Year 7
Topic
FOCUS
Assessed
Looking at
artists
skills
Summer 2
4 weeks
Half-Term
Holiday
Summer 1
7 weeks
Easter Holiday
Spring 2
5 weeks
Half-Term
Holiday
Spring 1
6 weeks
Christmas
Holiday
Autumn 2
7 weeks
Half-Term
Holiday
Autumn 1
7 weeks
Art KS3 curriculum map 2015/2016
Learning to learn
Extending learning to learn
Viewpoints and objects
Viewpoints and objects
Viewpoints and objects
Viewpoints and objects
Drawing from observation
Painting an introduction to colour
Exploring paint and painting
techniques
Looking at Cubism
Multiple viewpoints
Pop art
Extending viewpoints Collage and
or 3D
The Everyday object
Mixed media
The everyday object extended
symbolism of self through objects
Developing ideas into collage and
or mixed media adopting the
colour palette of the cubist artists
synthetic cubism
Developing ideas into 3d pop art
Exploration of everyday objects
Drawings and mono prints
Patterns
symbolism
Exploration of everyday objects
Drawings and mono prints
Patterns
symbolism
Base line test at start
Work produced matched against John roan art
levels
A range of traditional and contemporary still
life artists and art movements will be explored.
Work produced matched against
John roan art levels
Developing drawings from different
viewpoints
Analytical cubism
Use of force lines
Pop art styles. Hard edged outlines, flat
colour.
Work produced matched against John roan
art levels
Work produced matched against
John roan art levels
Work produced matched against John
roan art levels
Work produced matched against
John roan art levels
A range of traditional and
contemporary still life artists and
art movements will be explored.
Traditional and contemporary cubism
Traditional and contemporary pop art
Juan Gris
Patrick Caulfield
Matisse
Aboriginal pattern and symbolism
Jim Dine
Cross hatching, stippling, blind and contour
drawing, continuous line, gesture drawing,
tonal
Sgraffitio, impasto, blending,
pointillism, hard edged
Developing ideas using 2d materials and
processes. Combining and developing
knowledge and understanding of formal
elements of drawing
Final outcomes to be produced
influenced by the work and ideas
of other artists. To develop
critical and analytical skills.
Printed and or 3d outcomes to be
produced supported by observational
drawing and contextual research and
analysis.
Pop art
Nancy Standlee
Tjalf Sparnaay
Michael Craig Martin
Final outcomes to be produced
influenced by the work and ideas
of other artists. To develop
critical and analytical skills.
To develop first hand observation skills.
Introduce and develop knowledge and
understanding of the formal elements.
Develop control and use of drawing processes
and tools
Summer 2
Half-Term
Holiday
Summer 1
7 weeks
Easter Holiday
Spring 2
5 weeks
Half-Term
Holiday
Spring 1
6 weeks
Christmas
Holiday
Autumn 2
7 weeks
Half-Term
Holiday
Autumn 1
7 weeks
Summer Holiday:
Structure and form
Natural and manmade
Structure and form
Structure and form
Pattern
Structure and form
Pattern and symbolism
Structure and form
Human form
sculpture
Observational drawings of manmade
and natural forms
Collagraph prints
Mixed media and collage
Repeat patterns
Mixed media
Mono prints
Drawings of feet, eyes, ears,
mouths, self portrait
Transforming the human
form into 3D
Jim Dine
Georgia O’Keeffe
Andy Goldsworthy
Paul Nash
Louise Bourgeois
Anya Gallicio
Ernst Haechel
Extending drawing techniques and
styles
A range of traditional and
contemporary printmakers
will be explored
Aboriginal Art
Islamic Art
Gustav Klimt
Kehinde Wiley
Alex Katz
Julian Opie
Roy Lichtenstein
Naum Gabo
Anthony Gormley
Tribal masks
assemblage
Understanding and
developing colla graph
prints from recycled
materials
Symmetry
Looking at cultural identity
through pattern
Proportion
Foreshortening
Extending painting skills
Cutting, shaping, moulding,
assemblage skills through
3D processes
Year 8
Topic
Looking at
artists
Skills
Topic
Transformation, metamorphosis
and change
Transformation,
metamorphosis and change
Transformation, metamorphosis
and change
Transformation,
metamorphosis and
change
Summer 2
4 weeks
Half-Term
Holiday
Summer 1
7 weeks
Easter Holiday
Spring 2
5 weeks
Half-Term
Holiday
Spring 1
6 weeks
Christmas
Holiday
Autumn 2
7 weeks
Half-Term
Holiday
Autumn 1
7 weeks
Art KS4 curriculum map 2015/2016
Transformation,
metamorphosis and
change
Year 9 and year 10 only
Yr9 and
Yr10
FOCUS
Year 11
Assessed
Transformation of scale.
Developing direct
observational drawing using
variety of drawing styles,
materials and processes
Transformation of the
human form
KS4
Looking at
artists
Symbolism,
animals in art,
pattern, Roa,
Graham
Sutherland, Gaudi
Year 11
Human form,
portraits,
sculpture
Direct observational drawing
Developing 2D observational skills
Summer Holiday:
Change and transformation of our
identity through the use of pattern and
symbolism
Collage and print
metamorphosis
Metamorphosis
Painting and drawing
3d sculpture of portrait and or
human form
Printmaking students will be expected to
develop ideas from independent starting
points.
Externally set assignment
Art exam 10 hrs
Completion of coursework (may
half term)
Students will be expected to
select their own artists to support
the development of their own
ideas. They will need to analyse
images found and make
connections with their own work.
Freud, Da Vinci, Gormley Hockney
Identity through pattern
Change of identity
symbolism
Surrealism, Bosch,
Charlotte Caron,
Gustav Klimt
A variety of contemporary and
traditional artist will be explored
in the development of ideas.
Artists will be identified on
externally set assignment
Refinement of chosen processes
and materials to produce final
piece in 2D. Contextual research
Direct observational drawing and
contextual research. Developing ideas to
be developed into collage and
printmaking
Printed or mixed media image to be
produced. Direct observational drawing
and contextual research. Developing
ideas to be developed into collage and
printmaking
EDEXCEL GCSE assessment criteria
Year 9 and year 10
skills
Transformation of scale
Production of final piece
Direct observational drawing
Developing ideas in 2D and 3D
3d outcome to be developed
And personal outcome produced.
Contextual research
Research into printmaking
Production of final pieces
Mixed media or printed outcome
Art exam :- final piece
All prep work to be completed
before exam date. 20 hrs prep
time
Painting and drawing
A surrealist composition.
Human form, portraits,
sculpture