ART

CURRICULUM

The study of Art and Design leads to an understanding of the importance of design in everyday life. Currently, the creative industry in the UK is growing at a significant rate, and the demand for graduates with good specialist art and design skills is enormous.

The departmental aim is to provide the foundation of the required specialist art and design skills to lead into the creative industries. The department works towards providing an environment which nurtures and actively encourages creativity and talent. Students are exposed to a wide range of media and techniques and develop their appreciation of art through the generation of their own work and through the opportunity to see artwork in gallery settings.

Alongside the practical expertise, students will also learn transferable skills such as: creative and analytical thinking, problem solving, working independently, research methods, fine motor skills, understanding how context shapes meaning, and how to communicate effectively.

Our aim is to celebrate and encourage all of our students’ creativity and individuality.

Year 7
Year 8
Year 9
Year 10
Year 11

By the end of year 7, students would be expected to recognise the formal visual elements of art; Line, Tone, Colour, Texture, Shape and Space. They will demonstrate limited skills in drawing, painting, collage, printmaking and in clay/paper sculptural work. This will be under the following topics: Op Art; Pop Art; Ocean; Architecture, Africa and Aboriginal Art.

Students would be expected to know how to demonstrate at least emerging level block and blended tone, smoothly applied and show their knowledge on colour theory, in particular primary, secondary and tertiary colours and warm and cool colour groupings.

Throughout the year students will explore artists such as Bridget Riley, Andy Warhol, Julian Opie and Jason Scarpace and would be expected to recognise what is needed to demonstrate successful research on artists work to an emerging standard.

Students will demonstrate emerging skills in the use of annotation, through descriptive research, evaluations, refining and self/peer assessing of their work.

Key skill level descriptions – Limited, emerging, undefined

By the end of year 8, students will demonstrate basic development in their skills in drawing, painting, collage, printmaking and in clay/paper sculptural work. This will be under themes such as Viewpoint, Cubism, Sweets & Treats and Graffiti. They will show further developed skills showing some relevance in observational and perspective drawing and abstract forms.

Students will be expected to have extended their colour theory knowledge and application when showing at least basic demonstration of complementary and harmonious colours and tints and shades, accurately and smoothly. Students will explore the work of Pablo Pasco, Wayne Thiebaud, Claus Oldenburg, Banksy and Roy Lichtenstein and would be expected to recognise showing a basic standard of what is needed to demonstrate successful research on artists work to a basic standard.

Students will demonstrate basic skills in the use of annotation, through descriptive research, evaluations, refining and self/peer assessing of their work.

Key skill level descriptions – Some relevance, basic, undeveloped.

By the end of year 9, students would be expected to show competency when consolidating their skills in drawing, painting, collage, printmaking and clay, under themes such as portraiture, culture and in a GCSE mini foundation project. They will further develop skills in using composition and photo montage. They will also competent ways of demonstrating tone; cross hatching, hatching, pointillism and scrumbling within these themes.

Students will be expected to be able to show informed and appropriate decisions within their work when selecting from the varied artist provided that are linked to their theme, that they then independently explore.

Students will demonstrate competent skills in the use of annotation, through descriptive research, evaluations, refining and self/peer assessing of their work.

Key skill level descriptions – Competent, informed, appropriate

Using their consolidate skills form Key Stage 3, by the end of year 10 students would be expected to show effective and well-informed knowledge and understanding in drawing, painting, collage, printmaking and clay. Student will explore in detail the OCR GCSE course assessment objectives completing part one of their coursework component 1. This will by completed under themes such as Pattern, Detail and Identity. All work completed within these themes should be expected to be effective and well considered in the skill level due to it being part of the 60% of the final GCSE grade.

Students will be expected to be able to show well informed and well considered decisions within their work when selecting from the varied artist provided that are linked to their theme, that they then independently explore.

Students will demonstrate effective skills in the use of annotation, through descriptive research, evaluations, refining and self/peer assessing of their work.

Key skill level descriptions – Well informed, effective, well considered

By the end of Year 11, students would be expected to show detailed, confident and fully developed knowledge and understanding in drawing, painting, collage, printmaking and clay. It is during this year, that they will be able to pursue in depth a selected medium of their choice, that they are most successful in.

Students are expected to demonstrate with confidence, the OCR GCSE course assessment objectives with both component 1 (coursework) and component 2 (exam preparatory work and final exam). This will be completed under themes such as Identity in component 1 and in component 2 students will be expected to produce personal work in response to 1 of 5 starting points on the OCR externally set assignment paper. Following a preparatory period, pupils will have 10 hours of supervised time to create a refined and meaningful outcome.

All work completed is expected to be detailed, confident, in-depth and fully developed in the skill level due to it being part of the 60% in component 1 and 40% of component 2, of the final GCSE grade.

Students will be expected to be able to show in-depth and fully developed decisions within their work, when selecting purposeful artists relating to their individual and personal theme, that they then independently explore.

Students will demonstrate confident and in-depth skills in the use of annotation, through descriptive research, evaluations, refining and self/peer assessing of their work.

Key skill level descriptions – Detailed, confident, in-depth, fully developed