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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Class Review
Evaluate progress and achievement over the past school year and select targets for improvement in the autumn term
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School Olympics
Organise and hold a school wide sports competition to celebrate and replicate the Olympic games
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Summer Sunshine
Develop and refine skills in maths, science and art to explore the effect of the sun on the natural world
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Seaside Art
Develop and practise creative skills when using different materials to produce artwork reflecting life at the seaside
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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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Easter Treasure Hunt
Develop English, Maths and Art and Design skills when creating an Easter egg hunt around the school grounds
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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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Easter Garden
Build a garden area in the school grounds to display some artwork of eggs, crosses and flowers to celebrate Easter
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Easter Party
Develop art and design skills and techniques by producing different models and artwork to celebrate Easter with family and friends
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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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Learning Zones
Create different learning zones around the classroom to support development across a range of curriculum areas
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Theme Park Visit
Practise identifying and calculating the timing and duration of rides and events when visiting a theme park on a special family trip
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Family Holiday Trips
Identify and record how to compose and publish recounts using adverbials of time and place to describe family holidays to different places in the world
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Garden Numbers
Identify and model some of the different calculation techniques that can be used when adding pairs of single digit numbers
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Summer Stories
Practise composing and presenting narrative stories with familiar settings to illustrate the events and experiences that could happen during the summer