I work in one of the leading independent schools in the country where our latest inspection report achieved the highest level of 'excellent' in all areas.
I have previously worked in a school which achieved art school status during my employment.
I work in one of the leading independent schools in the country where our latest inspection report achieved the highest level of 'excellent' in all areas.
I have previously worked in a school which achieved art school status during my employment.
Three different 'ice-breaker bingo' sheets. This is ideal if you have a new group of students. All students need to do is talk to everyone in the group and find individuals who have done the things on their bingo sheet. e.g. eaten sushi, play a musical instrument, broken a bone, been to a festival...
This really gets students talking to each other and is a great warm up activity.
These Insects Worksheets are always popular. Get your classes working in fine liner or complete the sheet in a range of media.
This would also be a useful resource for a minibeasts project. Teach drawing skills and fine motor skills.
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Are you fed up with hearing ‘I can’t draw’? Me too! I shall be doing everything I can to change this fixed mindset attitude with my classes and will be using this one page resource to infuse a growth mindset into my students.
This resources also includes a page of suggested answers. This makes a great starter or discuss it in class and then set it as a homework.
This worksheet has been designed for gallery visits. There is a space in the middle to make a sketch. It asks the following questions:
Your Name
Title of Artwork
Name of Artist
What have you looked at?
What media has the artist used?
what colours has the artist used?
What kind of marks or techniques has the artist used?
What kind of shapes and forms can you see?
How does the artwork relate to other artworks in the exhibition?
How does the artwork make you feel?
The same worksheet is uploaded as a .jpg and pdf. I'm not sure why you can only see the top part of the pdf. When you download it, it is all there - I have checked!!
Keywords: gallery visit, gallery education, analysing art, visiting galleries, gallery activities.
This super-useful worksheet teaches students the art of cross hatching. It gives two examples, Durer and Da Vinci and asks student to complete two tasks. This would fit into any drawing skills workshop or work as a cover lesson or homework.
There are two versions of this one page resource - one which uses the word ‘tones’ and one which uses the word ‘values’.
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5 Owl Grid Drawings.
Go on, you know you wanna.
Teach drawing skills, such as line and tone. Ideal for homework, a cover lesson or some end of term fun.
Students copy the detail of the sugar skull and then the mirror image of a sugar skull. Ideal to teach drawing skills and to link with Day of Dead festival units of work.
Includes a lesson plan.
This is a one-page, versatile sunflower grid drawing, uploaded with three different titles:
Observational Drawing
Van Gogh
Sunflowers
It’s hard to see from the image, but the box on the right has tiny marks so your students can easily draw the grid without any measuring, and rub out the lines at the end should they wish to do so.
Excellent for teaching drawing skills. It is a high-resolution image.
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This drawing fruit worksheet is a must have for fruit and vegetable projects. High-resolution images work well in colour and when photocopied into black and white. Use it as a sub lesson or integrate it into fruit or natural forms projects.
The accompanying lesson plan is written as a sub lesson and includes a scripted paragraph for a non-specialist.
This ‘Managing Wellbeing and Stress’ assembly talks to students about the importance of exercise, sleep and how they can use meditation, natural sounds, healthy eating and positive thinking to help relieve stress. It’s tone is light-hearted and engaging. It includes a section where students have the choice to join in with a meditation or to just listen.
It will send you students out into the day feeling positive.
Estimated reading time: 12 minutes
This three-page colour theory exam, with professional looking front cover and answer sheet, is an editable word document and ideal for end of year exams. This resource includes:
Versions for the UK and USA to allow for different spellings.
An editable exam paper that includes 10 questions on primary, secondary, tertiary and complementary colours. Also, tints, shades, warm and cool colours. Colour mixing and harmonious/analogous colours.
An editable front cover where there is space for the student’s name and a space for marking.
An answer sheet.
This drawing sweets resource could be used for a close-ups project, a food art project or just for drawing practice. The high resolution, detailed drawings of gummy bears provide a challenge for your students. Print in colour and ask your students to work in coloured pencil, or print in black and white and work in pencil.
This one-page resource has two versions – one with the spelling ‘colour’ and the word ‘tone’, the other with the spelling ‘color’ and the word ‘value’. Other key words are Line, accuracy, shading and highlights.
Make links to artists: Sarah Graham, Roberto Bernardi or Daryl Gortner.
This assembly provides your students with strategies to think more positively. It gives a metaphor that positivity is like a huge jar of nutella, and they can dip their finger in whenever they wish to pull out some positivity! It covers the following strategies:
Smiling and Laughter
practicing Gratitude
Positive Affirmations
Avoiding Negative People
Doing something kind
Music
Exercise.
It’s a fun assembly that uses humor and facts to convey it’s message. I got lots of positive feed back from students and staff after delivering this assembly!
Approx 15 - 20 mins long depending on your speed. It includes a poem that you could take out if you wished to shorten it.
Also included are a Positive Thinking Poster, and come Positive Thinking Nutella jars to laminate and stick around your school to remind people to ‘Think Positive’. (Staff Included!)
Blooms Taxonomy for Art Revised
I’ve updated my ‘Blooms Taxonomy for Art’ and ‘Blooms Taxonomy Question Cards’ and bundled them together. With this resource you receive:
Blooms Taxonomy for Art Revised (pictured right)
Blooms Question Cards
Lesson Plan for Question Cards
They both now include the headings:
Remembering
Understanding
Applying
Analyzing
Evaluating
Creating
Simply print and laminate the questions cards so you can use them again and again. You can even hole punch the corner for easy storage.
The lesson plan details a group questioning activity to stimulate discussion which can be used with any artwork so this lesson can integrate into any project.
There are versions for the UK & US with the different spellings of analysing and colour.
A grid to help assess an observational drawing. The grid looks at line, tone, shading, detail and accuracy. This could be used for teacher, peer or self assessment.
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Every child should receive this presentation in KS3 or 4. It covers what composition is and looks at:
Balance
Contrast
Focus
Movement
Pattern
Rhythm
Scale and Proportion
Unity
There is a script within the presentation which you should print off before presenting. The presentation is animated. There are 10 slides but because of the animation students will look at 24 works of art.
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This presentation and lesson plan combine to make a superb cross-curricular art/music lesson. View the presentation with your students to look at mark making in figurative and abstract artworks. The presentation includes a script with questioning. Then complete marking making to music with your students.
The lesson plan includes a starter (which is the presentation), demonstration, development, plenary and 4 suggested homework tasks.
This would fill a lesson which is 50mins - 1hr. Just add music!