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| Name | Role | |
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Mr N Broughton
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Subject Leader |
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Mrs E Fraser |
Teacher |
Subject Content
KS3
| Curriculum Content | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year 7 | Year 8 | Year 9 | |
| Term 1 |
Foundation
Core: Drawing Key Skills: Discussing artwork, tone, shape, dry materials. |
Portraiture
Core: Fine Art, sustained project Key Skills: Proportion, tone, developing ideas, working with artists, ambition Alberto Giacometti, Jean Michel Basquiat |
Animals in Art
Core: Art History, independence Key Skills: Expressing complex ideas and imagery, analysing images and ideas, sculpture Chauvet Caves, Chauvet Caves, Vanitas, Sally Matthews, WWF |
| Term 2 |
Beetles
Core: Experimentation- Christina Drejenstam Key Skills: risk-taking, selecting, annotating own work |
Pop-Up
Core: Illustration Key Skills: mark-making, illustrators, refining ideas. John Kenn Mortensen, Jon Klassen. |
Street Art
Core: Graphics Key Skills: employability, lettering, design devices Dain, Pop Art Movement |
Term 3 |
LandscapeCore: Painting- David Hockney, Vincent Van Gogh
Key Skills: Mark-making, layers, colour-mixing, proportion. |
Architecture
Core: Perspective Key Skills: technical drawing, experimentation. Ian Murphy |
Texture
Core: Relief Key Skills: recording, construction |
KS4
| Course Type | GCSE |
|---|---|
| Exam Board | AQA |
| Specification | 8202 |
| Examined Component | 40% |
| Coursework Component | 60% |
| Contact | N.Broughton@beverleygrammar.co.uk |
Reasons for studying this course
The Art and Design GCSE is an exciting course that supports students in developing their making skills, creativity and developing confidence in working with purpose and independence. The course prepares students to be resourceful and inventive problem solvers and to appreciate the wide range of economic and social applications that the study of Art and Design has to offer.
Course Content
- The course will provide opportunities to study skills in drawing, painting, illustration, relief work, hand printing processes and photography
- Students will be expected to produce project-based artwork that is personal and unique.
- The course will provide opportunities to explore, experiment and invent.
- Students will be taught skills in digital media
- All students will experience preparing for a final end of course exhibition
- Students will investigate the work of other artists, craftspeople and designers
- Students will produce a range of project outcomes on different scales that will demand good levels of planning.
Skills and attributes needed to be successful in this course
Students should be prepared to engage in projects that demand high levels of creativity and independence. They should have the confidence to work in a range of materials and enjoy opportunities to engage with new concepts and techniques. They should be able to manage timescales and complete work to deadlines.