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!

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 :-)

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!

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!

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!

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.

Leonardo is famous for his amazing drawing techniques. This lesson profiles 9 drawing exercises he used, and gives pupils the chance to select from these, to make their own drawings. Created in a format that is easy to use in on-line art lessons, at home, as well as in a real Art classroom Linked to an on line article that describes each exercise and how it was used by Leonardo Easy to follow power point that describes each exercise Power point formated to allow pupils to create and insert their images into their own slide, before returning it to you! This lesson will get your pupils to think about alternative ideas for drawing, whilst they make their own… It will also give them a real insight into the creative processes of the legendary Leonardo Da Vinci!

Pre - plan your Art & Design curriculum offer in this exceptional year, using these resources. Use ‘as is’ or adapt to meet your own needs. Overview of curriculum offer for every year group - including materials, artists, duration, content Cumulative skill and difficulty projects - to move students forward every year, and prepare them for future exam success at GCSE and A level Timeline of artists - coverage virtually every art period in history BAME coverage statement - also attached Literacy links Top ten ‘elements’ overview of y7 formal elements of Art & Design Take the headache out of planning, and hit the ground running with your structure in place :-)

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

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…

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!

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…

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 :-)

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!

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?

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!