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!

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 :-)

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…

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 :-)

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 :-)

A handy checklist for presentation, you can print off and laminate into cards – 3 per sheet. I hand them to pupils as they enter the room, to use to check their book, as a settling / starter activity. OFSTED are placing a big emphasis on pupils pride in their work, and they see presentation in books as a real indicator of this! We find they work for us…… do use and let me know if they work for you?

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!

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!

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!

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!

Easy to use assessment stickers to speed up your marking, Suitable for any key stage! Prints 21 labels to an A4 sheet - product code with Consortium 014062. Gives space for you to write in a formative develpment comment, as well as enter the pupils attainment grades! We use them when doing termly assessments of pupils sketchbooks, rather than setting them an ‘exam’ assessment, as we find it gives a better way of showing how well the pupils are doing, through the range of art tasks :-) I’ve attached the stickers as both in both pdf and word formats, so you can edit them to suit your needs…

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!!

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!

These are a great resource for GCSE Art & Design teachers who want to** formatively review their students work **- telling them exactly what they have done well for each AO, and crucially - how they can do better!! The mark scheme for each Assessment Objective is stated on each of the 4 sheets, with a list of formative review comments that the teacher just highlights to state what the student could do to improve their mark. This is easy for the student to understand, and works well when photocopied to send home to parents & carers too - as by adding your own photo of the students work, it’s easy to see what needs developing! Students respond in their own WDYT section, to the teacher marks - so this ticks PIXL / formative assessment / AfL boxes really clearly… Two samples of completed reviews are included too, so you can see the end product with real samples from GCSE students this year! I used them in my own classes, and they made a massive impact on the students responses to their grades - they really took ownership of the reviews, and our grades rocketed as a consequence!

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.

A straighforward powerpoint with Blooms tiers tied to evaluating pupils own art work, or that of others. Blue Screen to enable SEN pupils, with simple questions that elicit higher level responses from pupils at KS3, 4 &5. Especially useful for MA pupils and those looking to increase their marks for AO3 at GCSE and A’Level. Enables differentiated responses, in a clear and easy to understand way. Display it in class, or print it off as handouts.

A template to use in Plan-Do-Review discussions with your teaching colleagues - as you coach yourself or a peer, to develop Teaching and Learning. Aswell as the template, there are two samples used in real coaching situations - to give you an idea of how they might be used. Great as they give you a clear set of goals for your development, that are easily tracked :-)

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.

A series of 8 positive behaviour strategies for you and your colleagues to use with children of all ages. Easy to understand techniques you can use to eliminate confrontation, get children happily on board with learning and interacting with peers, and reduce stress and confrontation for everyone! Use the hand outs in any order, and crack that difficult class and/or individual!