Art in the Curriculum.

The department endeavours to deliver an effective, diverse and a stimulating KS3 scheme of

work which is delivered in one hour lessons per week over the three year period.

A wide variety of teaching and learning methods. These include:

Visual stimuli using a variety of sources i.e. power point presentations, posters,

photographs, hand-outs, display, information boards, books, artefacts, original works

of art, examples of students’ work.

Sharing aims, objectives and assessment criteria with students

AFL and peer assessment

Quality practical demonstrations showing how to use materials, processes and

techniques and how to develop and extend work

Proving opportunities for individual choice in tasks

Use specialist vocabulary during teacher input and in dialogue with students

Skills practise covering a wide range of materials, techniques & , processes in both

2D & 3D

Use of both the design and expressive processes

Work on a variety of size and scale

Repetition to re-enforce concepts and techniques

Purpose of study

Art, craft and design embody some of the highest forms of human creativity. A high-quality

art and design education should engage, inspire and challenge pupils, equipping them with

the knowledge and skills to experiment, invent and create their own works of art, craft and

design. As pupils progress, they should be able to think critically and develop a more

rigorous understanding of art and design. They should also know how art and design both

reflect and shape our history, and contribute to the culture, creativity and wealth of our

nation.

Aims

The national curriculum for art and design aims to ensure that all pupils:

1. Produce creative work, exploring their ideas and recording their experiences

2. Become proficient in drawing, painting, sculpture and other art, craft and design

techniques

3. Evaluate and analyse creative works using the language of art, craft and design

4. Know about great artists, craft makers and designers, and understand the historical

and cultural development of their art forms.

Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2

Year

7

Introduction to

the Elements of

art-basic skills

in drawing and

painting

Application of

the Elements

of art – Still

life drawing,

painting & 3D

Chinese

Willow

Pattern Composition

/ designing

Chinese vase

Designing

and making

3Dand

painting

African Art

2D mixed

media / low

relief

Greenman Composition

and painting

October: Diwali October:

Halloween

Mexican Day of

the dead

November:

Remembrance

Day

December:

Christmas

February:

Chinese new

year Valentine’s

Day

April: Easter

May: Mother’s

day

May: Japanese

children’s day

June: Father’s

day

Year

8 History of the

written word /

presentation /

lettering

Medieval era

The book of

Kells/

Gargoyles

/monsters, -

Illuminated

letters drawing,

mixed media,

Medieval era

Illuminated

letters /

stained glass

Designing, 3D

and painting

The Italian

Renaissance

Drawing /3D

The

Northern

Renaissance Image anaysis

(critical

studies) /

Drawing

Impression

-ism

(Monet)

Drawing /,

painting

techniques/

Pointillism

Post-

Impression

-ism (Van

Gogh

/Cezanne) Enlargement Painting techniques

November:

Remembrance April: Easter

May: Mother’s

June: Father’s

day

Day

December:

Christmas

day

Year

9

Cubism :

Image analysis, drawing,

designing,

composition,

mixed media

Expressionism

/Abstraction

Kandinsky

Composition

painting

Surrealism Dali /

Magritte

Drawing,

Painting &

3D

Op art Perspective

Pop art

Drawing,

painting, 3D

Architect-

ure Stephen

Wiltshire

Structures/

panoramic

composition

/mark

making

November:

Remembrance

Day

December:

Christmas

April: Easter

May: Mother’s

day

June: Father’s

day

GCSE Art: Personal Portfolio

Natural Forms

Students produce a Portfolio of work based on two themes, the first of which is ‘Natural

Forms’ Students will research and select from a wide range of source material to produce

studies from both primary and secondary sources, and including analytical studies. The work

of artists working within the theme such as Andy Goldsworthy, Karl Blossfeldt, Georgia

O’Keefe, Frida Kahlo, Archimboldo, William Morris, landscape artists for example, will be

taught through critical analysis and annotation will increase perception and understanding,

helping to build specialist language.

Students will use a variety of media, such as pencil, crayon, oil and chalk pastels, watercolour

crayons, pen, ink, collage and different types of paint including watercolours, PVA and

poster paint; and techniques such as tonal shading, cross-hatching, stippling, impasto, low

relief collage, press printing etc. Three dimensional work will include media such as papier-

mache, modroc, clay and card construction. The formal elements of art: line, tone, shape,

pattern, texture, form and colour will be further explored throughout and ideas will be

developed on a variety of scales.

Students will visit the Leicester University Botanical Gardens annual sculpture Exhibition.

Manmade

.

The second thematic area of enquiry is based on ’Manmade’.

Students will further practise and develop technical and media skills, exploring man-made

objects/environments, providing contrasting source material.

Analysis and arrangement of different subject matter with reference to artists work will

develop compositional, technical and media understanding and will allow for students’

personal responses.

Research studies are selected to form different still life compositions and with reference to

different artists such as Pieter Claesz, Giorgio Morandi, Patrick Caulfield, Lisa Milroy,

Picasso, Tony Cragg, Warhol, Oldenburg, are developed into different visual outcomes using

different media, on different scales and in both 2D and 3D.

Additionally, students may explore the built environment, looking at the work of Stephen

Wiltshire, the Boyle Family as well as architects.

The art exam is an externally set assignment and students create their final outcome over a

ten hour period.

Opportunities to work at lunch time and after school are available.

Year 10 (new specification: GCSE Art, Craft & Design):

Qualification aims and objectives This GCSE Art and Design qualification requires students to: ● actively engage in the creative process of art, craft and design in order to develop as effective and independent learners, and as critical and reflective thinkers with enquiring minds ● develop creative, imaginative and intuitive capabilities when exploring and making images, artefacts and products ● become confident in taking risks and learn from experience when exploring and experimenting with ideas, processes, media, materials and techniques ● develop critical understanding through investigative, analytical, experimental, practical, technical and expressive skills ● develop and refine ideas and proposals, personal outcomes or solutions with increasing independence ● acquire and develop technical skills through working with a broad range of media, materials, techniques, processes and technologies with purpose and intent ● develop knowledge and understanding of art, craft and design in historical and contemporary contexts, societies and cultures ● develop an awareness of the different roles and individual work practices evident in the production of art, craft and design in the creative and cultural industries ● develop an awareness of the purposes, intentions and functions of art, craft and design in a variety of contexts and as appropriate to students’ own work

● demonstrate safe working practices in art, craft and design.

Assessment:

A01: Develop ideas through investigations, demonstrating critical understanding of sources

A02: Refine work by exploring ideas, selecting and experimenting with media, materials,

techniques and processes

A03: Record ideas, observations and insights relevant to intentions as work progresses

A04: Present a personal and meaningful response that realises intentions and demonstrates

understanding of visual language

Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2

Year

10 AO3

Natural

Forms:

i)leaves

ii)flowers

Annotation

AO1

Critical

analysis of

artists’ work

and students’

own

compositional

ideas using

AO1 studies

inspired by:

i)Goldsworthy

ii)O’Keefe

AO2

Refinement

of work in

autumn 1,

experiment-

ation with

meda/ view

found areas

enlarged

AO4

Realisation

of final

pieces

AO3

Natural Forms:

i) fruit and

vegetables

AO1 Critical

analysis of

artists’ work

and students’

own

compositional

ideas using

AO1 studies

inspired by:

i)Frida Kahlo

/Archimboldo

iii)Lichtenstein

AO2

Refinement

of work in

Spring 1,

experiment-

ation with

media/

view found

areas

enlarged

AO4

Realisation

of final

pieces

Re-visiting

all Natural

Forms

work,

expanding

upon all

AO’s.

Introduction

of new

theme:

Manmade

AO3

i) objects

with

different

forms and

surface

textures

Annotation

AO3

Manmade

i) objects

with different

forms and

surface

textures

Annotation

AO1

Critical

analysis of

artists’ work

and students’

own

compositional

ideas using

AO1 studies

inspired by:

i) Claesz

ii) Caulfield

Year 11 (current specification GCSE Art & Design): Key subject aims This specification aims to develop: ■ creative and imaginative ability and the practical skills for engaging with and for communicating and expressing original ideas, feelings and meanings in art, craft and design ■ investigative, analytical, experimental and interpretative capabilities, aesthetic understanding and critical and enquiring minds, with increasing independence ■ cultural knowledge and understanding of art, craft and design and of the media and technologies used in different times, contexts and societies ■ personal attributes including self-confidence, resilience, perseverance, self-discipline and commitment.

Assessment: AO1: Develop their ideas through investigations informed by contextual and other sources,

demonstrating analytical and cultural understanding (generating and developing ideas informed by primary and contextual sources) AO2: Refine their ideas through experimenting and selecting appropriate resources, media,

materials, techniques and processes (refining their ideas through experimenting with media, and developing and applying skills) AO3: Record ideas, observations and insights relevant to their intentions in visual and/or other

forms. (researching, recording, analysing and reviewing their own and others’ work) AO4: Present a personal, informed and meaningful response demonstrating analytical and critical understanding realising intentions and, where appropriate, making connections between visual,

written, oral or other elements (selecting, creating, realising and presenting personally developed outcome(s). Autumn 1 Autumn 2 Spring 1 Spring 2 Summer 1 Summer 2

Year

11

AO3

Manmade

i) objects with

different

forms and

surface

textures

Annotation

AO1

Critical

analysis of

artists’ work

and students’

own

compositional

ideas using

AO1 studies

inspired by:

i)Cubism

ii)Warhol/

Oldenberg

AO2

Refinement

of work in

autumn 1,

experiment-

ation with

media/ view

found areas

enlarged.

Sculpture

AO4

Realisation

of final

pieces

Exam question

AO3

Preparatory

studies

AO3 AO1

Critical

analysis of

artists’ work

and students’

own

compositional

ideas using

AO1 studies

inspired by:

i) Caulfield

ii)Cubism

AO2

Refinement

of work in

autumn 1,

experiment-

ation with

media/

view found

areas

enlarged.

maquette

EXAM

Sustained

Study

AO4

Realisation

of final

piece

GCSE Results 2016

Class

3 levels progress % of students meeting target

2016 Actual

2016 Predicted

81% Overall 74% 68%