BUILD Art — The Teesside Studio Suite

Upgraded Scheme of Work · Autumn 1 (8 weeks) · Trinity Arts Award Explore (supported) · AQA UAS 'Creating artwork'

Unit enquiry

How can pupils use professional studio habits — noticing, deciding, testing and curating — to turn their own place, Teesside, into resolved artwork they can talk about with evidence?

Connected studio journey

NOTICE → CONNECT → MAKE → BRIEF → CRITIQUE → RESOLVE → CURATE → SHARE & INFLUENCE

Each week retrieves a decision from the last and hands a specific decision forward. Week 8 turns a pupil's reflection into a real recommendation a named adult acts on and reports back — the loop is paid, and the unit closes.

How these lessons were upgraded (the enhancement layer)

Matt hand-built these as a coherent, place-rooted 12-section Explore suite with a bespoke Teesside industrial palette (steel, oxide, foundry, river), a real Lundy loop and a deliberately light, tier-appropriate engine. This upgrade layers the house system on top without altering a line of his authored content:

• The four Lundy missions are tinted by position using his own Teesside colours — SPACE steel, VOICE oxide, AUDIENCE river, INFLUENCE foundry — so the loop reads as four distinct zones while keeping the place identity. An animated Lundy loop ring shows the cycle.
• A per-week stamped ticket loop-close that, on a dysregulated day, closes the loop on its own.
• An explicit connecting spine band on every lesson (Inherited from last week / Feeds next week), built from his own influence lines, so the eight weeks read as one journey.
• A BUILD→GROW evidence ladder (BUILD entry → BUILD secure → GROW reach).
• A "Not an art specialist? Say this" cue in his visual-explainer slide — the exact words to model, one per week.
• Dyslexia reading themes — a 📖 Reading toggle cycling Cream → Pink → Blue that remembers each pupil's choice.
• Dual Progress + Made by Matt branding (the suite was brand-neutral).

Left deliberately untouched: his engine, his per-week visual explainers, his Calm Mode, and his Teesside palette. The engine is lighter than the Silver suite by design — no sorts or retrieval quizzes — which is the right pitch for Explore-supported pupils, so none were added.

Explore-tier design

Progression is noticing, comparing, selecting with a reason, and fresh transfer — not volume of writing. Personal disclosure is optional; place knowledge is optional; visual attention is the task. Every slide names access routes — pointing, circling, choice cards, speaking, typing or accurate scribing all count. Adult support and pupil authorship are recorded separately. The Lundy loop closes with a report-back contract a named adult must honour.

Lundy zone colours (this suite)

The four zone positions are mapped onto Matt's Teesside industrial palette: SPACE steel · VOICE oxide · AUDIENCE river · INFLUENCE foundry. Positions are identical to every pathway (Space → Voice → Audience → Influence), so the loop reads the same everywhere; the Teesside palette keeps this suite unmistakably of its place.

Evidence lift (the ladder)

BUILD entry = notice, try, select with support; BUILD secure = compare alternatives and explain one decision; GROW reach = compare for an audience, adapt, and transfer the routine to a new image, material, audience or display problem.

Week 1: The Local Canvas

Enquiry: How can line, shape, tone and colour transform the way we see a familiar place?

Retrieves: unit start. Feeds: your choices set the structures, surfaces and place themes offered in Week 2.

Week 2: Artists, Makers and Teesside Connections

Enquiry: How do artists and organisations transform place, industry and community into cultural work?

Retrieves: Week 1's place study. Feeds: your selections set the processes and examples prepared for the Week 3 Skills Lab.

Week 3: Industrial Surface Skills Lab

Enquiry: How can materials recreate, exaggerate or transform industrial surfaces?

Retrieves: Week 2's chosen artists & processes. Feeds: your selected processes set which materials and demonstrations stay available in Week 4.

Week 4: Build the Brief

Enquiry: What do I want my Teesside-inspired artwork to communicate, and how will I test it?

Retrieves: Week 3's tested surface skills. Feeds: your individual brief sets the materials, modelling and support prepared for Week 5.

Week 5: Critique, Test and Redirect

Enquiry: What should I protect, test, change or reject?

Retrieves: Week 4's brief. Feeds: your maker's decision controls Week 6 refinement; class access feedback changes the studio setup.

Week 6: Resolve the Artwork

Enquiry: Which final decisions make the intention clearer without overworking the piece?

Retrieves: Week 5's critique decisions. Feeds: your presentation and privacy choices set the curation roles and display options in Week 7.

Week 7: Curate the Showcase

Enquiry: How does display change the meaning and accessibility of artwork?

Retrieves: Week 6's resolved piece. Feeds: your decisions set the real exhibition layout, labels, access route and what is or isn't made public.

Week 8: Share, Reflect and Close the Loop

Enquiry: What did I develop, what did the audience receive and what should happen next?

Retrieves: Week 7's curated showcase. Feeds (closes): a named adult acts on one pupil recommendation and reports the decision and deadline back to the group.

What a trained adviser still needs to provide separately

A trained Arts Award adviser must audit the complete personal arts log against the current Explore requirements before confirming any qualification claim. Artsmark is whole-setting development, not an individual pupil award. Add locally approved, credited Teesside reference images and verified practitioner/organisation sources before teaching. These lessons prepare and evidence the practice; they do not self-certify the award.

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