Art

Welcome to the Kingsmead School Art Department.

The art curriculum is designed to offer continuity and progression through KS3 to KS4.

The curriculum at KS3 is built around the need to build confidence with a range of key skills whilst developing a basic visual language.

The curriculum at KS4 builds on the skills developed and provides the opportunity for students to explore their world and relationship to it in a personal way. The course develops the student’s ability to work independently developing themes such as ‘Self-Portrait’.

Sequence of Learning in Art

This is a summary of the topics studied in Key Stage 3 (Years 7 &8) Art at Kingsmead School:

Key Stage 3 Sequence of Learning

Year 7

Year 8

Term 1 (Sept-Oct)

Colour Basics

  • Colour Wheel
  • Paint control & consistency
  • Monet Landscape
  • Turner Constable

 

1 Shells

  • Watercolour techniques
  • Shell drawings Line & Tone
  • Ruth Piper doodle drawings and paintings

 

Term 2 (Nov-Dec)

1 Colour Basics

  • Colour Wheel
  • Paint control & consistency
  • Monet Landscape
  • Turner Constable

 

1 Shells

  • Watercolour techniques
  • Shell drawings Line & Tone
  • Ruth Piper doodle drawings and paintings

 

Term 3 (Jan-Feb)

2 Bird Collage

  • Drawing grids
  • Collage Birds
  • Colour Wheel pencil crayon red,blue,yellow
  • Bird drawing pencil crayon
  • Mixed media artists
  • Collage Artist

 

2 Gargoyles

  • Expressions
  • Line and tonal drawings
  • Gargoyle Studies
  • Clay gargoyles

 

Term 4 (Feb-Mar)

2 Bird Collage

  • Drawing grids
  • Collage Birds
  • Colour Wheel pencil crayon red,blue,yellow
  • Bird drawing pencil crayon
  • Mixed media artists
  • Collage Artist

 

2Gargoyles

  • Expressions
  • Line and tonal drawings
  • Gargoyle Studies
  • Clay gargoyles

 

Term 5 (Apr-May)

3 Letter Sculptures

  • Card and newspaper construction
  • Letters
  • Abstract Art

 

3 Relief Print

  • Exploring environment with rubbing
  • Rubbing drawing from owl
  • Simplified cut paper birds
  • Paper collagraph of owl printed in black on white paper

 

Term 6 (June-July)

3 Letter Sculptures

  • Card and newspaper construction
  • Letters
  • Abstract Art

 

3 Relief Print

  • Exploring environment with rubbing
  • Rubbing drawing from owl
  • Simplified cut paper birds
  • Paper collagraph of owl printed in black on white paper

This is a summary of the topics studied in Key Stage 4 (Years 9-11) Art at Kingsmead School:

Key Stage 4 Sequence of Learning

Year 9

Year 10

Year 11

Term 1 (Sept-Oct)

Self - Portrait

  • Van Gogh SP study
  • Chuck Close study
  • Sweet drawing
  • Envelop drawing
  • Barbara Krueger hand drawing
  • Student Self Portrait

 

3 Past Present Future

  • Marcel Duchamp Nude descending a staircase
  • Moving hands paint and mixed media
  • Observation drawings figure in movement, torn paper, draw in card, stencil print
  • Muybridge Photos
  • Wire figure drawings from studies
  • Student led individual activities

 

4 Project Based on previous years Exam Paper Summer 2020  

 

Term 2 (Nov-Dec)

1 Self - Portrait

  • Van Gogh SP study
  • Chuck Close study
  • Sweet drawing
  • Envelop drawing
  • Barbara Krueger hand drawing
  • Student Self Portrait

Past Present Future

  • Marcel Duchamp Nude descending a staircase
  • Moving hands paint and mixed media
  • Observation drawings figure in movement, torn paper, draw in card, stencil print
  • Muybridge Photos
  • Wire figure drawings from studies
  • Student led individual activities

 

5 Improvement of coursework projects

Term 3 (Jan-Feb)

1 Self - Portrait

  • Van Gogh SP study
  • Chuck Close study
  • Sweet drawing
  • Envelop drawing
  • Barbara Krueger hand drawing
  • Student Self Portrait

4 Project Based on previous years Exam Paper Summer 2020                                    

External Exam

Term 4 (Feb-Mar)

2 Natural Form

  • Collagraph Prints
  • Fish print paper and thin string
  • Word PRINT variety of textures
  • Bug drawings and bug Print
  • Flower/Natural form observation studies
  • Collagraph student design and print based on resources collected and knowledge of print methods

4 Project Based on previous years Exam Paper Summer 2020   

External Exam

 

Term 5 (Apr-May)

2 Natural Form

  • Collagraph Prints
  • Fish print paper and thin string
  • Word PRINT variety of textures
  • Bug drawings and bug Print
  • Flower/Natural form observation studies
  • Collagraph student design and print based on resources collected and knowledge of print methods

4 Project Based on previous years Exam Paper Summer 2020   

External Exam

 

Term 6 (June-July)

3 Past Present Future
  • Marcel Duchamp Nude descending a staircase
  • Moving hands paint and mixed media
  • Observation drawings figure in movement, torn paper, draw in card, stencil print
  • Muybridge Photos
  • Wire figure drawings from studies

Student led individual activities

4 Project Based on previous years Exam Paper Summer 2020  

 

Trips, Visits in Art

The curriculum is enriched by trips to the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery as part of our Creative Arts Visit.

Top Websites

For additional learning and revision in this subject, see these websites:

Progress Overviews 

These are designed to outline the progression of Arts based learning within each year group. They make clear the skills, understanding and knowledge within each category of our language for learning

Top 5 useful websites:

All major gallery sites including

The National Gallery www.nationalgallery.org.uk/

The Tate www.tate.org.uk/

Artchive www.artchive.com/

Student Art Guide www.studentartguide.com

BBC Bitesize www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/artanddesign