I designed this Learning Journey after looking at several others which appeared random and disconnected in their design. I felt I needed something more methodical and structured to fit with other departmental areas of planning. This Learning Journey is designed for Art Staff use. The editable version can be altered into ‘kid-speak’ to use it for students and parents. It is designed to link with knowledge organisers, medium and long-term planning and lesson plans. Each project identifies the four main areas covered by each project: artistic influences, visual resources, skills mastery and final outcomes. The four project areas covered at KS3 link to the four assessment objectives at KS4. The subcategories for each project are selected from the Project Builder, also available in my TES shop. This is the free PDF. It is also available as an editable PowerPoint.

Ideal Lockdown Lesson. It can be provided to students as a worksheet or split in to tasks over a number of lessons. Takashi Murakami is a fascinating artist, mixing popular Japanese culture with traditional influences. This worksheet includes a literacy challenge, several tasks and guidance for students on evaluating their progress. There are images to demonstrate expectations, providing scaffolding for different levels of ability. There is approximately two hours work but could easily be extended, or developed in the classroom with a range of materials. Studying Murakami is a good link with Pop Art providing a contemporary example of combining commercial and fine art. Please leave feedback.

All the help you will ever need to guide GCSE students in writing for their sketchbooks. Many students can find writing for art extremely challenging. This resource is 18 pages of explanations, exercises, tips and challenges to help students make rapid progress. There are extensive notes accompanying each slide with suggestions for the teacher on how each page might be used. When I have previously used this booklet I did it early in the GCSE course and spaced it out over a term as too much emphasis on writing can inevitably switch kids off. Some of the exercises can be done as homeworks or starter activities. I have produced this booklet as a PowerPoint to provide additional versatility in the way it might be used. For example, teachers may want to use it both as a booklet and presentation, and to add to the presentation examples of work which explain visually the ideas contained with in the booklet. Students work could be added to the presentation so the exercises are better contextualised. Feedback is very welcome.

Fun and challenging Lockdown Learning resource. Fully editable and professionally presented. 3D design can be a challenge for remote learning. This resource includes lots of opportunities for practical work which kids will enjoy. It guides them through the making and designing process with videos modeling some of the techniques. There are completed examples so kids can see what the final outcomes might look like. There are starter challenges for retrieval. This is good for KS3 where you might want students to develop an understanding of expectations of the GCSE assessment objectives. Also good for Year 10 who haven’t had the opportunity to practice skills in a range of materials. KS2 would also benefit from this project. The work covers about 6 lessons, depending on the amount of development teachers would expect. It also finishes by encouraging students to begin developing more ideas now that they understand how model and manipulate salt dough. Kids will learn many of the techniques of working with clay which they could then use later when they are back in school. Please leave your feedback.

One of the big problems teaching remotely is that we, as teachers, don’t know what materials kids have at home. This causes major problems, especially for under privileged kids. This series of lessons gets kids to see objects around them as inspiration for art. If kids can see a toilet roll, a peg, a foil tray or a cardboard box as something to make art from, their homes can be opened to a world of possibilities. Feedback is very welcome.

Great remote learning activity/ lock-down lesson. Contains a research activity as well as practical tasks. A good activity to think of about at home. A creative way into learning some graphic design/illustration skills. Possible cross-curricular project with Geography. 5 or 6 lessons of work contained within this worksheet. The free PDF version of this worksheet is also available. Feedback is very welcome.

This is a stand alone project for home or for school. It is hand drawn PDF with specific tasks: research, study of skills and techniques, developing learning of colour, designing a final piece and constructing the final piece and finally, evaluation. It is possible to complete most of the task on the worksheet. To do this it would be better to print A3. All feedback gratefully received.

Students are guided, with scaffolded steps, to design their own retro Baubles. This worksheet includes some history of Baubles with a short literacy challenge. Students use their imaginations to create a wide variety of patterns designs. KS2 and 3. Perfect for students isolating. Two lesson work here. It can easily be adapted to one lesson. The scaffolded levels could also be used for differentiation. Editable resource.

Free resource includes a exemplar and a video showing how the resource can be used.

This tool is intended to help art teachers to build a long term Curriculum Plan, a Learning Journey, or simply to identify gaps in Schemes of Work. It includes list of skills, observational resources, artistic styles and influences, design skills and values, amongst other things, which could be referenced within your departmental themes. It is not an exhaustive list. You are encouraged to add to it. Every department has its own character. This is far from reflecting every one. This may be helpful in approaching project design from a different point of view. It can be used as a tool to Quality Assure your curriculum coverage. I hope you find it useful. Available as a free PDF and an editable PowerPoint.

This is a PDF. The editable PowerPoint version is available for £1. The worksheets contained within this PowerPoint can be used to check understanding of some simple clay techniques for creating pattern. Learning the techniques of slab, coil, carve or impress and making balls, along with learning how to apply could be done in approximately one hour (prior to using these worksheets). The first worksheet (pg 2) would follow this lesson. Page 3 is a copy of page 2 with some suggested answers. These answers could be used to create writing frames for less able pupils. Page 4 provides some suggested words to help pupils. This list might be differentiated for different abilities. Page 5 is a worksheet which would lead pupils in to thinking about how the techniques might be used when designing. It could also be used as work for a cover lesson. Page 6 is a homework task.

Template design to be used in conjunction with the Project Builder and Learning Journey. Built in Excel so easily adapted for your own purpose.

Perfect worksheet for isolation, working from home, homework or cover work. It can also be used for additional challenge and differentiation for targeted students. The worksheet contains a video link to a short video which demonstrates how to do the shading and explains visual language. Specific skills challenges are given, along with a self-evaluation task linked to these challenges. This will help the teacher to identify when and what learning has taken place. Available as a free PDF and an editable word document. Feedback is very welcome.

Ideal Lockdown Lesson. It can be provided to students as a worksheet or split in to tasks over a number of lessons. Takashi Murakami is a fascinating artist, mixing popular Japanese culture with traditional influences. This worksheet includes a literacy challenge, several tasks and guidance for students on evaluating their progress. There are images to demonstrate expectations, providing scaffolding for different levels of ability. There is approximately two hours work but could easily be extended, or developed in the classroom with a range of materials. Studying Murakami is a good link with Pop Art providing a contemporary example of combining commercial and fine art. Please leave feedback. This is free resource. The editable version is also available for £1.

Remote Learning resource. Perfect for home learning.

Great remote learning activity/ lock-down lesson. Contains a research activity as well as practical tasks. A good activity to think of about at home. A creative way into learning some graphic design/illustration skills. Possible cross-curricular project with Geography. 5 or 6 lessons of work contained within this worksheet. The editable version of this worksheet is also available. Feedback is very welcome.