Using Primary Teaching Resources

Using Primary Teaching Resources

Use our collection to teach a range of subjects.

- Teachers explore the galleries
  
  Photo: Alessandra Sormani
  
  About our resources
  
  Use art from our artists and collection to teach your students about the climate, citizenship, emotions, and more.
  
  Teaching with our resources
  
  Our resources connect art to the national curriculum. All resources include:
  
  Curriculum links
  
  Teach students art, geography, english, science and more using key works from RAs and collection.
  
  Artist and artwork information
  
  Encourage students to learn about great artists, craft makers and designers with close looking questions, discussion prompts, and high resolution image slides.
  
  Activities
  
  Enable proficiency in drawing, painting, sculpture and other art, craft and design techniques with our activities.

Curriculum

Alongside subjects like geography, english, mathematics, and science, art and design underpins all of our resources.

Art and design curriculum
- KS1
  
  • Use a range of materials creatively to design and make
  
  • Use drawing, painting, and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences, and imagination
  
  • Develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form, and space
  
  • Discover the work of a range of artists and designers and make links to their own work
  
  • Describe the differences and similarities between different practices and disciplines
  
  • Make the link between artists and their own work
- KS2
  
  • Create sketch books to record their observations and use them to review and revisit ideas
  
  • Develop techniques, including control and use of materials, with creativity, experimentation, and awareness of different kinds of art, craft and design
  
  • Improve mastery of art and design techniques including drawing, painting, and sculpture with a range of materials
  
  • Discover great artists, architects, and designers in history

Page sections

Each page features art you can visit here at the RA, classroom activities, and an image gallery.

- Young people in the Collection Gallery
  
  photo: Justine Trickett
  
  Visit the RA
  
  Any time you see a green banner with the title ‘Visit the RA’, it indicates a work of art you can visit here at the RA.
- Families working together at a family studio
  
  Roy Matthews
  
  Activities
  
  There are classroom activities at the bottom of each page. You’ll find a range of group and individual activities using easy to find materials.
- Young Artists' Summer Show 2020 installation shot
  
  Image Gallery
  
  You can use the image gallery as a slideshow in your classroom. The image gallery contains works of art from our collection, by Royal Academicians, and from artists from the annual Young Artists’ Summer Show.

Teach
- Draw together
  
  Draw together in a pair or team and explore ideas of leadership, decision-making, ownership and respect. Sketch
  
  Sketchbook starters
  
  Inject creativity into the beginning or end of your teaching days with one of our 10-minute art activities.
  
  Warm up
- Dhruva Mistry RA, Spatial Diagram - 2, 1988-90.
  
  View object details
  
  Part of the RA CollectionBronze. 420 mm x 310 mm x 210 mm. © Royal Academy of Arts. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London.
  
  Body and space teaching resource
  
  Teach your students how artists and architects have worked with the body.
  
  Teach body and space
- Sir John Akomfrah RA, Mnemosyne, 2010.
  
  View object details
  
  Part of the RA Collection© Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London.
  
  Climate teaching resource
  
  Teach your students about the climate crisis and how artists have responded to a changing world.
  
  Teach climate