Year 7 First Term – Self Image
In this unit, pupils explore their personal identity as a starting point. They create images that reflect their ideas of themselves, working from observation, memory and imagination. They develop skills using traditional materials. They learn about the ideas, methods and approaches used by other artists who have made images of themselves and/or portrayed others.
Year 7 Second Term – What’s in a building?
In this unit, pupils explore their ideas and feelings about buildings and their experiences of walking through spaces. They record interesting features, such as doorways, arches, windows, porches and courtyards. They look at the work of architects, designers and sculptors.
Year 7 Third term – Recreating landscapes
In this unit, pupils explore landscape as the starting point for two and three dimensional work. They collect visual and other information by visiting a landscape and by studying the methods, approaches and intentions of artists and craftspeople that use the environment as inspiration. They manipulate the visual and tactile qualities of materials to convey mood and feeling about a landscape.
Year 8 First term – Objects and Viewpoints
In this unit, pupils explore familiar objects from different viewpoints as the starting point for their work. They develop their ideas by selecting and abstracting qualities of objects to use as the basis for a painting. They learn about the ideas and approaches of the cubists and their influences and make connections with other artists who worked from still life.
Year 8 Second term – Animating Art
In this unit, pupils explore the use of the moving image to communicate ideas about particular genres or styles of art. They analyse paintings, films, cartoons, illustrations, digital images, photographs and images from contemporary visual culture. They learn how to represent ideas and values using the moving image. They make connections between abstract expressionism, expressionism and pop art of the 1960´s and contemporary moving images.
Year 8 Third term – Shared View
In this unit, pupils explore examples of work from different times and cultures where ideas, beliefs and values are shared and communicated through art, craft and design.
Year 9 First term – Life events
In this unit, pupils explore ideas and feelings about an event in their own life as the starting point for image making. They analyse paintings, prints, photographs and digital images, including examples of photojournalism, to learn how visual qualities can be manipulated to evoke strong reactions and to represent ideas, beliefs and values. They make connections between eighteenth and nineteenth century paintings and contemporary visual culture.
Year 9 Second term – Change your style
In this unit, pupils explore contemporary design and the ways in which artists take ideas from the work of others and synthesise these into new creative forms. They develop their own ideas and design. Thery investigate the influence of art from different cultures and traditions on fashion and design.
Year 9 Third term – personal places, public spaces
In this unit, pupils explore examples of public art in their local area. They research the different ways in which ideas, beliefs and values are represented and shared in their local area and in different times and cultures, including contemporary modern practice.
Cubist still life – an easy exercise to link them to IGCSE
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