I've revised and updated my baseline test to include measuring across the four main attainment areas of Making Skills, Ideas, Knowledge and Evaluation. My test takes only one lesson to complete plus one homework task and marking is done in the lesson itself. I've used this test for years and I know it works well. I was a member of the NSEAD Curriculum Writing Group that wrote the curriculum competencies, more formally called the: 'Framework for Progression, Planning for Learning, Assessment, Recording and Reporting 2014.’ For more fantastic art resources visit my TES store https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/paulcarney700

This powerpoint can be used at the creative thinking stage of any project to help your students create interesting, original ideas. It has a classroom game, word play games and strategies designed to make your work stand out from the crowd.

Three photocopiable worksheets for teaching children how to mix colours to make them darker and lighter, increase brush control and blend them smoothly. I've used these exercises for years so I know they work well. For more fantastic art resources visit my TES store www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/paulcarney700

This full instructional document shows you how to make elegant wire flowers that can form part of a creative science lesson on flower anatomy or just be an art activity on its own. Completely free! For more fantastic art resources visit my TES store www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/paulcarney700

This is a great drawing lesson that really extends your students' understanding of drawing and helps them take their first steps into abstraction and expression. You might need to adapt it to suit the literacy level of your pupils, but it is suitable for Key Stage 2 or 3, in fact I've seen it adapted for KS1. Included in this presentation are links to artists work. For more fantastic art resources visit my TES store https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/paulcarney700

Aimed at Primary pupils or unconfident year 7 pupils, this powerpoint contains slides of all of the colour combinations PLUS a worksheet I've designed to improve painting skill whilst teaching these basic skills. Also included is a worksheet 'How to' which shows children the order that the sheet should be completed. For more fantastic art resources visit my TES store https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/paulcarney700

This PDF file will show you a step by step guide to making a free blog. Blogs (web logs) are a great, free way of motivating your students to write down their thoughts, opinions, ideas, evaluations and essays! Every teacher should be using them! For more fantastic art resources visit my TES store https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/paulcarney700

Updated for 2016! My Art Teacher’s Handbook is a 300 page guide to teaching art for Primary and Secondary art teachers, Coordinators and Dept Heads. Whether you are an NQT, a new teacher, a trainee or even an experienced art teacher, the Art Teacher’s Handbook will help you. Also included are a host of supporting resources! The Handbook is a recommended NSEAD Expert Advisory Group publication. Completely revised and rewritten for 2016! It contains: • A 300 page fully illustrated Ebook • Complete Assessment & Progression guide for Primary & Secondary • Editable Word docs for planning, progression and assessment • 8 sample schemes of work, • a Bloom’s in art guide • Skills and Technique PDF’s • A teaching art history ebook with formal elements worksheets • Posters • iPads in art ebook • 40 supporting files including lesson plans and skills sheets. For more fantastic art resources visit my TES store https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/paulcarney700

I designed this scheme of work nearly ten years ago and it is still as interesting and exciting now as it was then. It combines brilliantly with science lessons about life on other planets. It teaches young people how to design within design constraints, use their imagination and think about how different life evolves. Use it with my Alien Landscape project to get the full effect.

A project that combines digital techniques with observational drawing. The lesson teaches students how to use Adobe Photoshop Elements by means of a detailed step-by-step exercise. You can use free online software if you don’t have Photoshop (links included). There is also a detailed guide to drawing faces from observation with supporting worksheets. The skills are then combined into a fun Surrealist Dream project. This is especially liked by the boys, they LOVE doing the Photoshop side of the project. I've had great results teaching this project and so will you. It also comes with links to artist resources on Pinterest.

Four drawing lesson plan activities for you to use in your classroom that have stood the test of time as classic drawing exercises. Blind contour and hand blind drawing teach your students to look at what they are drawing not the paper, describing drawing teaches visual and oral literacy, whilst object in a bag teaches imaginative recall.

The art of questions is a guide to developing a question based curriculum for art, craft and design. It shows you how to design art projects using deep questions for pupils of any age group as well as how to develop questions for supporting students, exploring art materials, becoming an independent learner and in order that they can become thinking intelligent students. It isn't just for high ability or older students because it shows you how to differentiate your questioning to suit pupils of any age or ability. It is a practical guide that stems from actual classroom practice and isn't just a Bloom's questions guide, in fact he isn't even mentioned! Raise attainment, open the door to pupil-centred teaching and ditch the teacher-led model. Teaching art in this way is less demanding, creative and fun! It is written by an Advanced Skills Art Teacher experienced in Primary and Secondary art teaching and a national consultant.

Expressive Painting Formal Elements: Age 11-16 FULL Contemporary Scheme inc. thinking skills. Improve your student's painting techniques whilst learning the FORMAL ELEMENTS of art. Using Essential Big Questions this FULL Unit of Work is beautifully designed to challenge and stretch your students whilst learning the history of abstract art from beginnings to present day. It has been written for students with a reading age of 11 years and is designed to be delivered over a longer period of time. There's so much deep learning in this project and it can be used on many levels, use it for a full GCSE project or just cherry pick elements of it to suit your teaching.

For those who would assess their current ability as: “I can draw the basics ok, such as drawing outlines of shapes, but I need help with some areas such as how to shade etc.” Here I show you how to combine geometry, measuring and shading skills from the first two stages into observational drawing of simple still life shapes. Intermediate Stage is for more advanced Primary Middle school students or Secondary Junior High to develop into observational drawing. This stage is a significant step towards understanding observational drawing. The download contains: Shading a bottle from observation, basic Measuring, Drawing and seeing details, practical exercises in Observational Drawing. Plus worksheets and assessment sheets. Contains 2 longer Windows format videos, 4 Powerpoint presentations and a fully illustrated marking scheme. This is an NSEAD recommended resource.

This PDF file will show you and your students how to make a FREE podcast using free software: Audacity. It really is easy peasy, your students will love it and it has lots of uses in the classroom. For more fantastic art resources visit my TES store https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/paulcarney700

This lesson is well loved by children and uses my own secret techniques for making 3D animals that gets great results! It contains a Lesson Plan, Powerpoint presentation and teacher instructions and shows you in a clear, step-by-step guide how to make beautiful clay animals. Includes a ‘How to Make your own air-drying clay’ recipe so you can use this even if you don’t have a kiln. My students love doing this at Primary and Secondary level, everyone loves making animals!

The Alien Landscape Lesson is a 2-3 hour lesson comprising of Lesson Plan, Powerpoint resources, photographs, artist links and handouts. It will show your students the principles of landscape drawing and painting, colour, depth of field, tonal range and scale etc. in an enjoyable and stimulating project that young people enjoy. Boys LOVE this project! Once your pupils have learned these principles they can move on to landscape painting with the knowledge and tools they need to do it successfully.

A simple skills sheet to show you how to make textured images. Great for novice teachers. For more fantastic art resources visit my TES store https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/paulcarney700

How can you teach pupils how to generate high quality ideas in art? What different types of ideas are there in art and how can you easily demonstrate to pupils what they look like? This entirely original concept has been produced by me from years of teaching original art. For more fantastic art resources visit my TES store https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/paulcarney700

Famous Western Artists Primary K-6 pupils should know. By this I mean that they should have seen images by these artists and remember key details about when and where they lived. These artists could support work done in other subject areas. All dates are approximate. It is not suggested that Primary K-6 students should know every artist on this list, but rather that they should know and understand the main movements and how art has changed. There is a great activity I have written that does this called my art timeline game which is available to download free from my website. There are also too many brilliant artists not mentioned here that I have omitted to keep things simple. By the time we get to Contemporary art you can pretty much choose what you like! The resource contains a link to all the images you need via Google Art Institute. ​