If you’re looking to explore your school’s provision and curriculum in Expressive Arts and Design (EAD) for your early years children, this audit pack gives you the perfect starting point. Aimed at primary school settings, the audit can be used by EYFS leads, year 1 leaders & teachers, KS1 phase leaders and curriculum leaders to explore how effectively your school gives children broad and exciting EAD learning opportunities and where there are chances to develop this even further. Links are also made between the EYFS and the National Curriculum subjects in Year 1 to provide support for that crucial transition, and is ideal if you’re looking to provide a cohesive curriculum offer between the early years and KS1.
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Expressive Arts and Design audit for Reception and EYFS provisions. Expressive Arts and Design audit only.
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This engaging (16 Worksheets + 3 examples) Op Art trainer/ sneaker drawing activity is the perfect blend of creativity and skill-building for upper elementary, middle school, and high school art students.
Designed to teach line, pattern, movement, and optical illusion techniques, this resource features a variety of eye-catching sneaker templates with unique background designs that promote creativity and artistic expression.
Ideal for art lessons, sub plans, early finishers, and classroom displays, students will explore repetition, contrast, and design principles while creating bold, high-interest artwork they’re proud of.
This no-prep art project is easy to implement and perfect for teaching Op Art, line design, and contemporary art concepts in a fun and engaging way.
Expressive arts and Design Themed Cars Lesson - Transport Topic
Included:
1 Teacher Lead Focus Activity (LO and SC included)
1 Nursery Nurse Focus Activity (LO and SC included)
6 Independent Activity Ideas
Book Link Ideas
PPT for Carpet Input
EYFS Expressive Arts and Design objectives and Early Learning Goals, split by strand and age. Includes 30-50 months and 40-60+ months. Great for display!
Expressive Art and Design - Drawing Lesson Pack
A 6 week lesson pack to teach EYFS or KS1 children drawing techniques.
Included:
Lesson planning
Resource list
Worksheets
An ambitious and bespoke EYFS curriculum progression document for Expressive Arts and Design. This resource offers clear end-of-Reception goals to work alongside the statutory Early Learning Goals, with sequential steps for learning to achieve these end points. This also provides a reliable framework for tracking and assessment - ideal for Reception teachers aiming for high-quality provision and progress and attainment tracking. This curriculum progression document can be used alongside many school-specific topics. Uploaded as a Microsoft Word document, this resource can be amended to suit your Reception learners at your school.
6 week unit of work linked to curriculum theme - Amazon Rainforest.
Throughout this theme, children will explore the work of artists such as Henri Rousseau and contemporary artist Ruth Daniels, to further their understanding in geography and the rainforest regions of South America. These artists give excellent opportunities to discuss composition; where the whole picture is filled with foliage, to compare the observational skills of the artists; to express preferences and extend the use of artistic language and vocabulary.
This resources provides topic overviews in Expressive Arts and Design for EYFS.
Curriculum intent and topic coverage for Expressive Arts and Design.
A clear progression from Nursery into reception and a clear progression from EYFS into Year 1 with direct example.
Evidence of how the curriculum getting children children year 1 ready through linking the ELG to Year 1 national curriculm content.
All content is linked to development Matters.
Important - topic for expressive arts - music - are linked to charanga - no resources are lesson content for delivery are taken from charanga
Celebrate International Artist Day with this engaging and informative primary school assembly PowerPoint. Perfect for KS1 and KS2, this ready-to-use resource introduces pupils to the importance of art and artists around the world.
This colourful and inclusive assembly covers:
What International Artist Day is
Why art is important in our lives
The value of imagination, creativity, and self-expression
Fun facts about famous artists (e.g., Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent van Gogh)
A look at different art styles like Impressionism and Surrealism
Ideas for appreciating and creating art in school
Discussion prompts and optional follow-up activity ideas
What’s included:
Fully editable PowerPoint presentation
PDF version for easy printing
Ideal for KS1 and KS2
No preparation required – just download and go!
Use this as a standalone assembly or as a springboard into an art week or class art project.
Expressive Arts and Design Themed Jack and the Beanstalk Lesson - Traditional Tales Topic
Includes:
1 Teacher Led Focus Activity (LO and SC included)
1 Nursery Nurse Led Focus Activity (LO and SC included)
6 Independent Activities
Book Link Ideas
A bumper pack to help you create a stimulating and exciting art and design area in your classroom
The pack has been used in the Early Years and throughout key stage 1 and 2.
The pack includes:
Colour paint tins for the everyday colours plus the more unusual colours such as beige, navy, cream, turquoise etc,
Colour ‘splats’ to make a number line up to 50,
‘Challenge’ cards featuring a wizard with challenges such as ‘make a hat’, ‘make a car’ and a blank challenge sheet for you to write your own challenges for your class,
Topic words for display and labelling (small and larger) with words such as scissors, paint, crayons, stapler etc,
Paint mixing pallets to show which colours can be mixed together to make new colours,
Art words such as ‘symmetry’, ‘sketch’, ‘bright’, ‘spiral’ etc
Posters to motivate the children such as ‘can you paint with your fingers, string etc’, ‘can you paint your favourite part of a story?’ etc
The resource will be sent to you on CD in pdf format.
A great time saving pack for the busy teacher!
This information pack includes all the key terminology required to succeed in GCSE Drama when discussing lighting for a set text. Types of lighting, description, use, control, effects, direction, shadowing.
It includes language to use when writing about lighting such as fade, wash, flood, snap etc…
It includes descriptions of how it can be used to create mood and atmosphere. Finally using the play ‘An Inspector calls’ is breaks down different lighting states and symbolism for each scene. Ending with natural lighting descriptions used in the play.
STUDENT worksheet included of 5 tasks which could be completed in 60-120 minutes, so after the main resource is taught, students can complete the 5 tasks to reinforce learning. Used alongside teacher examples, this could take 3 lessons.
Great for KS3 Students and could also provide a starting point for GCSE students at the start of their course.
Could be used in a project, for a cover lesson, homework/extension tasks.
Includes
1x - Shoe-Trainer store design sheet
1x - Product branding and visual identity
1x Takeaway pizza design sheet
Just print out and you are ready to go.
Happy Teaching :-)
LESSON PLANS ONLY!
For full unit resources and ppts see: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-13299505
KS3 RE – “How can the spiritual be expressed through art and music?” Scheme Plan
Engaging, detailed plan for an 8-lesson KS3 Religious Education unit exploring the core question: “How can the spiritual be expressed through art and music?”.
This dynamic and thought-provoking scheme introduces Year 8 students to how religion and the spiritual can be expressed through various forms of media. The unit investigates expression in Christianity, Islam and Hinduism, and culminates in an assessment creating artwork for NATRE’s ‘Spirited arts’ competition. It is designed to be an engaging, challenging and creative scheme of work.
What’s Included:
Learning objectives, suggested activities and lesson outcomes for the SoW.
Differentiated activities and outcomes for Emerging, Expected, and Exceeding learners, aligned with KS3 outcomes.
Engaging starter tasks, paired/group work, debates, and creative projects
Integrated assessment preparation and feedback tasks
An overview of the key ways of knowing, personal reflection and substantive knowledge covered in the topic.
Lessons Cover:
What is expression?
Students explore how religious symbols express beliefs and values by analyzing their meanings across different faiths and cultural contexts.
How do Christians worldwide express their faith?
In this lesson, students explore how Christian art—specifically the San Clemente Apse Mosaic—expresses key theological ideas through symbols and imagery.
How do Christians in Derbyshire express their faith?
students learn about the Derbyshire tradition of well-dressing as a form of Christian worship and community storytelling. Through exploring symbols and Bible stories, they design their own well-dressings to express Christian values and connect faith with local cultural practices.
How do Muslims express their faith?
students explore how Islamic and Christian art reflect different theological beliefs, focusing on how concepts like Tawhid influence the use of non-figurative forms such as calligraphy and geometry in Islamic art.
How do Muslims express belief in the 99 names?
How can faith be expressed through music? (taken from the RE:Online Amazing Grace sample lesson)
How can faith be expressed through dance?
How can faith be expressed through film and new media?
and 10. Spirited art assessment
Ideal For:
KS3 RE teachers introducing religion as a human and cultural phenomenon
Departments embedding philosophical and sociological enquiry into KS3
Lessons designed to support the Principal Aim of RE and meet the Ofsted RE research review recommendations
Give your students the tools to ask life’s big questions—and build the foundations for informed, respectful worldview exploration.
For the ppt lessons to accompany this plan, see my profile!
Decorate our Victorian Carousel horse whilst considering traditional fairground art. Use pencil or fine-tip pens and choose colours carefully!
Paultons Park Education Department run a range of curriculum-based workshops for KS1 to KS5.
All resources are offered free of charge and may be printed and duplicated for use in classrooms. Resources however may not be shared online; altered/amended in any way, nor may any assets be used without the express premission of author.
Powerpoint presentation identifying the various elements of composition in paintings such as focal point, leading lines and viewpoint and how they impact the artwork.
This termly planner is one of four that are available as a bundle: RME, Expressive Arts, HWB and ICT. The planner is easy to use and adaptable to suit any stage/curricular area.
These particular plans have been designed for a Primary Five class during the first term and follow the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence.
The planner includes experiences and outcomes, skills, lesson ideas, key vocabulary, necessary resources, outline of the four capacities as well as a fully editable assessment section.
Front cover graphics from mycutegraphics.com.
Dive into the world of Pop Art with Roy Lichtenstein-inspired collage creation task.
This hands-on activity invites students to design their own vibrant collages, infusing their unique flair while paying homage to the Pop Art master. Unleash imagination and artistic expression with this exciting and engaging task
Use this document to support the slimmed down national curriculum. Key subject specific skills, for example painting, drawing and 3D modeling, mapped out for each year group for Years 1 to 6.
Also available in editable word format email webb.gaz@gmail.com
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