Have you or your staff ever wondered what makes a good piece of art work? Have you ever found it difficult to assess a child’s art pieces? Michelle Gaugy sums it up pretty nicely by saying: Every work of art has two primary elements: technical skill and creative imagination, which can be thought of as graph lines that meet somewhere. Generally, we say that an artwork is “better” - the higher the meeting point is of these two elements for a particular work, that is, maximum imaginative skill combined with maximum technical skill gives the best art…mostly. So on that note… here is some free guidance on how to support you and your staff in having the confidence to assess children’s art! Reviews are welcomed. Please take a look at many other similar resources at my shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Teach_wise

A useful document to support teachers in having a succinct method and practice of teaching. Here are 10 Pedagogy principles relating to art and quotes to support the ideas behind them. Make your school have a clear and unified idea on how art should be taught with this evidence based resource. All reviews welcome. Check out my other popular resources for teaching and leading Art: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/Teach_wise/Art and design

Here are some examples (including photos) of warm up activities to support fine motor skills and tool control with children. I would suggest completing these at the beginning of each handwriting and art session in order to develop children’s muscles and support the steadiness of their grip. You may also want to see my assessment of art guidance, which is completely free: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/art-assessment-guidance-what-makes-good-art-13012093 or my whole school CPD on diversifying artists: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/art-cpd-for-primary-school-teachers-diversify-the-artists-you-study-13012106. Don’t forget to make a review!

This Art CPD for the whole school includes the following information: -Why we need to diversify artists -Which groups we need to represent more in art -Examples of diverse artists -How we can include new artists in our teaching The purpose of this CPD is to look at your Art Overview and ensure that it covers a huge range of artists. This small bundle offers you an example plan of lessons for Years 2 on the theme of India, a template for planning diverse artists, example artists for each year group with links to other NC subject areas and a CPD flipchart to deliver the session. I hope you enjoy the resource and that it saves you valuable time in organising your schools Art Overview- feel free to review it below. You may also like my free art resources: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/art-warm-up-activities-to-support-fine-motor-skills-and-tool-control-13012076 https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/art-assessment-guidance-what-makes-good-art-13012093