The Curriculum
Structure
All year groups will have 3 projects per year. In each year, pupils will experience a drawing and painting project, a printing project and a 3D project. Each year will cover a different method of these processes. Every year should experience a cultural project and key art movements.
Written feedback must be given at least once per half term. This will include marking homework projects and end of project assessments with final pieces. Verbal feedback should be ongoing and must be recorded with pupils having time in lessons to respond to it. Due to Covid Regulations work will be uploaded and marked through Teams until further notice.
Creativity
Pupils must be allowed to express and explore ideas. There must be room for Creative thinking, problem solving and expression. Pupils must be set challenging and engaging Art tasks that encourage ‘thinking outside of the box’ and further research and reading surrounding the theme.
Opportunities
Throughout Key Stage 3, pupils must have the opportunity to have a range of experiences with a variety of media, different artists and cultures. Across the key stage, there should be opportunities for group work, as well as developing skills in drawing, designing, clay work, paper construction, painting, photography, and printing. Cross-curricular links should also be considered with pupils developing their literacy, numeracy, ICT, and PSHE.
Concepts
Projects will focus on key concepts, such as composition, portraiture, observational drawing, colour theory, pattern, form and cultural understanding. Although later projects should touch upon previous concepts to build on them, similar projects covering the same concepts must be avoided, unless directly replacing them. All projects should relate to an artist or culture. Where possible, there should be more than one artist introduced in order to make comparisons between them. Pupils need exposure to both modern and traditional artists and need to be aware of the context of the art movement to have an understanding of how it developed and what styles preceded it.
Skills
Skills needed for GCSE and A Level need to be honed from Year 7. Each project must address the GCSE Assessment criteria of Researching & Developing (AO1), Experimenting with Media (AO2), Recording ideas and observations (AO3), Presenting a final piece with artist influences (AO4). Annotations throughout students’ sketchbooks are necessary to respond to AO3 and develop literacy skills. These are the skills that students are to be assessed against.
Year 7 will start with learning THE FORMAL ELEMENTS, such as being able to show tone, creating different marks, using equipment correctly, and producing a colour wheel. Subsequent projects will enable pupils to put these skills into action to produce more unique final outcomes. By introducing a wide variety of materials early in their art education, pupils will be able to make more independent decisions about their choice of materials later on in the key stage, which will enable them to achieve higher grades.
Choices should be built into every project to differentiate tasks. As pupils progress through the year groups, they will have opportunities to revisit some of the same skills to develop them further, as well as learn new skills. By Year 9, there will be a greater level of independence needed from students to create their own designs, which should become increasingly more sophisticated.
Homework
KS3 Homework will be set as 5-6 week projects, which will directly relate to their classwork and result in an independent final outcome. This will predominantly cover AO4 and involve students creating final outcomes. Each homework will consist of a compulsory element and optional elements, split into an intermediate and challenge section. All aspects of the compulsory tasks must be achieved in order to be awarded a grade.
Additional smaller homeworks may be set on some occasions to contribute to classroom learning, such as collection of images or finishing incomplete work at the end of a project.
Success Criteria
Topic specific success criteria must be shared with pupils at the start of each project. Pupils will be able to use this for peer and self-assessment in order to drive their marks up. Assessment criteria for AO4 will also be featured on all homework sheets. Teachers will be able to use the success criteria for standardisation of marking.
Assessment
Tasks will be marked using cover sheets in each pupils sketchbook. Each task will be marked using at the schools marking policy.
At the end of summer term students should aim for:
Year 7=5b Year 8=6b, Year 9=7b, some pupils will be above or below.
Task Sheets
All projects will be accompanied by task sheets, which must include:
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Keywords
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Project Objectives
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List of formal elements and key concepts
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List of artists
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Images for inspiration
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List of tasks
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Success Criteria
Extra Curricular
Pupils will be offered opportunities to extend their Art experience through a range of extra curricular opportunities such as Trips, Art Club and Homework booklets.
A History of Art Club will be delivered weekly, led by the Art sixth form prefects, this will endeavour to educate pupils of the origins of Art and the progression over time.
https://www.impressions-gallery.com/event/exhibition-on-tour-our-plastic-ocean/
http://www.henry-moore.org/whats-on/2020/06/10/wild-bunch-printed-collage-workshop
https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/art-exhibitions0
https://shipleyartgallery.org.uk/whats-on/shipley-art-challenge
https://www.houseofillustration.org.uk/get_involved/the-book-illustration-competition-92
https://www.moma.co.uk/uk-art-competitions/
https://www.creativefuture.org.uk/resource/art-competition/
https://www.royaldrawingschool.org/lectures-events/summer-school-2020/
https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/summer-exhibition-2020