ART · Week 1 · GROW · Identity in Art · Arts Award Explore → Bronze

Art Battle Tasters

Try five · Battle once · Pick one

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Today is a hands-on lesson — we learn by doing.

ARRIVAL TASK · do now, no help needed

Match the tools to their technique

Tap a card, then tap where it belongs. Have a go — wrong answers are welcome here.

While you wait: tell your partner the strangest artwork you have ever seen.

LEARNING OBJECTIVE

LO: To explore materials and techniques in my chosen art form.

✓ I can have a real go at five making stations.

✓ I can hold my own in a quick art battle.

✓ I can pick a favourite and open my Explore log.

Success criteria: By the end you will have worked all five making stations — collage, paint, print, clay, digital — survived an art battle, met the surrealists, and opened your Arts Award Explore log with a photo and comment (AQA UAS ‘Creating artwork’).

GCSE Stretch: start a sketchbook artist-study page on Magritte or Kahlo — the first page of a Bronze / GCSE Art habit.

STARTER · talk task

Ordinary things in the wrong places

On the screen: a Magritte. Everything in it is ordinary — the strangeness is in WHERE things are. With your partner: what has he moved, floated or swapped? Why does ordinary-in-the-wrong-place feel stranger than a monster would?

Sentence stems:
“He has taken ___ and put it…”
“It feels strange because…”
“A monster would be less strange because…”

I DO · teacher explains

Five stations, one battle, one movement

🛠️ The five stations

Collage, paint, print, clay, digital — a real go at each. You’re not choosing yet; you’re gathering data on what your hands enjoy.

⚔️ The art battle

A prompt, a timer, everyone makes at once. Nobody loses an art battle — speed just switches off overthinking so instinct can play.

👁️ Surrealism in 60 seconds

Magritte: ordinary things in impossible places. Kahlo: self-portraits loaded with symbols of her real life. Dream-logic, painted seriously — your identity work this term borrows from both.

📓 The Explore log

Photo + comment, every week, building toward Bronze. Comments in your own hand where you can — ideas can be voiced or scribed first.

Misconception: ~~“Fast art is bad art.”~~ Speed and craft are different muscles — battles train decisions, slow work trains control. Real artists use both; today you do both, and only one of them has a timer.

WE DO · together on the board

Everyday or surreal? Sort the images

HANDS-ON · the main event

Battle stations 🎨

Ground rule (60 seconds): in an art battle nobody’s work gets laughed at — we battle the CLOCK, not each other.

Station 1 · THE CAROUSEL

All five stations, real attempts at each: collage, paint, print, clay, digital. One photo per station — your log wants the evidence trail.

Station 2 · ART BATTLE

One surreal prompt (“an everyday object somewhere impossible”), three minutes, any station’s materials. Hold it up at the timer — every result counts.

Station 3 · PICK & LOG

Pick the technique your hands enjoyed most. Open the Explore log: best photo in, one comment — say it, scribe it, then key words in your own hand.

GCSE Stretch: open the sketchbook: an artist-study page on Magritte or Kahlo — one image stuck, three labels, one line of what you’d borrow.

EVIDENCE · Arts Award Explore log (toward Bronze) · AQA UAS ‘Creating artwork’

Capture your evidence

TA photographs you mid-battle and at stations. Open your log (ideas voiced/scribed first, key words in your own hand):

My name:

My favourite technique and why:

One thing surrealism does that I could steal:

Skills I used today (tick with your TA): Creativity · Ability to learn · Resilience

Feedback loop: your teacher will deep-mark one part of this in dark green and draw a Yellow Box. Next lesson you respond inside it in a coloured pen of your choice.

EXIT TICKET

Show what you know

1. Surrealism runs on…

2. An art battle trains…

3. Your Explore log grows by…