ART · Week 5 · GROW · Identity in Art · Arts Award Explore → Bronze

Review & Improve

Star · Step · Before/After

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

ARRIVAL TASK · do now, no help needed

Star or step? Sort the comments

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

While you wait: look at your piece with fresh eyes — a week away changes what you see. What’s different today?

LEARNING OBJECTIVE

LO: To look at my artwork and make one improvement.

✓ I can review my piece: one star, one step.

✓ I can make one improvement, properly.

✓ I can evidence it with a before/after pair and a reason.

Success criteria: By the end you will have reviewed the demo piece as a class, chosen and made ONE improvement to your own piece, and banked the before/after pair with an “I improved… by… because…” line — review-and-develop evidence for the Explore log (AQA UAS ‘Creating artwork’).

GCSE Stretch: evaluate like Bronze asks: star, step, AND the effect — “the change makes the piece feel more ___ because…”

STARTER · talk task

Fresh eyes are a tool

With your partner: why does a week away from your own work change what you can see in it? Where else does the fresh-eyes trick work — writing, football, a bedroom you’re tidying?

Sentence stems:
“A week away means…”
“When I looked today I suddenly saw…”
“Fresh eyes also work on…”

I DO · teacher explains

Review is a skill with a shape

⭐ Star first

What already works, named precisely — “the texture in that corner carries the whole mood”. Reviewing starts from strength.

🪜 One step

One small change: contrast, a symbol clarified, texture built. Chosen because of the star — the step should make the star shine harder.

📷 Prove it

BEFORE photo, change, AFTER photo. Then the reason: “I improved ___ by ___ BECAUSE ___”. The because is the Grow upgrade.

🧐 Evaluate

Bronze wants the effect named too: what does the piece feel like NOW that it didn’t before? That sentence is a review in miniature.

Misconception: ~~“If it needs improving, it wasn’t good.”~~ The star proves it was already working; the step makes it work harder. Improvement is a compliment you pay your own piece — galleries hang work that was repainted a dozen times.

WE DO · together on the board

Sort the changes — a step for today, or a different project?

HANDS-ON · the main event

Take the step ⭐

Ground rule (60 seconds): the star is spoken before the step is touched — and every reason starts with “because”.

Station 1 · CLASS REVIEW

The demo piece: one precise star, one small step, agreed together. Watch the improvement land — and name what changed in the feel.

Station 2 · YOUR STEP

BEFORE photo, then your one improvement — the one that serves your star. Done properly beats done big.

Station 3 · PROVE & REASON

Bank the before/after pair. The line: “I improved ___ by ___ because ___” — voiced first, key words in your own hand.

GCSE Stretch: the evaluation line: “the change makes it feel more ___ because…” — effect named, Bronze satisfied.

EVIDENCE · Arts Award Explore log (toward Bronze) · before/after + reason · AQA UAS ‘Creating artwork’

Capture your evidence

Before/after pair banked. Complete the reasoned line (key words in your own hand):

My name:

My star — what already worked:

I improved ___ by ___ because ___:

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

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. The step should serve…

2. The Grow upgrade to “I improved… by…” is…

3. Work that gets improved was…