Key Stage 3
Curriculum Overview
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GCSE skills:
- Develop ideas in response to a researched artist’s work
- Evaluate their own work and identify areas they need to improve on
- Experiment with a range of materials and use them skilfully
- Gather their own source materials and take ownership of their project work
- Select and record relevant observations
By the end of year 9, students should be able to:
- Have gained sufficient drawing and painting skills to enter KS4
- Apply problem solving skills
- Research and respond to artist work with confidence
- Experience a wider range of materials
- Continue to develop conceptual personal responses
By the end of year 8, students should be able to:
- Apply a range of basic artistic skills and build upon these
- Use some problem solving skills by means of 3D work
- Apply increasing freedom of choice for artists to study
- Select appropriate materials for their requirements
- Use personal creativity as a means of self-expression
By the end of year 7, students should be able to:
- Explore the formal elements of art- line, tone, colour, shape, form, texture
- Understand the key elements of a formal introduction to artist work
- Follow clear guidelines to write a research page
- Create a presentation
- Build a solid foundation of art skills to develop further
- Understand an introduction to using materials