A quick and useful guide for students transitioning from Primary school to secondary school - with useful key words, a basic colour wheel and a labeled diagram of tonal shading. A few simple questions for students to fill in to ready them - and to check what they have learned from Primary school. This can be used as a starter activity towards the beginning of year 7 and as an introductory piece for their time at Secondary school. Can also be stuck in the front of student books for them to refer back to.

Lesson includes: Recognizable typography logo starter activity. What is typography? Introduction. Font styles and type face. Serif, Sans-Serif, Script and Decorative fonts - written explanation and visual examples of fonts. Typography worksheet. Typography poster examples and typography poster extension task.

Lesson pack includes: -Formal elements observational drawing, starter worksheet. -Artist copy demonstration slide (step by step examples) What a good one looks like - student examples and reasons why. Giorgio Morandi research slide and artist images to create a research in student sketchbooks. Giorgio Morandi artist sketch copy worksheet and fact sheet (could be used as homeworks or lesson starters).

Page consists of: Artist facts to fill in, artists analysis and an artist copy. Students can complete this either as a homework research or in lesson task.

This how to sheet focuses on how to paint a leaf using watercolour to build up the texture and tones within. This is a step by step worksheet guide designed to help students as a visual aid/demonstration. With pictures alongside instructions to show students the full process.

Lesson plan for watercolour artist copy for Vincent Van Gogh. Lesson includes: Compare and contrast : A similarities and differences worksheet looking at Vincent Van Gogh and David Hockney images. Step by step slide showing the start of a demonstration/example piece with instructions on how to create. What a good one looks like : Student examples with grades and explanations for what has worked well.

Using the elements of shape and colour - working in the style of Henri Matisse taking inspiration from his work to draw a pattern using organic shapes and colouring them in using primary and secondary colours. This worksheet is aimed at KS3 year 7 and includes artist reference images, a space for the students to draw and a smaller green box for the evaluation.

Worksheet for year 7 colour theory - to create a scene using either only warm or only cold colours. Marking table with space for self, peer and teacher assessment. As well as detailed task description and inspiration images on the sheet.

Learning Journey poster/worksheet Can be put at the front of students books or presented clearly in classrooms, shows all topics and skills which students will learn over the 3 years of KS3 and how this knowledge can be applied to GCSE.

Simpson’s Movie poster re-design assessment. For this project students have been looking at the Simpson’s Movie and creating both branding and advertisements for this. This lesson includes: Written success criteria for the assignment. Inspiration/mood board of relevant images to help students with their design. Worksheet for the poster design which includes a marking table with self, peer and teacher assessment columns.

Artist research homework sheet for KS3 - tasks include an artist copy and analysis of the artist image, with brief questions to help students. Artist facts - space for students to research and write down 5 facts in the form of bullet points.

Sgraffito lesson aimed at GCSE but could be used and adapted for KS3. Lesson gives an introduction and explanation to the type of work, then a step-by-step guide with pictures is provided to guide all students to success. Additionally there is a sheet of example images for when students are doing their own piece - inspiration board.

Shepard Fairy poster design lesson includes: Common Characteristics starter worksheet for Shepard Fairy. Powerpoint with Artist information and explanation of the task. Poster worksheet which includes artist examples to help with success criteria as well as a marking table which includes self, peer and teacher assessment.

Lesson includes: Typography worksheet - typography design sheet with visual examples and marking table with space for self, peer and teaching assessment. Worksheet also includes visual examples that link to Pop Art style. Polyblock printing powerpoint with step by step guide to printing. Student examples - what a good one looks like. With levels attached to show visual examples for level 3 and 4 work.

Illustrating ‘Peace’ Lesson includes: Powerpoint with visual examples and thorough explanation of the task. Inspiration/Mood Board to help with the designs. Design worksheet with 3 levels - different tasks for each level to show more progress and encourage students to become more independent with their designs.

A collection of Artwork analysis help sheets - designed to help students across KS3 . Pack includes: Art Vocab sheet/class display - a collection of words suitable for all students, basic art vocabulary linking to visual elements of art. Complete with sentences starters to guide students how to write about their own work and artist work. KS3 Vocabulary with definitions - glossary for KS3 students to be stuck in their books -a basic guide on common words used across KS3 and their meanings. Key Terms and words worksheet - again with sentences starters (aimed at a class completing a Cubism project - Cubism specific terms included). Analysing artwork - a breakdown of how to write an artwork analysis using 4 different areas of analysis: Describe, Analyse, Interpret and Judge. Giving students the opportunity to use the bullet points to come up with their own ideas and potentially use these bullet points as sentence starters also.

Printable worksheets and visuals to help with teaching volumetric figure drawing - something for students to use to help break down proportion and figure drawing in general.

2x Learning Journeys/Road Stories: KS3 road story with project examples for year 7, 8 and 9. Project examples are included or can be adapted to fit a different project. KS4/5 Art and Photography road story including all information on Assessment objectives and how students can achieve these in their work.

Mark making lesson for Year 7 students - this lesson includes: Powerpoint on Vincent Van Gogh - artist research, common characteristics worksheet and how to create a successful Van gogh inspired painting (using texture and line painting techniques) Van Gogh worksheet for creating an artist inspired landscape - to be used for drawing/painting in textures - like the artist. Homework sheet - Van Gogh research and differentiated worksheets for this.

Lesson pack includes: -Michael Landy Artist research homework sheet. Roots photographs Michael Landy powerpoint for observational drawing (with student examples and common characteristics slides) Michael Landy Etching Ideally this pack would be able to facilitate 3-4 lessons with observational drawing and etching skills being developed.