This worksheet outlines a task focused on using lighting creatively and effectively in portrait photography. Lots of tips and examples featured to support students, as well as suggestions for editing.

This document features four different peer/self assessment tables, each pre-filled with different medals and missions ready to be highlighted as appropriate, ensuring good quality feedback. They cover giving feedback on taking photographs, editing photos, artist research and annotations/evaluations. Mainly aimed at GCSE photography students but could be suitable for A-level.

Introductory lesson to photograms - suitable for GCSE and A-level. Practical element to the lesson, including labelling the darkroom equipment. Full lesson with worksheets and review.

This has been a really successful scheme of work. Students engaged with it really well, partly due to the variety of artists that I presented to them but also due to the potential for an abstract approach to the project. We did a lot of clay in this project, including a day with an artist which is something I'd highly recommend if you have the budget. The SOW is broken down by week, giving tasks linked to AOs, Skills focus and extensions for HPA. In addition to the SOW, I've also included a worksheet with artist images on that I used for this project.

This lesson worked really well with year 9, engaging them during the pattern drawing element of the task, and then teaching them some basic photoshop skills as a follow up lesson (using the worksheet). Students design a pattern page, you then need to scan their drawings ready for the following photoshop lesson where they add colour and further patterns. One tip - get students to press fairly hard in pencil or go over designs in pen so the scanner can see them clearly!

A simple ice breaker, ideal for a new class or a class with some new students to help them get to know each other a little and to encourage them to talk to each other. The worksheet explains the task clearly, with lots of simple conversation starters to get students talking.

I started these with my form class a couple of years ago to get students more active and motivated on a Monday morning! Minimal resources required, and guaranteed to get students having fun and working in teams quickly. There are 6 challenges here which will each last around 15 minutes, with a few silly 'Monday Memes' to put on the board as students come in to your classroom.

The idea behind this presentation is to encourage students to engage more in form time, and to take some ownership over what they do in the mornings whilst encouraging leadership skills. A good introduction with some tips and outlines to structure their sessions. I've previously used this with sixth form tutor groups but it would probably work with KS4 too.

I've previously used this with sixth form tutor groups, but they'd probably work with KS4 too. This presentation introduces the idea of students leading form time, each leading a different debate, along with a discussion on the purpose of developing debate skills.

This PowerPoint covers lots of different aspects of photography careers, from types of jobs to portfolios to potential wages. Clear information with some diagrams and visuals to support further. suitable for GCSE and A-level students.

This table structures the analysis of an individual photograph through the use of various prompt questions and scaffolds. Ideal for A-level students, and for pushing GCSE students to work at a higher level.

A visual flow diagram for students to use to help them structure their experiments with links to photographers. It clarifies how to use photographers to inspire their experiments, with a focus on supporting them with refining their ideas to get the best marks in AO2. Written for GCSE but I've also used it with A-level, early on in the course with students that are new to the subject.

This is a good worksheet to go along with teaching students the difference between SLR and DSLR cameras. There’s a table to summarise the differences, positives and negatives, a table to input the meanings of key terms linked to them both, and an image of an SLR camera to be labelled.

This resource includes all lessons for a short project on lighting inspired initially by Cornelia Parker and Tom Raffield. There are 50 slides, covering an introduction to the project and the artists, mood board and design pages, observational drawing prototyping, presentation and evaluation. It was written as a skills development project for new year 12 students on the AQA 3D Art and Design course, and assessment objectives are referenced throughout. The tasks use primarily paper, wire and card but could be adapted if you wanted to use other materials. There are printable worksheets, flipped learning opportunities and lots of examples of ideas for students to help them along the way. My group engaged with this project really effectively,

This is a document that I’ve put together to clarify for my students what is involved in a project and the process that they will go through when designing and making a product or sculpture on the AQA 3D Art and Design A-level course. I have also broken down the assessment criteria into a series of questions to help them understand the requirements for each assessment objective. Students who had not previously completed an art course and/or who had previously completed DT/engineering found this particularly useful!

10 challenges written to be suitable for both GCSE and A-level photography students. Each with a focus on developing a specific skill, and written to be engaging and accessible from anywhere including from home if needed. Skills include composition, lighting, contrasting colours, viewpoints and shutter speed. They are written to be a open to interpretation, meaning that students of all abilities should be able to have some fun with the challenges.

This powerpoint was written for my year 11 students who are doing a project on Distortion. After looking at the work of Suzanne Saroff, I wanted students to complete a photoshoot of a single glass, demonstrating how you can get a real variety of photos documenting distortion with a little creativity. Each slide includes examples of photos and key tips for success!