Welcome to the Art Department

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

Thomas Merton

Our curriculum is designed to encourage learners to develop knowledge and understanding, creativity, the practice of investigation and, making, based on personal experiences, taught skills and critical understanding. This is regardless of their experiences or skills set as they embark on their journey in art from Year 7.

Sequential Knowledge - Cultural Capital - Creative Choices - Spirit

My art helps me for the future when:

Creativity: I can solve problems in an imaginative way at home or work.
Visualise: I see the bigger picture of a task, I am industrious and see a job through to the end.
Precision: Skills I use enable accurate and controlled work, whether I become a mechanic, surgeon, beautician or architect.
Focus: I make good progress in the workplace as I can self-regulate and concentrate for long periods of time.
Dexterity: I can use fine motor skills when tricky, small tasks need completing.
Articulate: I can talk in groups or with individuals confidently – teamwork and a presentation at work, or talk to my boss.
Analyse: I can evaluate the strengths of a job or areas that need improving and act.
Vocabulary: I know an array of words and understand their meaning across a number of subjects, jobs or roles.
Resilience: I see a job through to its completion and if I make a mistake I can adjust accordingly – perseverance, and ‘Thinking on my feet’.
Culture: My character education in art allows a mature and content outlook on different cultures and people in our workplace, community and school.
Judgements: I have integrity, and opinions which I can share, but understand I will meet different personalities, yet respect their opinions. Pupils will engage with the creative process, allowing learners to develop, explore, record and realise their intentions in a vast array of materials and experiences.

Week 1-3: Drawing and colouring skills	Week 4-6: Painting and key artists	Week 7-9: Printmaking and sculpture
Key knowledge: To know key skills and knowledge need to develop in art To understand how to sketch a bubble writing, colour in flat, gradient and analogous To be able to produce a mood board that reflects on identity and complete that in flat, gradient and analogous colour.	Key knowledge: To know how to use the grid method To understand how to apply realistic tonal shading To be able to complete a realistic self-portrait drawing and also transform one into the style of the key artists	Key Knowledge: To know how to paint and create a clay sculpture To understand how to mix colours To be able to paint a clay relief sculpture as a final outcome inspired by identity and key artists
Pupils will be able to: Produce a moodboard that reflects on their identity, heritage and community. Students are expected to draw a range of illustrations about their identity, culture and community. Then colour the work in with flat, gradient and analogous colours.	Pupils will be able to: Produce a realistic self-portrait drawing and another one that is transformed into the style of either Van Gogh or Opie	Pupils will be able to: Produce a clay relief sculpture inspired by identity and painted in the style of the artists.
Key Vocabulary: identity, culture, community, sketch, tone, graduation of tone, blending, flat/block colouring, gradient, monochromatic, analogous, hot and cool colours, texture, mark-making, outline and Pop Art	Key Vocabulary: grid method, tonal shading, proportion, details, texture, realism, resilience, Post-Impressionism and Pop Art	Key Vocabulary: identity, relief, texture, blending, flat/block colouring, gradient, monochromatic, analogous, hot and cool colours, outline and Pop Art
Assessment: Base line assessment	Assessment: Self-Portrait drawing	Assessment: Colour theory: mixing and painting and color wheel
Enrichment Opportunities: Art Club	Enrichment Opportunities: Art Club	Enrichment Opportunities: Art Club

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Welcome to the Art Department

Sequential Knowledge - Cultural Capital - Creative Choices - Spirit

My art helps me for the future when:

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