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7

YEAR

8

YEAR

READING

EXPLORING 

DEVELOPING 

Colour

Be Brave!

Pictures in Music

Be Curious!

Cultural Influences

Portraits

World Appreciation

Question!

Man Made Environment

Big Picture, Fine Detail

Messages - Alphabetica

Have a Point of View

Year 7 - To know ways to explore the world of art with curiosity based upon a foundation block of core skills and emerging contextual understanding. 

THINK LIKE AN ARTIST

BE CURIOUS

BE BRAVE

STEAL

QUESTION

Introduction to Art, What is Art?

Wassily Kandinsky

Exploration

Responding to the work of Olan

Ventura

Introduction to colour theory. Colour pencil and blending

HAVE A POINT OF VIEW

THINK BIG PICTURE, FINE DETAIL

PAUSE FOR THOUGHT

ACCEPT FAILURE

EMERGING KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL

CREATIVE THINKING

RECORDING OBSERVATIONS

PRACTICAL SKILLS

CREATIVE SKILLS AND TECHNIQUES

EXPERIMENTING & DEVELOPING

PERSONAL RESPONSE

RECORDING PHOTOGRAPHICALLY

Observational drawing and colour.

Spring Term

Year 8 Options

Senbanjo drawing

LAOAU SENBANJO - artist enquiry

Senbanjo reading task

Nigel Peake Transcription, Medium investigation

Beatriz Milhazes digital painting

Mark making with paint/ brush control

Summer Term

Observational eye drawing

Creating a personal response to portraiture

Summer Term

Spring Term

Responding to the work of Cavolo, Dubuffet, Van Gogh and Giacometti

Responding to the portraits of Frida Kahlo

Personal response to mark making with paint

Frida Kahlo reading task

Day of the dead doodle

Van Gogh research page with transcriptions

Reading task - Kandinsky

Responding to music through shape and colour

Responding digitally to Melissa McCraken

Kandinsky research page with transcriptions

Personal response to Kandinsky, using colour theory

Camille Walala research page

Senbanjo digital trainer design

Senbanjo SIME analysis

Temi Coker untangling task

Portrait photoshoot to develop into a Temi Coker digitaL FINAL

How do we tell a message in Art?

Jasper Johns layering

Imaginative altered books

Robert Indiana Artist Enquiry & Transcription

Is Graffiti Art?

Scenario and Planning

Designing Outcome

Final Piece – Investigating with a range of mediums

Collage response to Lizzie Prestt

Enrich history of modern art, wider cultural and more contemporary connections

Planning Final Piece

Using a range of Artist skills that they have learnt in Years 7&8 to conclude KS3 Fine Art

Final Piece for 3D Art and Design

Creating Art that causes a social issue for the modern world.

CTA 1 - Observational drawing

CTA 2 - Observational drawing

Record images to develop a personal digital collage

CTA 1 - Observational drawing

CTA 2 - Observational drawing

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9

YEAR

YEAR

YEAR

10

11

COLOUR

ENRICHING EXPERIENCE OF VISUAL ARTS

THE FORMAL ELEMENTS 60%

ENHANCING

REFINING 

IMPLEMENTING 

EXTERNALLY SET TASK

INDEPENDENT PROJECT

GCSE Unit 2 40%

AUTOMATICITY

MOCK EXAM

SUPPORTED PERSONALISED PROJECT

MOCK EXAM

SUPPORTED

PERSONALISED

PROJECT

Year 9 – Foundation year to enrich artistic skills, knowledge and experiences, equipping them for the GCSE years ahead.

Year 10 – Building independence when generating ideas linked to themes. Refining skills and techniques, beginning to specialise in media and style.

Year 11 – Independent enquiry into thematic projects, implementing skill, knowledge and techniques in media learned throughout the course.

Series of short technique and media focused workshops based upon the Formal Elements.

TONE

CREATIVE THINKING

RECORDING OBSERVATIONS

PRACTICAL SKILLS

CREATIVE SKILLS AND TECHNIQUES

RECORDING PHOTOGRAPHICALLY

EXPERIMENTING & DEVELOPING

PERSONAL RESPONSE

READING

RECORDING PHOTOGRAPHICALLY

TEXTURE

FORM

COMPOSITION

LINE

CREATE A MINI OUTCOME USING TECHNIQUES LEARNT

STRUCTURES

SUPPORTED PERSONALISED PROJECT

60%

Sustained thematic project based on MAN MADE or NATURAL STRUCTURES for students to explore styles, ideas media and techniques more independently.

Art and Design

Art and Design

CTA 1 - Observational drawing

CTA 2 - Observational drawing

CTA 1 - Observational drawing

CTA 2 - Observational drawing

VISIT TO KEW GARDENS

10 HOUR MOCK EXAM IN RESPONSE TO RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

10 HOUR EXTERNALLY SET EXAM IN RESPONSE TO RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

THINK LIKE AN ARTIST

THINK BIG PICTURE, FINE DETAIL

STEAL

QUESTION

BE CURIOUS

BE BRAVE

HAVE A POINT OF VIEW

PAUSE FOR THOUGHT

ACCEPT FAILURE