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Curriculum Intent - Art:

Art, Photography and Design Curriculum Intent Statement.

At Liskeard School and Community College we believe that knowledge in the visual arts can help us to understand and offer meaning to the time and place in which we live. We understand the essential role the skills of visual literacy have in empowering us to make, and curate new meaning, to test, and reflect upon new ways of seeing our world through curiosity and innovation. We know it can provide intelligent solutions in an increasingly complex world, through aesthetics, practical insight and problem solving. We believe the visual arts can provide a compelling foundation for fostering personal resilience, a sense of individual and collegiate achievement, enrichment, enjoyment, and a thirst for lifelong learning and cultural influence. We believe that art, photography, and design, impacts everyone’s lives, on every level, every day. Now, more than ever before, the world needs the capacity for creative thinking and visual literacy that is specific to the visual arts and design education.

Throughout our curriculum we support students to aspire to the highest standards of academic excellence within the visual arts at all Key Stages. Our teaching pedagogy promotes an open learning culture, rich in the transmission of historical and contextual knowledge and understanding; setting the context for empathy, ownership, autonomy, responsibility, personal expression, and ethically responsible design. Our visual arts curriculum is rich in skills, and prepares our students with a confidence to apply and communicate their depth of cognitive, as well as haptic thinking in a wide range of disciplines; offering opportunity for wider appreciation, creativity, personal empowerment and facilitating a genuine sense of success, value and ultimately, economic prosperity.

Through the application of visual grammar, of line, shape, tone, colour and texture, students can powerfully record, design, curate and communicate, with increasing complexity and sophistication, in a range of media and on a range of scales, resolving informed choices and working with increasing confidence and independence. Through the continuity and progression we are able to offer, students are prepared well for their next step.

Curriculum Overview Art

  Autumn Spring Summer

Year 7

 Mark-making, Mixed Media, Layering, Colour, Colour Theory, Abstraction. Still Life, Observational Drawing, Measuring, Perspective, Weight and Line, Shape and Form, Tone, Colour Mixing and Application. Low Relief / Sculpture, Narrative, Visual Analysis, Developing and Idea, Historical Context, Research and Recording, Collaborative Working.

Year 8

 Self-Image, Drawing, Measuring, Proportion, Scaling, Formal Elements, Grid and Trace, Viewpoint and Symmetry.

2D Design and Making, Synthesis of Information, Drawing, Analysis, Selection, Shape and Form, Plastic Materials (Clay), Reduction, Modelling, Joining Methods, Form and Function.

 Artifacts, Culture, Heritage, Contemporary Art and Context, Asking Questions, Narrative / Symbolism, Mixed Media, Collaborative Working.

Year 9

 Natural Forms, Inside and Out, 3D Making, Reduction, Addition, Modelling, Carving, Orthographic Projections, Space, Volume and Form, Flat Construction, Positive and Negative Space, Armature and Maquette.

Print, Signs, Symbols and Semiotics, Logos, Meaning, Mono, Relief and Reduction Printing, Collagraph, Lino, Etching, Register and Offset, Symmetry and Mirroring, Positive, Negative, Stencil, Trace and Transfer, Value and Editioning.

 Message and Viewpoints, Juxtaposition and Meaning, Clarity, Ambiguity, Suggestion, Text and Image, Mixed Media, Collage.

Year 10

Thematic / Genre approaches, building on prior knowledge, interests, and skill. 2D, 3D processes, print making, painting, mixed media, craft / design, and use of photographic image making in art.

  1. Drawing from first-hand and secondary sources.
  2. Draftmanship, geometry and perspective in drawing.
  3. Approaches to drawing to develop ideas, compositions and to communicate.
  4. Recognising, appreciating, and applying outcomes of experimental processes.
  5. Developing a personal approach to a theme through the investigating and exploration of critical / historical references.
  6. Use of written and visual mind maps.
  7. Independent artists research skills.
  8. Communicating knowledge and understanding through oracy.
  9. Making evaluations and comparison.
  10. Testing visual communication for clarity of idea and impact.
  11. Working on a variety of scales and grounds.
  12. Resolving a final image/s.

 

Component 1: Portfolio 60% of Final Grade. Self-negotiated response to thematic title. i.e. ‘Structures’.

  1. Word definitions and vocabulary.
  2. Defining the theme.
  3. Investigation / exploration of critical historical references.
  4. Mind maps and writing a statement of intent.
  5. Diagnostic understanding of the assessment criteria.
  6. Independent artists research skills.
  7. Appropriating and making informed, intelligent connections.
  8. Contextualising a personal response in social history and contemporary society.
  9. Drawing from firsthand and secondary sources.
  10. Draftmanship, geometry and perspective in drawing.
  11. Approaches to drawing to develop ideas, compositions and to communicate.
  12. Recognising, appreciating and applying outcomes of experimental processes.
  13. Independent artists research skills.
  14. Communicating knowledge and understanding through oracy.
  15. Making evaluations and comparison.
  16. Testing visual communication for clarity of idea and impact.
  17. Working on a variety of scales and grounds.
  18. Resolving a final image/s.

Year 11

Exam Preparation

  1. Preparedness.
  2. Pace and timing.
  3. Making decisions
  4. Refining work within the constraints of time.
  5. Making practical compromises.
  6. Selection and resolution of work.

Component 2: Externally Set Assignment. 40% of Final Grade. Self-negotiated response to thematic title. i.e. ‘Structures’.

  1. Word definitions and vocabulary.
  2. Defining the theme.
  3. Investigation / exploration of critical historical references.
  4. Mind maps and writing a statement of intent.
  5. Diagnostic understanding of the assessment criteria.
  6. Independent artists research skills.
  7. Appropriating and making informed, intelligent cultural connections.
  8. Contextualising a personal response in social history and contemporary society.
  9. Drawing from first hand and secondary sources.
  10. Draftmanship, geometry and perspective in drawing.
  11. Approaches to drawing to develop ideas, compositions and to communicate.
  12. Recognising, appreciating and applying outcomes of experimental processes.
  13. Independent artists research skills.
  14. Communicating knowledge and understanding through oracy.
  15. Making evaluations and comparison.
  16. Testing visual communication for clarity of idea and impact.
  17. Working on a variety of scales and grounds.
  18. Resolving a final image/s.

Year 12
  • Word definitions and vocabulary.
  • Defining the theme.
  • Investigation / exploration of critical historical references.
  • Mind maps and writing a statement of intent.
  • Diagnostic understanding of the assessment criteria.
  • Independent artists research skills.
  • Making informed, intelligent cultural connections.
  • Contextualising a personal response in social history and contemporary society.
  • Drawing from first hand and secondary sources.
  • Draftmanship, geometry and perspective in drawing.
  • Approaches to drawing to develop ideas, compositions and to communicate.
  • Recognising, appreciating and applying outcomes of experimental processes.
  • Independent artists research skills.
  • Communicating knowledge and understanding through oracy.
  • Making evaluations and comparison.
  • Testing visual communication for clarity of idea and impact.
  • Working on a variety of scales and grounds.

Component 1 60% of A2 Qualification.

Negotiated Brief to Exam Style Question.

Exploration of essay focus.

50% Practical Work
50% Written Study (1000-3000 Words)

Year 13

Component 1 60% of A2 Qualification.

Negotiated Brief to Exam Style Question.

Exploration of essay focus.

50% Practical Work
50% Written Study (1000-3000 Words)

Component 2 40% of A2 Qualification.

Responding to the Exam Questions.
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