Start Art Education provides a wide range of resources spanning a variety of subject areas. Resources are written by an experienced educator with 20 years of Art teaching in secondary schools behind him. He also has a wide range of other specialisms including Design Technology, PSHE, Citizenship, Physical Education and Early Years teaching.
Start Art Education provides a wide range of resources spanning a variety of subject areas. Resources are written by an experienced educator with 20 years of Art teaching in secondary schools behind him. He also has a wide range of other specialisms including Design Technology, PSHE, Citizenship, Physical Education and Early Years teaching.
Updated for 2017-18. A comprehensive, fully editable student handbook providing information on expectations, levels, aims and objectives, required equipment and more. An invaluable resource for all KS3 Art students.
Art resource by Start Creative Resources.
A compete Drugs Policy covering the school's approach to drugs education and drugs related incidents. This resource provides a full and thorough policy that is completely editable to suit the specific needs of your school.
This Unit of Work provides 4 linked lesson plans that guide teaching of skills and techniques associated with color and abstraction. Each lesson plan is broken down into how the work will be assessed, the structure of the lesson, cross curricular links, homework and resources required. Also included for each lesson is a photocopiable information sheet for students, which is written in a student friendly manner.
This resource is ideal for Middle School students.
This resource provides visually stimulating slides from A to Z - showing a corresponding art word or term.
Words and terms are purposefully challenging, therefore stretching students specialist vocabulary and knowledge. The resource could contribute to the Art Department's literacy policy.
Included are words such as Decoupage, Impasto and Xylography.
This resource can be used as a slideshow or can be printed for permanent display around the Art room.
This resource comprises a slide show of images of dramatic landscapes, offering inspiration for Art students of all ages. The textural and compositional qualities of the images could potentially provide a starting point for media experimentation and artwork development.
This resource is equally suitable as a cross curricular tool, offering a visual reference for geography students or as inspiration for creative writing. It can be used in conjunction with other Art resources by Mael Matthews on TES.
This resource comprises a slide show of images of dramatic landscapes, offering inspiration for Art students of all ages. The textural and compositional qualities of the images could potentially provide a starting point for media experimentation and artwork development.
This resource is equally suitable as a cross curricular tool, offering a visual reference for geography students or as inspiration for creative writing. It can be used in conjunction with other Art resources by Mael Matthews on TES.
A step by step guide for students and teachers, walking through the development of a thorough Art sketchbook at Middle and High school.
This resource focusses on covering assessment objectives and helps students see how their work can evolve by making links between their observations, the artwork of recognised artists and media experimentation.
An invaluable resource for all students but particularly effective for use with students struggling to grasp the requirements of exam level Art.
This resource also provides the teacher with a clear methodology which can be adopted irrespective of the project theme.
This original resource has been written by Mael Matthews, experienced Head of Art, professional artist and Senior Art Examiner.
Over 30 instructional slides.
Ofsted busting Art Schemes, resources, policies, guides, visuals ... everything! 52 resources updated for 2018. All resources in this bundle have been used in an Ofsted "outstanding" Art department.
Get your own department Ofsted ready by ensuring your Art Department has thorough documentation and offers students a complete art experience.
This massive resource for Secondary School Art departments comprises 52 individual files. These include:
A full year of schemes of study
A vast range of supporting visuals and slide shows
Student and staff handbooks
Student feedback forms
Policies including Health and Safety and a Gifted and Talented policy
Cross curricular information such as colours in different languages
A vision for Art Education
Art Technician duty list and .....
The Complete KS3 Art Curriculum Book ..... plus much, much more.
These resources have been produced by Mael Matthews, experienced Head of Department, professional artist and Senior A level Moderator. Follow Mael on Twitter @maelhmatthews
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Help your students with this resource. The resource provides a set of files to support exam level Art students. Files cover:
How to apply for an art foundation course
How to paint a dramatic seascape
Periods of art history
Questions to consider when analysing art
A guide to 1 point perspective
A guide to the proportions of the human face
A guide to developing an effective sketchbook
This pack could easily be passed on to students in digital form and would provide them with a useful set of support materials.
This thorough resource provides two alternative units of study based on portraiture, two slideshows of faces to provide inspiration, and a step by step guide to developing a face using guidelines to capture accurate proportions. Everything needed to deliver an exciting, rewarding series of lessons based on portraiture.
Updated for 2017 - 18. This resource provides a clear, simple to follow rationale for a scoring system for Key Stage 3. For clarification, a new numeric scoring system is cross referenced with the previous levels and also links to projected GCSE grades (old grading system).
This model is suitable for all subject areas and can be used as it is, or modified to fit the particular needs of your school / college.
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This Christmas Colouring Book provides 24 original colouring sheets - one for each day of December in the run up to the big day! A fun activity to do with your students in the weeks leading up to the holidays ... and perhaps something that they can take away with them to finish off at home.
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15 Christmas themed colouring patterns for students of all ages. These kaleidoscopic patterns offer a fun activity in the run up to the Christmas holidays. They could even be used to inspire Christmas card designs. Many more resources available in our shop. Take a look at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/mael
Merry Christmas from Start Creative!
This fun, festive resource provides a step by step visual guide to drawing a picture of Santa Claus. 56 Slides progress from a blank page to a fully coloured Santa. All that children need to do is follow the visual instruction. Each slide shows a little bit more being added to the picture. There is also scope for them to personalise the picture with their own background. They could even use their pictures to make their own Christmas cards.
A fun activity to keep younger students engaged and happy in the run up to the holidays.
Merry Christmas from Start Creative.
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Christmas is coming and Santa and his Elves need colouring before they can get on with their work! 12 different Elves and Santa himself ready for colouring by Key Stage 1, 2 and 3 students. Merry Christmas!
Original drawings by Mael Matthews.
30 high quality photographic images with a Christmas theme. A PowerPoint containing easy to copy images suitable for insertion into Christmas cards and presentations.
This fun form time game challenges teams to respond to slides that describe a person or animal in or on a place or object doing something. One person then draws the scene whilst team mates try to guess.
This PowerPoint provides rules, descriptive slides and score card.
This is a resource that I have produced to use with my classes this week to give them a well deserved end of term treat.
Merry Christmas from Start Creative
Give students a relaxing colouring activity. Evidence suggests that colouring exercises are effective in calming busy minds in both adults and children. Teachers successfully use them in the classroom to help students re focus. Unfortunately most colouring books are prohibitively expensive. This affordable collection of beautiful original drawings is the solution. 65 beautiful mandalas ready for printing out and adding colour.
All drawings are original and have been produced by Mael Matthews.
