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!

A condensed version of my exam countdown activities - shortened for the mock exam, which we do in year 10. There are 4 lessons for each assessment objective, with 3 tiers of each task, for differentitation. Alter the dates and sequence of lessons, to suit your own school :-)

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!

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!

As well as classroom protocols and clarity on COVID expectations, this lesson also enables pupils to creatively explore the work of an artist, and literally take a line for a walk. Great as an induction lesson - for any year group at KS2-4 Great to explore creativity and expression, particularly in transition!

Ten presentations on artists & designers that teenage artists can identify with easily - that follow GCSE guidance for AO1 & AO3 to get pupils **not just copying artists work - but responding creatively to them, **and writing annotations that clearly show their understanding! They boosted my pupils grades very well last year, and kids liked doing them too… I used them in Portraiture and Art & Words projects. They include contemporary collage artists Sarah Fishburn & Helen Musselwhite, 3D constructors Jospeh Cornell & Kass Copeland - and big names like Frida Kahlo and Grayson Perry - aswell as designers Stephen Jones & Phillip Treacy. They have a consistent structure that pupils understand routinely, and each PP ends with 4 slides of the image explored, that you can print off 4 per page - to have pupils collage and develop their own images from… I’ve included a template PP for you to use to introduce your own artists, too :-) Please let me know in your review how your pupils respond to them!

Introducing your pupils to work in the practical Art room can be difficult - pupils need to know that there are special ways of working in a creative space, safely and happily. Its essential to set out the ground rules, for any new group - throughout the year - and certainly if fulfilling expectations has broken down - and you need your classes to get back on board, to comply and work well again! Lesson one - this Powerpoint asks pupils to share whats special about a practical art room, and why it needs special ways of working. It then sets out a simple set of rules, and asks pupils to consider [and agree] these. Lesson two - this Powerpoint embeds these rules - by asking pupils to record these, in a poster. Suitable for any new class, or an existing class that needs reminding of your expectations!

A range of AFL resources to assist you and your pupils see how they can improve in ART & DESIGN - ideal for KS3. *AFL bookmarks - for you or pupils to insert in books, and copy suggestions for improvement from AFL project assessment slip - so pupils know how they can get better AFL grading grid - for progress tracking the whole year / Key Stage AFL lesson progress planner - for pupils to plan their own next steps All in a word format, that you can easily adapt to suit your needs, and personalise for your own school :-)

Flip charts suitable for KS2, 3 & 4 - to support the teaching of colour theory. Spin the colour wheel, to learn how secondary colours are made Blend tints and shades, to learn how to make colours lighter and darker Improve the spelling of key colour words - with spelling lists and basic writing tasks, to use these words correctly!

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.

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 :-)

Art & Design GCSE teachers will find these countdown documents VERY useful. I have found that using them has boosted our grades last year to 16% above National Average - and I work in a deprived Academy! Each one, for each of the 4 assessment objectives, 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 focuses and motivates 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 / your pupil to differentiate 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. I have included them in different formats; in word - so you can just print them off; trim off my own lesson dates or have your pupils alter them? in excel - so can adapt them to suit your own dates, and insert / delete tasks in excel - an overview of all 4 AO’s - that you can again adapt if you wish, then clip into your planner So; no more blank pieces of paper, and no more blank stares from stressed out pupils, stuck for ideas! Lesson by lesson, your exam work is produced… Do try these yourself, and let me know how you get on :-)

An introduction to the art of making pattern, with a focus on defining what pattern is, and how it can be made. 4 lessons, each with a homework, containing fun creative tasks exploring pattern making using Zentangles, ICT, the amazing artist Romero Britto, and simple methods using repeats and rotates…so you can link it to your Maths work ? An ‘off the peg’ set of lessons that will get your pupils creating patterns - that you can adapt and extend to suit you. Literacy and book presentation skills are addressed, and pupils will finish the sequence of lessons with a good understanding of how to create and analyse patterns - in lively, contemporary ways!

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…