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%