Reading Tasks

Buildings and Structures

  • Archi-doodle by Steve Bowkett

  • Archi-Doodle City by Steve Bowkett

  • Atlas of Amazing Architecture: The most incredible buildings that you've (probably) never heard of by Peter Allen

  • Student Handbook for Art and Design Richard Hickman

Objects and Artefacts

  • Great War Artefacts in 100 Objects by Martin Mace

  • A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil McGregor

  • The Story of Art by EH Gombrich

  • Student Handbook for Art and Design Richard Hickman


Writing Tasks

Buildings and Structures

Imagine that you are going to build a brand new city!

  • What would you want your city to have?

  • What “wants” versus “needs” will your city have?

  • How will you entice people to leave where they currently live and move to this new place?

  • What will be special and unique about your city, as compared to other cities in the world?

Buildings and Structures

Try one of the listed tasks on the links to develop your knowledge and understanding for writing about Architecture.

Objects and Artefacts

Utilise the link to explore how you might write about an Object or Artefact.

Objects and Artefacts

Complete the task exploring writing about Still Life. Useful link

Listening Tasks

Podcast - Architects

Royal Academy Podcast: The International Architects Series aims to provide a regular London platform for some of the most innovative architects practicing around the world today.

These events feature hour-long lectures by renowned architects introducing recent work and explaining the rationale of their practice. The lectures are followed by questions from the audience, encouraging participation in the discussion and challenging the architects.

Podcast -

Royal Academy Podcast: First pondered by architect Cedric Price in 1966, this question is as relevant as ever. Traditionally presented as an answer to human needs and limitations, technology is now also transforming the way architecture is produced and the ways in which we interact with it, fostering adaptation and change in both individual and collective behaviour. Its impact has long been overlooked, creating an increasing techno-skepticism that is repositioning the human relationship to machines and their subsequent wider impact.

Michael Craig-Martin

Michael Craig-Martin’s life has been as colourful and varied as his distinctive work. He has enjoyed international success with major exhibitions around the world, high-profile commissions and numerous honours.

In this event, the RA’s Artistic Director Tim Marlow joined Craig-Martin to discuss what it takes to coordinate the RA’s Summer Exhibition and to consider the development of his career and the evolution of the art world over the last half century.

In Conversation with...

In conversation with the art critic and lecturer, Gilda Williams, the two artists discuss their new work, as well as experiences creating pieces for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square.

Watching Tasks

Notre Dame

Rebuilding Notre Dame- The Next Chapter

Three years after the devastating fire, Lucy Worsley has exclusive access to the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris at a key turning point of the restoration. Work to rebuild and restore the monument is being ramped up in a bid to meet the ambitious deadline to reopen it to the public in 2024.

Amazing Spaces

George Clarke's Amazing Spaces available on Channel 4

George Clarke explores the extraordinary world of small builds, where people turn tiny spaces into the most incredible places to live, work and play. He even tries making a few of his own.

Museum Secrets

Secrets of the Museum- V&A

Secrets of the Museum is a documentary made for BBC Two. It goes behind the scenes at the V&A – showing the work of our curators and conservators – alongside our preparations for exhibitions and acquisitions. The films explore the variety of the V&A's collections, and the complexities in preparing them for display in our galleries.

Research Tasks

Gaudi

Research the artist Gaudi. Complete research into, and appreciation of, the work of the artist and their outcomes.

Consider what you have learnt from the research into their practice, career, life and work.

Da Vinici

Research the artist Leonardo Da Vinici. Complete research into, and appreciation of, the work of the artist and their outcomes.

Consider what you have learnt from the research into their practice, career, life and work.

Picasso

Research the artist Pablo Picasso. Complete research into, and appreciation of, the work of the artist and their outcomes.

Consider what you have learnt from the research into their practice, career, life and work.

Susan Hiller

Research the artist Susan Hiller. Complete research into, and appreciation of, the work of the artist and their outcomes.

Consider what you have learnt from the research into their practice, career, life and work.

Trips & Visits

The Tate Modern

The Tate Modern

Tate Modern has over a hundred years of art, from modernism in the early 1900s, to exciting works created today. This includes paintings, sculptures, and more made by artists all over the world such as Pablo Picasso, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, and Jenny Holzer.

Victoria and Albert museum

The Victoria and Albert museum

The V&A is the world’s leading museum of art and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects, books and archives that span over 5,000 years of human creativity. The museum holds many of the UK's national collections and houses some of the greatest resources for the study of architecture, furniture, fashion, textiles, photography, sculpture, painting, jewellery, glass, ceramics, book arts, Asian art and design, theatre and performance.

The British Museum

The British Museum

Discover two million years of human history and culture.

The Pitt Rivers Museum

The Pitt Rivers Museum


'The Pitt Rivers is packed beautifully, and practically to the ceiling with the most wonderful array of ethnographic objects, all soothingly lit and artistically arranged.' Bill Bryson, The Road to Little Dribbling

Creative Tasks

Art Clubs

  • Do attend KS3 Art Club to extend your practical skills.

  • We are also a Creative Hub for UAL Future Creatives Courses which run on Saturdays and Holidays.

  • UAL also offer online Future Creatives courses.

If you would like to extend your practice you may wish to learn more about this opportunity so please do look at their website or ask your Visual Arts teacher for further information.

Student Led Tasks

Arts Award

Find out more information about Arts Award to see if this is something you would be interested in participating in.

Ask your Visual Arts teacher for further information.