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ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY

Aims

Art has an important role in the education of all students, providing a uniquely visual means of expressing

human ideas, values, awareness and responses. Art opens up areas of study and research, which promote

resourcefulness, originality and creativeness of thought, whilst allowing consciousness to be probed in a way

not available to other subjects. The sense of vision is all-important in how we comprehend and form our own

world. The understanding and use of visually communicated information, gathered from a wide range of

sources, has become a basic skill. The skill in this perception needs to be developed in order to enhance

aesthetic and critical awareness to open the mind to infinite possibilities and alternatives that the mind is able

to devise or imagine.

The Art Department aims to:

● Provide opportunity for students to have access to a wide range of processes, methods and techniques

to become familiar with applying the visual and tactile elements to their work, and to consider a range

of stimulating topics

● Provide opportunity for students to develop their skills of observation through first hand acquaintance

with objects and artefacts’ from the natural and made world

● Promote investigation and experimentation of ideas and materials

● Provide opportunities to express ideas and explore emotions

● Provide opportunities to see how art, craft and design has made significant contributions to the world

in which we live

● Develop students’ aesthetic sensibilities and enable them to make informed judgments about art

● Create opportunities to express considered opinions about their own work and the work of others,

both in written and aural terms

● Promote the creative work of students throughout the school and wider community

● Develop students’ capacity for imaginative and original thought

● Enable students to develop an understanding of the language of art through the systematic

introduction of the visual elements.

Enrichment and Enhancement

The Art Department readily embraces opportunities to extend learning beyond the classroom.

Extra sessions are well established at KS4 in order to support students in the development of their

coursework portfolios.

At KS3, an art homework lunchtime club ensures students’ experiences are explored through individual

participation.

Curriculum

Key Stage 3

Year 7

Autumn: Introduction Task/Formal Elements/ Still Life.

● Outcome: Drawing/Painting

● Elements: Colour/Shape/Line/Tone/Form/Pattern/Texture

● Artists: Morandi/Juan Gris

● Assessment Task: Bottle

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Spring: Self Portrait

● Outcome: Drawing/Painting/Print

● Elements: Colour/Line/Shape/Tone/Proportion

● Artists: Matisse/Guillermo Marti Ceballos/Macke/Kirchner

● Assessment Task: Portrait

Summer: Fish

● Outcome: Clay fish design spoon rest/ Mixed media Composition

● Elements: Pattern/Texture/Shape/Colour/Form/Depth

● Artists: Jason Scarpace/Juliana Depledge

● Assessment Task: Fish design/Depth composition

Year 8

Autumn: Insects.

● Outcome: Drawing/Painting/Clay dish

● Elements: Colour/Shape/Line/Tone/Form/Pattern/Texture/Symmetry

● Artists: Christopher Marley/Rosalind Monks

● Assessment Task: Artist study page presentation/Evaluation skills

Spring: Sweet

● Outcome: Onomatopoeia sculptural word/Print

● Elements: Pattern/Sculpture/Shape/Colour/Line/Typography

● Artists: Wayne Thiebaud/Robert Indiana/Roy Lichtenstein

● Assessment Task: Observational painting/Sculptural word

Summer: Art Chronology.

● Outcome: Response to a period in Art History

● Elements: Tone/Shape/Line/Form/ Colour/Pattern/Texture (as applicable)

● Artists: As applicable to the Genre of the Art period

● Assessment Task: Research/Presentation

Year 9

Autumn: Natural Form

● Outcome: Observational Drawing/ Clay candle holder

● Elements: Colour/Shape/Line/Tone/Form/Pattern/Texture/Symmetry

● Artists: Peter Randall-Page

● Assessment Task: Artist study page presentation/Clay design/Evaluation skills

Spring: Skull

● Outcome: Wire skull

● Elements: Pattern/Sculpture/Shape/Colour/Observational Drawing

● Artists: Georgia O’Keeffe/Day of the Dead Cultural Event

● Assessment Task: Observational study/Wire outcome

Summer: Hand

● Outcome: Surreal Hand

● Elements: Tonal/Shape/Line/Form/Imagination/Experience

● Artists: Escher/Salvador Dali/

● Assessment Task: Observational drawing/Surreal Hand Composition

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Key Stage 4 - ART

Year 10/11

Term 1-2 - Basic Skills

Looking at the key skills needed to progress with their Coursework Portfolio.

Focusing upon the formal elements within Art; colour, line, form, tone, texture, shape and pattern.

Enhancing direct observational skills and technical processes.

Terms 3-6 (year 10) + Terms 1-2 (Year 11) - Coursework Portfolio

Theme

Natural/Unnatural

● -Nature/Cityscape/Portraiture/Still Life

Artists

Portraiture/Light –

● Rembrandt/Georges De La Tour

Nature

● Peter Randall-Page/Anna Gillespie/Antony Gormley

Still Life ● Georgia O’Keeffe/ Philippe de Champaigne/Pieter Claesz

Cityscape

● Georgia O’Keeffe/Charles Scheeler

The Year 11 mock exam will be dedicated to the completion of the Coursework Portfolio Final Outcome.

Term 3/4/5 (Year 11) – Examination Board Set task project preparation

Key Stage 4 - PHOTOGRAPHY

Year 10/11

Term 1-2 - Basic Skills

Looking at the key skills needed to progress with their Personal Portfolio.

Focusing upon the formal elements within Photography; colour, line, space, light, tone, texture, shape and key

technical terms; aperture, shutter speed, ISO, white balance.

Terms 3-6 (year 10) + Terms 1-2 (Year 11) - Personal Portfolio

Theme

Natural/Unnatural

● Light/Nature/Humour/Portraiture

Artists Light

● Michael Bosanko/Mike Mandel

Nature

● Guy Richardson/Charlie Waite

Humour

● Slinkachu/Andrew Whyte

Portraiture

● Richard Avedon/Bill King

The Year 11 mock exam will be dedicated to the completion of the Coursework Portfolio Final Outcome.

Term 3-5 (Year 11) – Examination Board Set task project preparation

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Assessment -

Key Stage 3

Students are assessed through a variety of creative and practical activities, assessing the knowledge,

understanding and recording skills needed to engage in creative processes, techniques and evaluation

responses. The student is assessed within the four assessment objectives; Generating ideas, Making,

Evaluating and Knowledge.

Key Stage 4

OCR Art and Design/ Fine Art

● Unit 1 (60%) Students are required to produce a Coursework Portfolio Illustrating their skills and

knowledge within a theme, set by the Examination Centre. The student is assessed within the four

assessment objectives; Develop, Explore/Refine,Record and Present. ● Unit 2 (40%) Students are required to produce a response to a personally chosen theme from the list

of set tasks by the Examination Board OCR. The student is assessed within the four assessment

objectives; Develop, Explore/Refine,Record and Present.

EDEXCEL Photography

● Unit 1 (60%) Students are required to produce a Coursework Portfolio Illustrating their skills and

knowledge within a theme, set by the Examination Centre. The student is assessed within the four

assessment objectives; Develop, Explore/Refine,Record and Present.

● Unit 2 (40%) Students are required to produce a response to a personally chosen theme from the list

of set tasks by the Examination Board OCR. The student is assessed within the four assessment

objectives; Develop, Explore/Refine,Record and Present.