colour varies greatly ..... basically, we are all unique.
The slide show is self explanatory, reducing the need for you to do lots of preparation. all that is needed are pencils, pencil crayons, paper ...... and children!
This resource has been produced by Mael Matthews, internationally exhibiting artist and Head of Art at one of the UK's leading Grammar schools. The resource has been trialled extensively and very successfully in Primary schools through Summer Art Camps run by Mael.
also included is a photographic slideshow faces for inspiration.
We hope that you enjoy using this resource with your students. Please don't forget to leave feedback ... we value your views.
A simple activity for students when you really need a time filler! A Summer themed Wordsearch. Ideal for form time or to give to early finishers. It might not be what Ofsted want to see, but we all need a resource like this at times!
Christmas is nearly here .... but we will be handing out the GCSE Art External Task papers as soon as we return in January 2016. Reduce your holiday workload with this resource. These documents provide a structured guide for students, outlining a week by week approach to developing preparatory work and emphasising the importance of fully covering the Assessment Objectives. Included is a checklist to help students keep themselves on track. Also, a visual prompt sheet for analysing the artwork of recognised artists.
The resource is provided as a PDF and also as a Word document so that it can be easily edited to suit your school's specific needs.
These resources have been devised by Mael Matthews, Senior Art Moderator for the UK's largest Art Exam board.
Let your class get behind The Welsh team with these colouring activities. Also included, colouring maps of Europe which can be used in relation to the football or Brexit.
A bundle of poster to inspire students and encourage a growth mindset. Provided as a jpeg for printing at a range of sizes or inserting into your own docs.
This resource provides an online bank of images of plants. Download the file and simply click on the link to access over 200 high quality images of plants. Once you have the link, you will be able to access the resource from any computer, anywhere.
Flowers, trees, fungi, lichen, leaves, grasses and more..... and this is a resource that will continue to grow. New images will be added on a monthly basis and will be instantly available to you.
An ideal support resource for numerous subject areas.
A bundle of poster to inspire students and encourage a growth mindset. Provided as a jpeg for printing at a range of sizes or inserting into your own docs.
This visual resource provides of 40 high quality photographs of real clocks showing different times. A useful resource for encouraging children to tell the time in real life situations. Photographs vary in difficulty and include analogue and digital displays.
Have some Christmas fun with your students with this step by step guide to drawing Santa. 56 slides show a drawing of Santa building up, one line at a time. Why not use it as a Christmas competition ..... giving a prize to the most accurate drawing?
Merry Christmas from Start Education.