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Mr N Broughton

 

Subject Leader

Mrs E Fraser

Teacher

 E.Fraser@beverleygrammar.co.uk

 

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
Landscape                             

Core: 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

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.