Launch of The Art Toolkit!

Participants will learn a wide range of new skills and processes across all areas of the primary art curriculum, try out new projects in the classroom and share outcomes.

Find out more about our Enhancing Skills and Techniques in the Primary Art Curriculum 25-26 course.

Search and book on the Learning Zone using keyword search: Art Skills 26

Price: Sub £665 / SLA £495 / Full £798 Split across FY’s 
Part 1: Sub £333 / SLA £250 / Full £399 
Part 2: Sub £332 / SLA £245 / Full £399 

We are pleased to announce that subscriptions for the new Art Toolkit are now open. Developed by Jayne Stillman, our Art Inspector/Adviser, the Art Toolkit is a comprehensive subscription resource designed to enhance and support art education in your primary school and is an invaluable addition to our existing HIAS art support, training and Moodle+ offer.

Visit our Art Toolkit Moodle page to find out more about what’s inside and discover the benefits of subscribing.

Subscription costs and how to sign up

Cost: £100 per school*

*VAT applies for Hampshire academies and external schools

This provides access to all Art Toolkit resources for a year via a single Moodle login for your school. Subscription period runs from April 2025 to March 2026.

Start your subscription today by completing our Art Toolkit order form.

This course will enable you to understand the requirements for your role as an art subject leader. You will appreciate the considerations needed to lead and manage the subject area, how to plan, prioritise, have a vision for art, communicate your expectations and disseminate good practice.

Learning outcomes:

• Have a direction and a plan to prioritise the needs of your management and leadership. 
• Understand what to do to plan, develop, monitor and manage your responsibilities. 
• An appreciation of how your responsibility contributes to the vision and greater curriculum of your school and what you expect to happen. 
• To know what a good and better art curriculum needs and how to do it. 
• To make a plan to lead, monitor and implement the needs for the subject and leadership of it, when back at school, with a timeline. 

Search and book on the Learning Zone using keyword search: Art Subject Leader

Price: Sub £345 / SLA £265 / Full £414 

These three sessions will enable art subject leaders to be aware and equipped with the information to plan for a ‘Deep Dive’ into art.

The sessions are designed to consider the following aspects about a primary art and design curriculum offer:

• What does intent, implementation and impact mean for a primary art, craft, and design curriculum?
• What is my vision for art, is it reflected in my curriculum statement?
• Developing a long-term plan to reflect themes, skills, materials, visual language and links to artists, craftsmakers and designers.
• Coverage and sequencing of skills and considerations about progression across year groups and key stages.
• Embedding learning journeys into medium planning to include opportunities to explore, experiment, record, present and evaluate work.
• How do you organise and timetable art in the curriculum, what other opportunities are offered?
• How do you monitor the quality and content of the intention of the art offer?
• What assessment systems have you to be able to know how well children are doing and to inform what is needed for teaching and learning in the future?
• What opportunities are provided to enrich children’s experiences and knowledge about art and design both inside and outside of the classroom?
• How do you/can you share and promote the exciting teaching and learning that is happening in and from your art curriculum?
• What professional development opportunities are needed/provided to support and skill staff to engage and provide an exciting art curriculum in your school.

Search and book on the Learning Zone using keyword search: Art Ready

Price: Sub £480 / SLA £380 / Full £576

This course will give teachers confidence in planning the primary art curriculum to ensure a sound progression of skills and clarity about assessing children's progress in art.

Participants will learn how to: 

• Plan effectively for art in the long, short and medium-term. 
• Ensure appropriate coverage and progression in the subject. 
• Assess children's progress in the subject. 

Search and book on the Learning Zone using keyword search: Art Assessment 25

Price: Sub £350 / SLA £265 / Full £420