Art education benefits both the pupil and society. It benefits the pupil as it cultivates the whole child, gradually building many varieties of literacy while developing intuition, reasoning, imagination, and dexterity into unique forms of expression and communication. We see the Arts as a journey not just a destination. This process requires not merely an active mind but also a trained one. Arts education also helps students by initiating them into a variety of ways of perceiving and thinking – a crucial component in the development of the essential skills for the 21st Century. Pupils will learn and experience from a variety of 2D and 3D materials, techniques and processes alongside studying a range of artists, designers and craftspeople.
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KS3 Art
Year 7
Term 1 - Passport Project
Formal elements, dot and line, accuracy and range of tones in shoe drawing, accuracy of painting and colour mixing.
Term 2 - Colour Wheel
Accuracy of handling a paintbrush, accuracy of colour mixing, understanding of colour theory and application of colour theory.
Term 3 - Kandinsky Project, Artist Research, Printmaking
Understanding of colour kinaesthesia, formal elements of shape and line, watercolour application and use of collagraph.
Term 4 - Observational Drawing
Understanding of observational drawing, use of line, composition, use of tone and variety of mark-making. Investigation of mark-making in ceramics.
Term 5 - Ceramic Owl Project
Use of mark-making in drawings, exploring ideas through design and drawing, use of ceramic techniques (pinch pot, ceramic addition and ceramic subtraction), accurate application of paint.
Term 6 - Hundertwasser
Understanding of Hundertwasser’s use of line and shape, accuracy of copied drawings, imaginative use of colour theory and line, accurate and meaningful use of collage.
Year 8
Term 1 - Portraits
Understanding what a portrait is, understanding and use of proportion in portraits, application of a variety of tones using pencil, application of a variety of tones using chalk and charcoal, understanding of continuous line, application of wire to make a drawing, accurate and imaginative use of photography to recreate a famous portrait painting.
Term 2 - Portraits, Cubism, Ceramics
Understanding of cubist theory, understanding and use of proportion in portraits, imaginative application of line and colour to design a ceramic relief portrait, use of ceramic techniques (slab building, ceramic addition and ceramic subtraction), accurate application of paint.
Term 3 - Day of the Dead
A project looking at the Mexican Day of the Dead festival. We design our own brightly coloured skulls, investigate animal patterns and ultimately make our very own Alebrije!
Term 4 - Observational Drawing
Understanding of Observational drawing, use of line, composition, use of tone and variety of mark-making. Use of pen drawing techniques.
Term 5 - Animal Project
Accurate and imaginative use of collage, accurate use of line, composition and tone to copy collage, understanding of monoprint theory, application of monoprint.
Term 6 - Comics
A look at cartoons, comics, characters and comic strips through the 20th Century and beyond. Common conventions are analysed along with an opportunity to use the visual language of comics to create our own inked masterpiece.
Year 9
Term 1 - Observational Drawing
Understanding of varied use of drawing techniques, use of line, composition, use of tone and variety of mark-making, use of pen drawing techniques, use of bracelet drawing, hatching, cross-hatching and stippling.
Term 2 - Paul Klee
Artist research into Klee, understanding of ‘taking a line for a walk’, accurate use of coloured pencil, imaginative use of colour for lettering, accuracy of handling a paintbrush, accuracy of watercolour mixing, understanding of colour theory and formal elements (shape, line).
Term 3 - Pop Art
Artist research into Lichtenstein, imaginative and exploratory responses to Lichtenstein’s work, understanding of Pop Art characteristics, accurate copy of complex image, understanding of linocut theory, application of linocut theory.
Term 4 - Ceramic Cakes
Understanding of different ceramic techniques to design and produce a colourful cake in ceramics.
Term 5 - Graffiti
Understanding of Graffiti theory and styles, accurate drawings of three main styles, accurate application of coloured pencil, imaginative and informed design for final outcome, accurate and attractive application of graffiti concepts in final design. Artist research into Banksy, accurate drawing and application of coloured pencil in reproductions of Banksy, imaginative design for a Banksy-style stencil, accurate stencil-cutting, successful application of stencil.
Term 6 - Great Artists
A series of short projects looking at a variety of techniques and materials through the prism of great artists including Keith Haring, Alberto Giacometti and Peter Blake.
GCSE Art
Year 10
Term 1 - Natural Forms
Drawing, watercolour, acrylic painting, collage, monoprinting and introduction to mounting techniques and coursework presentation.
Term 2 - Portraiture (Matisse)
Artist research, drawing, acrylic painting.
Terms 3 & 4 - Everyday Objects
Artist research, photography, drawing, acrylic painting.
Terms 5 & 6 - Portraiture (Pop Art)
Artist research, drawing, acrylic painting.