What we learn – Key Stage 3 Curriculum: Art
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year 7 | Baseline Assessment and introduction to drawing skills | Applying colour Artist link: Vincent Van Gogh | Expressive Mark making Artist link: Vincent Van Gogh | Printmaking and collage Artist link: Henri Matisse | Exploring Identity Artist Link: Jean-Michel Basquiat | Sculpture project Artist link: Niki de St Phalle |
| Year 8 | Baseline Assessment and mark making Artist Link: Giorgio Morandi | Day of the Dead Artist link: Eduardo Posado | Colour Theory Artist link: Andy Warhol | Portraits Artist link: Pablo Picasso and Shephard Fairey | Graphic Logo Artist Link: Eduardo Paolozzi | Graphic Painting Artist Link: Michael Craig-Martin |
| Year 9 | Baseline Assessment and technical drawing skills | Drawing Natural Forms Artist Link: Georgia O’Keeffe | Natural Forms Sculpture Artist Link: Yayoi Kusama | Pattern and Print Artist Link: Angie Lewin | Macro Photography Artist link: Karl Blossfeldt | GCSE Skills around the theme ‘Collections’ |
What we learn – Key Stage 4 Curriculum: GCSE Art and Design
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year 10 | Observational Drawing | Experimentation with Media | Artist Research | Artist Response | Idea generation | Final Piece |
| Year 11 | Skills Development | Present Project & written response | Exam Research | Exam Preparation | Exam | Exhibition |
Over two years, students will explore visual art techniques, through artist studies and experimentation with materials and processes. This is a chance to develop drawing skills as well as exploring photography, textiles, sculpture and graphics. You will explore a theme resulting in high quality final pieces for public display. The qualification is made up of your portfolio work (60%) and an externally set task (40%) in which the examining body will set a theme for you to explore.
Choose this course if:
- You enjoy the creative process, working on sustained and ambitious projects
- You want to build resilience through risk taking and experimentation
- You want to explore your personal thoughts and ideas through a personalised curriculum
- You want to develop independence through responding to artworks and in depth artist research
What we learn – Key Stage 3 Curriculum: Design and Technology
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year 7 | Safety and Hygiene | Weighing and measuring | Time management | Combining a range of materials and ingredients | Designing for yourself | Designing for someone else |
| Year 8 | Innovation, function and appeal | Communicating ideas | Moral and ethical design | Properties and characteristics of materials and ingredients | Sustainable design project | Sustainable design project |
| Year 9 | Working with a client | Research and using data | Design and market a product | Make and sell a product | Make and sell a product | Make and sell a product |
What we learn – Key Stage 4/5 Curriculum: Design and Technology – BTEC Home Cooking Skills
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KS4/5 | Health and safety Healthy living | Main course and desert practice | Plan and make exam meal Evaluate exam meal | Ways to economise Sharing skills with others | Food life skills (internally verified extension course) | Food life skills (internally verified extension course) |
What we learn – Key Stage 5 Curriculum: Art Design Technology
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year 12 | Focusing interests and arts skills audit | Researching professional practitioners | Discovering arts opportunities | Participating in the arts | Planning an independent arts project | Delivering an independent arts project and evaluation |
| Year 13 | In depth exploration in to a chosen arts discipline | Making connections with practicing artists | Planning for a future within your chosen arts discipline | Work Experience in the wider arts community | Directing and managing an art project with a small team | Collating evidence and public showing |
Arts Award
This is your opportunity to grow your own talents, explore the arts, be a creative leader and get yourself a qualification. You can do an Arts Award in any area of the arts from fashion to poetry, rapping to dancing, and animation to film and we will strive to adapt the course to celebrate your individuality and existing skills. You can be the creator or performer of your own work, or develop your skills in essential roles like marketing or stage management. You’ll create a personal portfolio that shows off your creativity and results in a nationally recognised qualification.
Choose this course if:
- You are a creative, but not interested in traditional visual art such as drawing
- You want to pursue a career in the arts
- You want to develop leadership skills
- You want to work within groups and participate in the wider arts community
What can I do with Art?
The value of the creative industries is worth over 100 billion and is the fastest growing area of UK economics. An arts qualification is desirable for employment within the creative industries which includes the following:
- Advertising and Marketing
- Architecture
- Crafts
- Product; Graphic and Fashion Design
- Film, TV, video and photography
- IT, Software and Creative Tech
- Publishing
- Museums, Galleries and Libraries
- Music, Performance and Visual Arts
- Animation and VFX
- Video Games
