ART Year 7 – Students create art for themselves. Students come from a number of different primary schools and as such have a wide variety of art skills. Year 7 is about building upon these skills and developing all areas. They have the opportunity to work in specialised rooms for the first time and see real artists at work. Year 7 is about introducing students to a wide range of different media they have not explored before. Developing skills on how to use pencils, pens, biro, watercolours, acrylics and textiles to high standards and creating an atmosphere where they can enjoy the subject and be successful in their art. They develop their understanding of artists each half term, building up a knowledge base to support work in upper school. Towards the end of the year they have the opportunity to work on a larger scale piece of art allowing them to use skills and techniques developed over the year.
Year 8 – Students create art for a client. While they develop skills learnt in year 7, students also have the opportunity to develop new skills in photography, modern pop art and start to look at the art world around them with the ‘Our Town’ project. Basic drawing skills are further developed and students are encouraged to work on their art at home. Different artists remain a focus in each half term to support their own creative work and teach students an appreciation of art work. Our year 8 curriculum encourages self expression and builds confidence in our students’ art work while allowing them a sense of individual identity.
Year 9 – Students create art for the wider society. In year 9 they are beginning to experiment with a wider range of materials, techniques and processes. At the beginning of the year students follow a directed curriculum which builds further on the skills they have developed earlier in the key stage. Their work becomes quite experimental with a body of work linked to the collage artist Michael Mews. Towards the end of year 9 students are given the opportunity to merge the idea of natural forms and man made objects, they are encouraged to make creative decisions which helps them refine their ideas and experiments and their outcomes are more individual and expressive. The structure of the curriculum in Year 9 really prepares students for beginning their individual projects in year 10 and teaches them how to structure their investigations in order to successfully gather evidence towards each of the four GCSE assessment objectives.
| Year 7 | Year 8 | Year 9 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Key Concepts | Creating art for Yourself | Creating art for a Client | Creating art for the wider society | |
| Autumn Term (Sep-Oct) |
Formal Elements Students will gain an introduction and understanding of the basic principles of art, and understand how accurately they shade in order to make drawings look 3D and realistic. Students will practice and develop observational drawing skills and understand and demonstrate one point perspective. Students will explore primary, secondary and tertiary colours and investigate artists. | Photography Students will be introduced to the mixed media artist Michelle Robb. They will complete some contextual research and experiment with mixed media and photo editing techniques in the style of this artist. They will take some portrait photographs and learn how to manipulate these using Photoshop with a particular emphasis on using layers to build up an image. Students will also create a mixed media collage using portrait threshold drawings as a final outcome for the project. | Natural Forms – Researching students will spend some time learning how to research the work of other artists and craftspeople. They will begin to understand that research is the basis for any project and that their ideas are built upon good quality contextual research. | |
| Quality Mark Assessments | ||||
QM One point-perspective. Looking at the ability to draw cubes into a vanishing point and shade considering a light source. | The Quality Mark exercise will address strengths and weaknesses of individual students across the first tasks in the project. students will have the opportunity to make improvements to show that they have used their feedback. | During the first half term students will be given two sets of feedback which look holistically at the skills they have developed so far. | ||
| Autumn Term (Nov-Dec) |
Aboriginal Art Within this project students will explore the theme of aboriginal art and some of the different styles associated with it. They will gain a basic understanding of aboriginal culture, understand basic aboriginal colours, explore concentric circles and dot work and use real aboriginal examples to inspire their own designs. Students will be taught how to be considerate of colour and pattern and will experiment with a variety of media such as: pencil, coloured pencil, paint and oil pastel. | Textiles Students will explore and research different types of art textiles and develop descriptive and analytical writing skills when studying the work of a number of different textiles artists. They will experiment with some basic textiles techniques such as tie dye, polyblock printing and stenciling and learn who these are used within textiles industries. | Natural Forms – drawing and painting
Students will spend this half term learning and developing skills using pencils and paints such as watercolour and acrylics. students will study primary and secondary sources of fruit, vegetables and flowers to experiment using paint in different ways to recreate these natural objects. They will paint realistic representations by identifying dark and light tones and shades and work more expressively to change the mood and effect of a piece of work. students will develop their presentation skills and learn how to put together an experimentation page using images of pumpkins. | |
| Quality Mark Assessments | ||||
The Quality Mark will focus specifically on the polyblock printing exercise. students will receive feedback against the success criteria and will complete a written task to show they understand how to make a successful print. | Students will receive feedback following a drawing task and painting task and will be given ideas on how to improve their skills focusing on use of line, tone and shade in these mediums. | |||
| Spring Term (Jan-Feb) |
Bugs Within this project students will learn to further experiment with a variety of media and use mixed media within their work. They will learn how to blend and create tone with coloured pencil and use symmetry in art to produce accurate observational drawings. Students will complete a series of timed studies and explore techniques such as ‘bleed and dry’. The focus of the project is to improve and develop observational drawing skills. | Portraiture At the beginning of this half term students will compare and contrast the work of a number of different portrait artists who use different media and materials in their work. They will begin to record and draw facial features using traditional drawing materials such as pencil and pen. They will look at the proportion and symmetry of the human face and will use the knowledge they have learned to produce a realistic portrait. Later in the project students will develop their images into very simple portraits in the style of Julian Opie and will identify key characterics from his work to inform their own experiments. | Natural forms – Mixed Media students will analyse the work of the artist Michael Mews. They will look at the way he builds his compositions and uses a mixture of drawing, painting and collage within his work. students will begin to plan out their own outcomes in the style of Michael Mews and they will start to make their own creative decisions. | |
| Quality Mark Assessments | ||||
QM The quality mark for this half term will be based on a printing activity. Students will be assessed on their print design as well as how they execute the technique | Students will be assessed on their realistic drawing tasks. They will receive feedback on their drawings of facial features and will use this feedback to draw a full portrait to show they have used feedback to improve their drawing skills. | Students will receive feedback on their Michael Mews inspired outcome. This will focus on their ability to make creative decisions linked to the work of the artist. | ||
| Spring Term (Feb-April) |
Bugs- CONTINUED Within this project students will learn to further experiment with a variety of media and use mixed media within their work. They will learn how to blend and create tone with coloured pencil and use symmetry in art to produce accurate observational drawings. Students will complete a series of timed studies and explore techniques such as ‘bleed and dry’. The focus of the project is to improve and develop observational drawing skills. | Sweets Students will generate some initial contextual research on artists who have based their work on sweets. They will develop the analytical skills they have been taught earlier in KS3 to interpret images. students will recap basic drawing techniques and focus on refining and developing these skills using tone and shade by producing some initial pencil drawings from both primary and secondary sources. They will then use mixed media, pencil and paint to create some further experiments to develop and refine their ideas. | Man-Made – Drawing and Experimenting Students will study the artist Jim Dine and will produce a research page about him. They will develop the analytical skills they have learned previously to identify key aspects of his work. They will produce some initial drawings of man made objects but will then also develop and refine their ideas using other materials and techniques such as printmaking and stenciling to explore the theme. They will also have the opportunity to look at some more modern artists to inform their thinking. | |
| Quality Mark Assessments | ||||
Students will receive feedback on their mixed media response. Their creative decision making will be analysed and they will have an opportunity to continue to develop their outcome idea following feedback from their teacher. | Students will be assessed on their ability to analyse the work of an artist. They will also receive feedback on how they have used Jim Dine’s ideas to inspire their own work. | |||
| Summer Term (Feb-May) |
Mixed Media/ Natural Forms The aim of this project is for students to be able to understand the purpose of mixed media in art. They will be able to use more than one media to create a piece of artwork, explore artists who specialise in mixed media and develop the use of a range of media within lessons. Students will also understand and be able to demonstrate what media works well with others and experiment with collage. | Pop Art Students will spend some time learning about this famous art movement. They will study the work of Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Jasper Johns and analyse their work. They will investigate how pop art challenged traditional approaches to art and culture in the 1950’s and 60’s and form their own opinions. students will experiment using drawing, painting and printmaking to design their own pop art inspired image to challenge current views or ideas. | Man Made – Students will spend this half term working in the medium of print. They will learn about different printing processes and techniques. They will study the work of a number of different printmakers and use their work to help them develop ideas based on the theme of ‘Man Made’. | |
| Quality Mark Assessments | ||||
QM Mixed media florals. Students will be assessed on their use of several media within one piece. | This half term students will be assessed on their research task. Feedback will focus on their ability to describe and analyse work from the Pop Art era. | This half term students will receive feedback following experiments with two different types of printmaking. | ||
| Summer Term (May-July) |
Mixed Media/ Natural Forms- Continued The aim of this project is for students to be able to understand the purpose of mixed media in art. They will be able to use more than one media to create a piece of artwork, explore artists who specialise in mixed media and develop the use of a range of media within lessons. Students will also understand and be able to demonstrate what media works well with others and experiment with collage. | Our Town Students will investigate the spaces around them. They will record ideas by taking photographs of and drawing local buildings. They will produce some detailed drawings of texture and pattern that they find in their environment using a number of different materials and will make creative decisions about how to best represent these. They will summarise their findings and ideas by creating postcards to celebrate Boldon | Natural vs Man Made In the last half term Year 9 students will use the knowledge and skills they have learned to design and create their own project outcome. They will recap key concepts including drawing and painting and will experiment and refine their ideas. They will identify their own artists from a list to inform their work whilst working independently. | |
| Quality Mark Assessments | ||||
The QM will be on the students plan for their final outcome. They will receive feedback on what they intend to produce in order to ensure it is the most successful. | Students will receive feedback on their plan for the outcome of this project. This will ensure that students can share their creative ideas with their teacher in order to create the most successful outcome. | Students will receive feedback on their creative ideas for their outcome. Feedback will focus on their ability to create their own work after researching contextual links. | ||
Year 7
Key Concepts
Creating art for Yourself
Quality Mark AssessmentsAutumn Term
(Sep-Oct)
Formal Elements
Students will gain an introduction and understanding of the basic principles of art, and understand how accurately they shade in order to make drawings look 3D and realistic. Students will practice and develop observational drawing skills and understand and demonstrate one point perspective. Students will explore primary, secondary and tertiary colours and investigate artists.
Quality Mark AssessmentsQM
One point-perspective. Looking at the ability to draw cubes into a vanishing point and shade considering a light source.
Autumn Term
(Nov-Dec)
Aboriginal Art
Within this project students will explore the theme of aboriginal art and some of the different styles associated with it. They will gain a basic understanding of aboriginal culture, understand basic aboriginal colours, explore concentric circles and dot work and use real aboriginal examples to inspire their own designs. Students will be taught how to be considerate of colour and pattern and will experiment with a variety of media such as: pencil, coloured pencil, paint and oil pastel.
Quality Mark AssessmentsSpring Term
(Jan-Feb)
Bugs
Within this project students will learn to further experiment with a variety of media and use mixed media within their work. They will learn how to blend and create tone with coloured pencil and use symmetry in art to produce accurate observational drawings. Students will complete a series of timed studies and explore techniques such as ‘bleed and dry’. The focus of the project is to improve and develop observational drawing skills.
Quality Mark AssessmentsQM
The quality mark for this half term will be based on a printing activity. Students will be assessed on their print design as well as how they execute the technique
Spring Term
(Feb-April)
Bugs- CONTINUED
Within this project students will learn to further experiment with a variety of media and use mixed media within their work. They will learn how to blend and create tone with coloured pencil and use symmetry in art to produce accurate observational drawings. Students will complete a series of timed studies and explore techniques such as ‘bleed and dry’. The focus of the project is to improve and develop observational drawing skills.
Quality Mark AssessmentsSummer Term
(Feb-May)
Mixed Media/ Natural Forms
The aim of this project is for students to be able to understand the purpose of mixed media in art. They will be able to use more than one media to create a piece of artwork, explore artists who specialise in mixed media and develop the use of a range of media within lessons. Students will also understand and be able to demonstrate what media works well with others and experiment with collage.
Quality Mark AssessmentsQM
Mixed media florals. Students will be assessed on their use of several media within one piece.
Summer Term
(May-July)
Mixed Media/ Natural Forms- Continued
The aim of this project is for students to be able to understand the purpose of mixed media in art. They will be able to use more than one media to create a piece of artwork, explore artists who specialise in mixed media and develop the use of a range of media within lessons. Students will also understand and be able to demonstrate what media works well with others and experiment with collage.
Quality Mark AssessmentsThe QM will be on the students plan for their final outcome. They will receive feedback on what they intend to produce in order to ensure it is the most successful.
Year 8
Key Concepts
Creating art for a Client
Quality Mark AssessmentsAutumn Term
(Sep-Oct)
Photography
Students will be introduced to the mixed media artist Michelle Robb. They will complete some contextual research and experiment with mixed media and photo editing techniques in the style of this artist. They will take some portrait photographs and learn how to manipulate these using Photoshop with a particular emphasis on using layers to build up an image. Students will also create a mixed media collage using portrait threshold drawings as a final outcome for the project.
Quality Mark AssessmentsThe Quality Mark exercise will address strengths and weaknesses of individual students across the first tasks in the project. students will have the opportunity to make improvements to show that they have used their feedback.
Autumn Term
(Nov-Dec)
Textiles
Students will explore and research different types of art textiles and develop descriptive and analytical writing skills when studying the work of a number of different textiles artists. They will experiment with some basic textiles techniques such as tie dye, polyblock printing and stenciling and learn who these are used within textiles industries.
Quality Mark AssessmentsThe Quality Mark will focus specifically on the polyblock printing exercise. students will receive feedback against the success criteria and will complete a written task to show they understand how to make a successful print.
Spring Term
(Jan-Feb)
Portraiture
At the beginning of this half term students will compare and contrast the work of a number of different portrait artists who use different media and materials in their work. They will begin to record and draw facial features using traditional drawing materials such as pencil and pen. They will look at the proportion and symmetry of the human face and will use the knowledge they have learned to produce a realistic portrait. Later in the project students will develop their images into very simple portraits in the style of Julian Opie and will identify key characterics from his work to inform their own experiments.
Quality Mark AssessmentsStudents will be assessed on their realistic drawing tasks. They will receive feedback on their drawings of facial features and will use this feedback to draw a full portrait to show they have used feedback to improve their drawing skills.
Spring Term
(Feb-April)
Sweets
Students will generate some initial contextual research on artists who have based their work on sweets. They will develop the analytical skills they have been taught earlier in KS3 to interpret images. students will recap basic drawing techniques and focus on refining and developing these skills using tone and shade by producing some initial pencil drawings from both primary and secondary sources. They will then use mixed media, pencil and paint to create some further experiments to develop and refine their ideas.
Quality Mark AssessmentsStudents will receive feedback on their mixed media response. Their creative decision making will be analysed and they will have an opportunity to continue to develop their outcome idea following feedback from their teacher.
Summer Term
(Feb-May)
Pop Art
Students will spend some time learning about this famous art movement. They will study the work of Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Jasper Johns and analyse their work. They will investigate how pop art challenged traditional approaches to art and culture in the 1950’s and 60’s and form their own opinions. students will experiment using drawing, painting and printmaking to design their own pop art inspired image to challenge current views or ideas.
Quality Mark AssessmentsThis half term students will be assessed on their research task. Feedback will focus on their ability to describe and analyse work from the Pop Art era.
Summer Term
(May-July)
Our Town
Students will investigate the spaces around them. They will record ideas by taking photographs of and drawing local buildings. They will produce some detailed drawings of texture and pattern that they find in their environment using a number of different materials and will make creative decisions about how to best represent these. They will summarise their findings and ideas by creating postcards to celebrate Boldon
Quality Mark AssessmentsStudents will receive feedback on their plan for the outcome of this project. This will ensure that students can share their creative ideas with their teacher in order to create the most successful outcome.
Year 9
Key Concepts
Creating art for the wider society
Quality Mark AssessmentsAutumn Term
(Sep-Oct)
Natural Forms – Researching
students will spend some time learning how to research the work of other artists and craftspeople. They will begin to understand that research is the basis for any project and that their ideas are built upon good quality contextual research.
Quality Mark AssessmentsDuring the first half term students will be given two sets of feedback which look holistically at the skills they have developed so far.
Autumn Term
(Nov-Dec)
Natural Forms – drawing and painting
Students will spend this half term learning and developing skills using pencils and paints such as watercolour and acrylics. students will study primary and secondary sources of fruit, vegetables and flowers to experiment using paint in different ways to recreate these natural objects. They will paint realistic representations by identifying dark and light tones and shades and work more expressively to change the mood and effect of a piece of work. students will develop their presentation skills and learn how to put together an experimentation page using images of pumpkins.
Quality Mark AssessmentsStudents will receive feedback following a drawing task and painting task and will be given ideas on how to improve their skills focusing on use of line, tone and shade in these mediums.
Spring Term
(Jan-Feb)
Natural forms – Mixed Media
students will analyse the work of the artist Michael Mews. They will look at the way he builds his compositions and uses a mixture of drawing, painting and collage within his work. students will begin to plan out their own outcomes in the style of Michael Mews and they will start to make their own creative decisions.
Quality Mark AssessmentsStudents will receive feedback on their Michael Mews inspired outcome. This will focus on their ability to make creative decisions linked to the work of the artist.
Spring Term
(Feb-April)
Man-Made – Drawing and Experimenting
Students will study the artist Jim Dine and will produce a research page about him. They will develop the analytical skills they have learned previously to identify key aspects of his work. They will produce some initial drawings of man made objects but will then also develop and refine their ideas using other materials and techniques such as printmaking and stenciling to explore the theme. They will also have the opportunity to look at some more modern artists to inform their thinking.
Quality Mark AssessmentsStudents will be assessed on their ability to analyse the work of an artist. They will also receive feedback on how they have used Jim Dine’s ideas to inspire their own work.
Summer Term
(Feb-May)
Man Made –
Students will spend this half term working in the medium of print. They will learn about different printing processes and techniques. They will study the work of a number of different printmakers and use their work to help them develop ideas based on the theme of ‘Man Made’.
Quality Mark AssessmentsThis half term students will receive feedback following experiments with two different types of printmaking.
Summer Term
(May-July)
Natural vs Man Made
In the last half term Year 9 students will use the knowledge and skills they have learned to design and create their own project outcome. They will recap key concepts including drawing and painting and will experiment and refine their ideas. They will identify their own artists from a list to inform their work whilst working independently.
Quality Mark AssessmentsStudents will receive feedback on their creative ideas for their outcome. Feedback will focus on their ability to create their own work after researching contextual links.