About the worksheets

The worksheets can be found mainly within the lesson materials in the KS3 and KS4 areas.

They are designed to be used independently by students at home, or adapted for use in the classroom  For classroom use you would probably want them less 'wordy'.

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To help students use them at home they would need to be familiar with the format.  This format design is suitable for in school and has been influenced by the needs of blended learning, the Rosenshine Principles and metacognition.

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A template and a version including the rationale for it's design can be found here. It is expected that students become familiar with:

• Challenges (rather than Assessment Objectives) which either consolidate, develop or stretch

• Evaluate, directly relating evaluation statements to the challenges

• Evaluate based on three levels: confident, progress made, area for improvement

• Providing time to respond to an evaluation

• Consolidation tasks which link to previous learning

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The structure of the worksheet becomes a framework which intrinsically supports learning.

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Other elements, included where relevant within the worksheets, to support learning include:

• WAGOLLs (what a good one looks like

• Links to videos which model processes

• Vocabulary lists

• Extension tasks for the more able or enthusiastic

• Grids or templates

• Links to supporting websites

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The worksheets, projects and challenges are all linked to the Learning Journey. This should provide with an understanding of where their learning is taking them, as well as providing milestones for Key Assessments.

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Both Word and PDF documents are provided for your convenience.

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Most worksheets do not need to be printed if they are being used at home. Printing ink can be expensive and this is born in mind when designing the sheets.  

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A note about materials

These worksheets are designed to help students at home.  Therefore I have assumed a limited range of materials would be available to them.  This is a list of the type of materials I would expect students to have easy access to:

• HB pencil

• Inexpensive drawing paper

• Coloured pencils

• Ruler, rubber, sharpener

• Writing pens

• Inexpensive poster paint and a couple of brushes

• A household paintbrush is useful for stippling

• PVA glue (I recommend wood glue rather than craft glue for quality)

• Scissors

• Sellotape

These materials are now commonly available at budget shops. Keep in mind safeguarding when suggesting materials.  Avoid knives and give careful advice about materials which may contain toxic substances such as strong glues.

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Learning Management Systems (LMS)

I am familiar with Google Classroom as a leaning management system. There are other LMS out there and hopefully, your educational establishment has already decided which it is using.  I think it is important that the LMS a school chooses is standardised across the curriculum so students can become familiar with it in school and adapt to it quickly if they need to work from home.

Moodle is a popular open source LMS.  This is not a recommendation as I have not used it.  Class Charts is improving since Covid Lockdown but has a way to go before it can do what Google Classroom can do. My suggestion is that, if your school is using Class Charts, consider supplementing it with another LMS, but make sure subject areas are consistent in how they use each LMS.

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A note about homeworks

I will share some of the homeworks as Google Forms.  For Google Classroom users, this should save time in the creation and collection of homework set as a quiz.

Most homework will be shown within the project.  Extension tasks on the worksheet could also be used as homework.

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10 Quick Questions

You will find documents with 10 Quick Questions for students.  These are photocopyable with the same quiz repeated twice.  I have done this to save space and paper.  More often in the classroom you may want to copy the questions in to a Powerpoint.  I used a form stuck in the back of books for students to fill in for all Quick Qs. This saved me time and students get used to this being the first task that they could get straight on with, without instruction. 

The form as a Word document is here.

The form as a PDF is here.

When working from home, these could be turned in to self marking quizzes as can be done in Google Classroom.  I will be adding these as this site progresses.

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Suggested Themes

These are included at the end of each set of work.  If the project is continuing in the classroom, these themes are there to provide ideas about how to make the project more relevant.  Higher ability students might find them helpful in learning to work with greater level of independence, either at home or in the classroom.  For students who plan to continue to GCSE, this would also provide experience of themes and how to express meaning, feelings or message within artwork.