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.

Huichol Art, with its bright colours and simple designs, is ideally suited to inspire students in KS2 and 3. This worksheet includes a quick literacy task and an evaluation task linked to the specified challenges. Ideal lesson for cover or isolating students. There is approximately 2 to 4 hours work included. The editable version of this worksheet can easily be adapted to suit the teachers purpose. A link to some good examples of Huichol Art is included. You may find it helpful to put some of these examples on to a PowerPoint for students to observe. Please leave feedback. Thanks.

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.

This worksheet is perfect for classroom, homework or students self-isolating. It should take at least one hour to complete. Higher ability students will probably take up to two hours. Contrast is not an easy concept for students to understand. This worksheet helps students get to grips with it, first by providing context on how artists use contract to create certain effects. A short literacy challenge encourages engagement with the context. The main task requires students to use a range of tones / values with pencil to recreate different levels of contrast. This is an editable word document.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

This worksheet is ideal for normal lessons, cover work, homework or isolating students. It fits into a Day of the Dead Project or can stand alone. The challenges are specific so that the teacher is able to task students with evaluating their work based on specific expectations. Enough work on this sheet to fill up to 3 or 4 hours work time. Plenty of opportunities to extend the tasks and include other materials and scales. The worksheet is either a PDF or Word Document.