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Self-evaluation prompts, sketchbook guidance and evidence tools for primary art and design subject leaders — 50+ original prompts, built for someone leading the subject alongside a full teaching load.
Foundation subjects are where curriculum thinking is tested most honestly. No statutory data, no test to hide behind — just what is taught, what is remembered, and what the sketchbooks show.
WHAT IS IN IT
How deep-dive thinking applies to a foundation subject, and why art is often asked about precisely because there is no data to fall back on.
The three kinds of knowledge in art — practical, theoretical and disciplinary — and how to point to where each one lives in your curriculum. The commonest weakness is a curriculum that is all making and thin on the other two.
Five prompt banks, 50+ original questions: curriculum and sequencing; teaching and knowledge; assessment and outcomes; inclusion; and leading the subject in the margins of a full timetable.
Sketchbooks: what good looks like, what to avoid, and what progress between a Year 1 and a Year 4 sketchbook should actually show.
Pupil voice and gallery walk evidence tools.
A one-page action-planning template.
WHO IT IS FOR
Primary art and design subject leaders — usually class teachers first. Everything here is designed to be workable in the time you actually have.
This is an original professional-development resource and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any inspectorate.
Editable Word file and print-ready PDF included. Written by Laura Masson — former primary headteacher and Director of Education across a seven-school trust.
Self-evaluation prompts, sketchbook guidance and evidence tools for primary art and design subject leaders — 50+ original prompts, built for someone leading the subject alongside a full teaching load.
Foundation subjects are where curriculum thinking is tested most honestly. No statutory data, no test to hide behind — just what is taught, what is remembered, and what the sketchbooks show.
WHAT IS IN IT
How deep-dive thinking applies to a foundation subject, and why art is often asked about precisely because there is no data to fall back on.
The three kinds of knowledge in art — practical, theoretical and disciplinary — and how to point to where each one lives in your curriculum. The commonest weakness is a curriculum that is all making and thin on the other two.
Five prompt banks, 50+ original questions: curriculum and sequencing; teaching and knowledge; assessment and outcomes; inclusion; and leading the subject in the margins of a full timetable.
Sketchbooks: what good looks like, what to avoid, and what progress between a Year 1 and a Year 4 sketchbook should actually show.
Pupil voice and gallery walk evidence tools.
A one-page action-planning template.
WHO IT IS FOR
Primary art and design subject leaders — usually class teachers first. Everything here is designed to be workable in the time you actually have.
This is an original professional-development resource and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any inspectorate.
Editable Word file and print-ready PDF included. Written by Laura Masson — former primary headteacher and Director of Education across a seven-school trust.