Using Primary Teaching Resources
Use our collection to teach a range of subjects.
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
• 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
• 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.
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.
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.
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
Inject creativity into the beginning or end of your teaching days with one of our 10-minute art activities.
Teach your students how artists and architects have worked with the body.
Teach your students about the climate crisis and how artists have responded to a changing world.