The Arty Teacher

This exciting blog post explores my favourite strategy for raising attainment in a GCSE class where you have mixed/low ability learners or simply a very large class where it is hard to monitor progress.  This is subscriber only content.  

This is a guest blog post from art teacher Fiona Leadbeater and is taken from her excellent blog Perfectly Imperfect Educator. Observing other teachers is such a great form of professional learning. There are many things to be learned from being part of a lesson taught by a more experienced teacher. However, sometimes I worry […]

Form is one of the elements of art and refers to three-dimensional objects. Shapes are flat and have two dimensions (height and width). Forms have three dimensions. (height, width and depth). Real Forms Real Forms occupy space, such as sculptures or buildings. Implied Forms Implied Form.  An artwork can have implied form if it appears to […]

This blog post explores how to make drawing charcoal. When I saw these step-by-step images below on Facebook, uploaded by art teacher Bernard Ionesco, that clearly show how to make charcoal, I just had to get in touch and see if I could share them. You would need one hell of a risk assessment to […]

I’ve always admired and supported #sophiespostcard which is a charity postcard art auction in memory of a pupil of St Richard’s Catholic College, Sophie Maria Taylor, who was cared for by The Royal Marsden but lost her life to cancer on 5th April 2017. Since that time, this school has raised thousands of pounds for […]

The Festival of Education is a 2-day festival that has been running for 12 years. It takes place in the beautiful grounds and French Grand Rococo buildings of Wellington College, boasts over 400 speakers, and attracts over 5,000 attendees. Wellington College is a public school (which in the UK means it’s old and fee-paying) in […]