Why spend time writing your own Art & Design Department handbook, when you could download and adapt mine? OFSTED and your SLT will expect you to have one, so save yourself time, and adapt and use this one! Its 45 pages contains information on: a. General introduction KS3 b. Syllabus KS3 – Course overview c. KS3 National curriculum aims d. Assessment at KS3 e. KS4 Aims f. Courses Plan KS4 & 5 g. Schemes of learning & Homework Assignments h. Assessment i. KS4 Pupil Equipment As well as an overview of Departmental Aims - with a mission statement Health and safety links with whole school policies Homeworks Trips All of which you can adapt to tailor it to your school - simply insert text and photos of your own. There are page dividers for you to place in your own handbook, and an up to date curriculum overview for all secondary key stages - used in my own department which has been graded ‘Good’ with Outstanding leadership and management.

My most popular resource is the personal investigation planning document. Now I have complimented this with all the resources you will need to deliver the entire personal investigation component, which is 60% of the A’Level assessment. Everything A’Level art teachers from any exam board need to use to deliver the P I to their students, from July in year 12 - February in year 13. Each Lesson powerpoint is full of images and examples of pupil work, and follows the same structure to link in with the planning document for you to issue to students. One Powerpoint of learning springboards, for use at the end of y12, to kickstart students investigations, before they leave for the summer break 7 extensive Powerpoints each with content descriptors, tasks, lesson starters and video links - one for each of the 7 components of the personal investigation planning document student self planning documents for students to precis their ideas, easily checklists for teachers to track pupils progress summer task worksheet - to spring board your students into their study, from y12 into y13 gallery/London trip homework sheet and of course… assessment objectives cited throughout key vocabulary cited throughout illustrations and art examples throughout Knowledge recall and vocabulary explained, throughout The personal investigation is made easy with these structured and supportive resources. No more excuses for your students to say they don’t know what to do next, and everything you as teacher need to deliver this component!! All of the resources are editable, to suit your own school and students.

6 Art & Design cover lessons on a range of topics that most of us teach… Easy to use - designed for use with a supply teacher / colleague who is not an Art & Design specialist - or an experienced Art & Design teacher to work with! The task topics are: sweet drawing texture worksheet still life drawing artist analysis portraits art work analysis - pupils own or artist examples Each has a task sheet, and an image sheet All have prompts to support annotation and literacy I’ve also included a blank template for each sheet, for you to adapt and make your own :-)

All you need to support spellings and reinforce the teaching of key art vocabulary , for KS3 Art. This bundle gives you everything you need - to teach, test and display the words you want your pupils to know. spellings powerpoint - with key words of y7 & 8 - adapt these using other words, if you prefer spellings strategies cards - engaging pupil friendly cards, that pupils can use individually or in groups - to learn their spellings spelling tests grid - for pupils books. Demonstrate your pupils progress and cover literact across the curriuclum, too!

A Level teachers of Art & Design looking for all they need to deliver the Personal Investigation, in Y13 - will love this set of resources. They support your teaching of the unit methodically, yet creatively! Avert crisis or blank pieces of paper, with these tools. pupil plannng proposal form - for pupils to map out their ideas pupils detailed proposal form - with essay content suggestions, deadlines and word counts integrated homeworks and London research trip tasks illustrated Power Point for you to adapt and use in class annotation prompt help sheet [which in fact you could use with any art class] summer Homework task - to kick start the project at the tail end of year 12 We have used these annually in my own school for several years, and they work so well for us I thought they were definately worth offering for you to use.

A fun and easy to understand powerpoint suitable for KS2 & 3 pupils, that explains how artists like Kandinsky used abstract art to depict emotions and music. As well as art making activity - it contains easy to use literacy templates for pupils to write about their art works, and sound clips to get the pupils listening, thinking, - and painting! Lesson objectives, starter, review and PLTS prompts are in the powerpoint slides, so its an easy and practical resource to use without adaptation. Suitable for non specialists and art teachers alike - who want to teach pupils about abstraction, and how colour can be used to explain emotions.

An introductory lesson to Matisse - creating a collage. These can be made individually, or in groups. Slides map out the outcomes needed, and roles for effective team work! Includes literacy prompts, video links to Matisse at work, review tasks and a recap quiz :-)

Two powerpoints that will get your pupils talking positively about why rules are necessary in your classroom, and then ask them to capture their understanding of the rules, in a poster. Lots of prompts for dialogue and agreement, and structured with clear rules and outcomes, so that pupils will understand what you want, whilst being empowered to take responsibility for their own compliance, and so also their future success! Adapt the rules I have suggested, to meet your own needs :-)

Art & Design GCSE teachers will find these excel countdown documents VERY useful. I have found that using them has boosted our grades to 5% above National Average - and I work in a deprived Academy! Each one charts the activities pupils can follow, as they plan for their final or mock exams. They could also be adapted for use with coursework projects. The issue many art teachers have [myself included!!] is OBLIGING pupils to make work, even if they are ‘stuck’ for ideas. These sheets minimise that possibility. They make pupils create outcomes, EVERY lesson. This generates work that is then presented for each Assessment Objective. I have found it really focusses and motiviates the pupils, if they have to mount up work for each AO on a display sheet. Each of these countdowns: has 3 tiers of difficulty for each task set - allowing you to differentitate can be adapted to suit your calendar - just change the dates, and number of 3 tiers lessons you need in each week can be printed off individually, or merged into one document, for display can be shared with parents/carers - electronically if you wish - so its easy for them too to know, what their children should be working on. So; no blank pieces of paper, and no blank stares from stressed out pupils, stuck for ideas! Do try these yourself, and let me know how you get on :-)

AQA GCSE powerpoint to show pupils as the consider their options - contains embedded creativity film and creative hamster in a paintball video, to amuse and capture your audience!!

Many students will have gaps in their learning, to close, for a variety of reasons. These resources will be especially useful for y10, 11 and y12 & 13 pupils in Art & Design, but could be used by other years, too. There are 17 Resources in total. Centred on each AO [Assessment Objective] they rapidly oblige pupils to create art for assessment AO1 - how to research artists and make work in reponse to them. How to annotate the responses pupils make, using key words the exam boards want. AO2 - a range of activities centred on different materials and techniques, for pupils to do, and annotate their findings AO3 - observations and annotations. Tasks are set from real life and secondary resources. How to develop these ideas into the pupils own personal creative responses AO4 - developing and finishing pupils own personal responses, and preparing these for display, and assessment. Each AO is split into separate, chronologically sequenced tasks, starting with AO1. Each set has images, text and a set of 4 ‘independent study’ questions. All have literacy support materials and key words to use. Each task sheet is in word, to make them easy to upload and send home electronically or printed, and/or their content could easily be cut and pasted into your own lesson slides. There has been much talk in the Art & Design teacher community about how to routinely close the gaps created in pupils learning - so I have put these resources together to try to assist with that big task!

An action packed Powerpoint that you can use over one or several lessons, to learn all about how to mix and use colour. Suitable for any key stage, in school or at home. Gives a great introduction to how to use colour, through lots of making activities Practical tasks in how to use and mix colour: Primary Secondary Complementary Tertiary Tints Shades With reference to the artists Van Gogh and Wassily Kandinsky Tasks for homework, peer review and annotation Handout templates to paint on Key words highlighted and explained

Bamboozled by how to teach pupils to mix and use Primary and Secondary colours? Need a ready to use Powerpoint that explains how to, with templates ready for pupils to paint on - A3 and A4 size? Need to cover literacy key words and set a Homework that the pupils will enjoy? Look no further. All are here! I’ve included 2 levels of difficulty in 2 sets of Lesson objectives, and I’ve also included extension tasks for more complex colour mixing experiments, on the A3 sheet - to challenge and extend. There are some vibrant photos of sweets at the end of the power point - for pupils to paint directly from, or to print off to draw from for the homework task :-) Enjoy!

An introduction to the art of making tone, with a focus on defining what tone is, and how it can be made. 5 lessons, each with a homework, containing fun creative tasks exploring tone making using pencil, charcoal, the amazing artist Escher, and simple methods using shadows and directional light … An ‘off the peg’ set of lessons that will get your pupils creating tone - that you can adapt and extend to suit you. I’ve included a tone and light worksheet, for pupils to print off and use - either in tonal pencil or in colour. Literacy skills and evaluation are addressed, and pupils will finish the sequence of lessons with a good understanding of how to create and analyse tone - ending with an observational drawing to demonstrate their skills. this could easily be made an end of topic test.

Stretch and Challenge cards linked to common Art project themes at KS3&4, with a template teachers can use to create their own. Suitable to print and hand to pupils as extension materials, or to populate a ‘Challenge Area’ in your differentiated classroom. Easy for pupils to understand, and flexible to use - and adapt to create your own.

3 Items that will make assessing your KS4 Art & Design pupils so much easier! Using the grade boundaries published last year, I’ve created resources that work for my own pupils, that tell them what grades they have - and so also - how to get better! Here are: An assessment grid in language pupils can understand - that you can highlight / write on - with the boundary marks for each GCSE grade, stated A sheet of last years grade boundaries - that you can print off, for pupils to glue into their folders / sketchbooks A marking tracker, that you can use to formatively record your marks on, with a space for pupils to write in their comments, too I have found that by sharing the marking I do, and giving the pupils the chance of a re-mark, pupils [and parents] now more readily not just the grade they have - but what they can do to get better. These helped us improve our departments marks by 10% to above national average last year!

Use this handy grid to oblige pupils to plan what they are going to do, next lesson! Especially useful in art exam prep time - when you need pupils to commit to their next steps!

Suitable for you to alter and use, if you are taking a group to the portrait award show - or want a template to adapt, to prepare for another gallery trip? KS3 & 4 pupils in Art & Design ideally…

Art work needs to be described and annotated - but its so hard to get pupils started on this sometimes! I have created these resources, as they really help :-) The 4 handouts can be used multiple times with pupils, and are in 3 different formats, to suit your different learners :-) I find that printing out a class set, and allowing pupils to choose the one that they like best, gives them ownership of the task, and enables them to gain marks at KS3, 4 and 5 - by scaffolding their responses, and prompting their thoughts into words. All use CONTENT FORM MOOD PROCESS as prompts, and go from fairly basic description to complex written analysis. You can use them at any level, but you will find that they gain your students lots of marks for AO3 in any exam board, at GCSE and A level. Please leave me a review, I’d love to know what you and your students think of them!

Adapted for use as a starter activity for TEAMS and ZOOM lessons. 26 individual lesson powerpoints on each set of key words, A-Z, plus a total A-Z powerpoint. Great to have open and on pause to get your pupils brains in gear, whilst they sign in to learn. Teaches new knowledge and regularly reviews and consolidates this. Includes key words on artists, media and techniques, as well as deliberate inclusion of architectural terms, as the NC now requires us to specifically include this. Will routinely enthuse and equip your Art pupils with an understanding of the key words they need to know and understand MORE in Art & Design! Particularly useful for GCSE and A’level Art and Design, especially to support Artist analysis and Personal Investigations • animated PowerPoint • illustrated - with both contemporary and historic sources • literacy task every 3 letters • artist & artwork analysis tasks Created specifically to address the DEEP DIVE requirement for the use of • LITERACY • KEY TERMS • FACTUAL KNOWLEDGE & RECALL • DEEP THINKING • REFERENCE TO ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN • CULTURAL CAPITAL • MULTI CULTURAL / NON EUROPEAN LINKS • ART, CRAFT & DESIGN REFERENCES, from a range of periods and styles - as now stipulated by OFSTED This resource is an extensive, illustrated, 43 slide presentation that works through the A-Z of Art & Design, picking out key words for each letter of the alphabet. Made using the current Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, every word has its meaning explained, and pupils are asked to capture and demonstrate their learning, through tasks embedded. I use it as a starter activity in every lesson - groups record the keywords on a key words page in their books, and then use the words learnt in their subsequent writing. Massively promotes writing using key terms, and also teaches the History of Art at the same time!