Art and Design

In Year 7, pupils will explore the foundations of art and design, developing skills and techniques through a variety of contextual sources. They will also begin to develop their subject-specific vocabulary in order to evaluate and generate their own ideas towards creative outcomes.

Pupils will be given the opportunity to respond to the culture and tradition of the wider world as well as their own local heritage.

• Art Box

• African Art

• In the Jungle

• Roll a Picasso

• Outside

Within Year 8, pupils continue to develop and expand their knowledge of the creative process, using appropriate language whilst learning new skills, techniques and processes.

Through a range of mixed media, pupils will produce creative work, exploring their ideas and recording their experiences to generate individual outcomes.

• Fruit and Veg

• Under the Microscope

• Fabric Creatures

• Food

Year 9 develop their skills with new processes and techniques and consolidate familiar skills through practise. By investigating artists, they learn to contextualise responses, developing critical understanding and visual language.

• Observational drawing

• Natural forms

Year 10 are encouraged to become confident in taking risks and learn from experience when exploring and experimenting with ideas, processes, media, materials and techniques. They develop and refine personal outcomes with increasing independence.

• Towns and cities

• Personal project

Year 11 will be actively engaged in the process of recording, developing ideas from sources which they are inspired by. They will work within the framework of the GCSE assessment objectives to produce personal and meaningful outcomes.

Extended project from choice of starting points, usually from the previous year’s Externally Set Assignment.

Externally Set Assignment, from January until Easter.

https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/art-and-design/gcse/art-and-design-8201-8206/subject-content/fine-art