Teaching Ideas for Art and Design
Classroom teaching ideas and lesson planning advice to support busy primary school teachers in Key Stages One and Two and the Foundation Stage. Discover a fantastic range of primary resources to excite and inspire pupils on different topics and themes for art and design.
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Easter Gospels
Use art and design and literacy skills to understand and illustrate the sequence of events surrounding the Easter story
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Giant Paintings
Develop teamwork and co-operation skills by getting the class to work together to produce a giant example of a painting by a significant artist
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Learning Zones
Create different learning zones around the classroom to support development across a range of curriculum areas
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Topic Launches
Select and utilise effective ways of launching a new curriculum topic covering a range of subjects in the classroom
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Topic Tree
Demonstrate prior understanding of a new classroom topic and identify questions for further research
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Christmas Celebrations
Develop and refine skills in a range of curriculum subjects when celebrating and enjoying the festive season
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Christmas Market
Invite other pupils and parents into the classroom to purchase food snacks, cards and decorations made by the class for Christmas
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Christmas Baubles
Select and shape a range of materials to produce different ornaments to display on a family Christmas tree
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School Fireworks
Produce a mock firework display using art, music and computing skills for the whole school to enjoy in an assembly
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Autumn Watch
Observe and record how the natural landscape around the school is changing during the autumn season
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Spooky Classroom
Practise and develop art and design skills when working with different materials to decorate the classroom to celebrate Halloween
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Halloween Party Food
Design and make a range of food snacks and cocktail drinks that could be served at a family Halloween party
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World Explorers
Practise composing and publishing recounts describing voyages and expeditions to different locations around the world
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Story Library
Identify features of different narrative genres to plan and write a story to match the content and structure of one type of writing
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Space Flight
Change and adapt the sequence of events in a narrative story about a journey that happens in a fantasy world
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Farm Graphs
Identify and illustrate how to organise information related to different farm topics on a block graph using questions to query the presented data