Art, craft & design Professional Development Courses
I deliver a number of Primary & Secondary art INSET CPD Continuing Professional Development training courses around the country, some hosted by myself and others for third-party training providers. Please visit the Learning Partnership for a list of forthcoming training courses.
CPD Courses with the Learning Partnership
AUTUMN TERM
26.9.23 Art Leader network
3. 10. 23 Raising Confidence to teach Art & Design FREE
4.10.23 Preparing for Ofsted deep dives in art & design
5.10.23 Using texts to support curriculum development
7.11.23 Art Leader network
14.11.23 Assessing Primary art
21.11.23 Teaching Primary Art with confidence
01.12.23 Primary Art Subject Leader conference, all day - online
07.12.23 Rethinking your SECONDARY Curriculum
SPRING TERM
23.1.24 Making meaningful, manageable progress in art
6.2.24 Art Leader network
7.3.24 Assessing art with confidence in the busy classroom
19.3.24 Art Leader network
25.4.24 Simply sketchbooks
SUMMER TERM
7.5.24 Art Leader network
21.5.24 Assessing art with confidence in the busy classroom KS3
11.6.24 Art Leader network
18.6.24 Drawing and mark making
11.7.24 Primary Painting
Art CPD Training Videos
Four CPD Training videos from Paul Carney to watch again and again, in your own time, as a whole school or individually. Purchase them as separate videos or as a whole suite of training. Pay online or email me to pay by school invoice.
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The Learning Partnership offers consultancy support for Art led by Paul as follows:
1. Art & Design health-check service
Art and Design is an enormously complex and difficult subject to teach, often requiring specialist help and support. Our expert art consultant Paul Carney can do a health-check audit of your current art provision to ensure your school is either on the right track or to enable you to put effective plans in place. The health check will take the form of an audit of your art planning, resources, delivery, staff training, etc. followed by a 2-hour online meeting with key stakeholders and a final report of recommendations.
This will ensure you have taken all the necessary steps you can to teach art well and give your children the best start in art and design you can.
1. You would complete a quick audit document we will send in advance.
2. Paul will study any planning and current resources you have in place, to evaluate your current provision.
3. Paul will arrange an online meeting with your subject lead and/or senior leaders to discuss your art provision.
4. We will write a report of the findings which will include recommendations for how the subject could move forward.
2. Art & Design Curriculum planning service
Planning exciting interesting art lessons that are properly sequenced and embedded into your topics or themes takes real expertise. With Paul Carney to help, you can take all the difficulty out of this. Paul can work alongside your teachers to discuss your children’s unique needs to plan engaging lesson ideas that are knowledge-rich and creative.
This service usually takes at least one hour per classroom teacher /year group and will result in 3 ideas for units of work per year – autumn, spring, and summer. The stages of each unit of work would be fleshed out and discussed so the teacher can write it up in the school’s own format later.
Comprising a full day equivalent (Six one-hour sessions) These sessions can be done via Zoom interviews online and Paul would only need your long-term plan of topic overviews.

As an NSEAD registered art consultant, I offer a friendly, professional art consultancy service to schools, from early years right through to Secondary GCSE. I've worked with infant schools to improve art assessment, delivered primary school CPD on skills and progression, worked with Subject Leaders to raise attainment and done whole school, secondary art department audits including formal lesson observations and department reviews. My over-arching strategy is to support the professional development of hard working professionals with positive and constructive advice for improvement.
My consultancy bookings are now being handled by Iain Simper of the Learning Partnership. For enquiries email Iain here
Training Courses
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