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Art

In Art and Design, pupils have opportunities to develop personal creativity and Whole Curriculum Skills and Capabilities. They explore drawing and graphic media, ceramics, three-dimensional construction and digital media.

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Art and Design activities enable pupils to:

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  • observe and interpret their visual environment;

  • visually express their ideas, thoughts, feelings and personal responses;

  • explore and develop imagination and ideas;

  • solve problems and create solutions, designs and products;

  • use art and design vocabulary to critically analyse and evaluate art and design works;

  • understand shape and space in two and three dimensions; and

  • explore and use a range of techniques and materials, developing practical skills and dexterity.

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Pupils also have opportunities to collaborate, work independently, embrace diversity and disrupt existing preconceptions and stereotypes. Teachers give pupils as much experience as possible of real-life contexts for Art and Design, for example through looking at the work of local artists and working to a brief like a designer would.

 

At Killicomaine we study the following over the three years:

Year 8

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A World of Colour & Shape

Autumn Leaves with a focus on pattern, shape and painting skills. 100% of Christmas mark.

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Ways of Looking

Mark making flower. Pupils experiment with as many different media and marks as possible creating a flower without drawing a contour just using marks.

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Sweets Still Life. 2 assessment pieces. Liquorice sweets assessment – 30% Summer of mark. Summer Still Life set up – 70% Summer of mark. Both pieces focus on observation and recording skills; drawing 3D forms, considering use of scale and proportion. Students will also develop their shading skills in colouring pencil.  

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Illustration

Pupils look at the illustration examples of artist Mark Hearld and create a bird inspired by the artist.

Year 9

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Me, People & Places

Blind contour portraits.

Pupils will create a self-portrait drawn using measurements taught in class. Painted in style of chosen artist; Frida Kahlo, Vincent Van Gogh, Francoise Nielly, Edvard Munch and Henri Matisse are options. 100% of Christmas mark.

Wire portraits in Style of Alexander Calder.

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Beyond Colour & Shape into Texture in Ceramics

Ceramic Tile inspired by chosen season. Design sheets will be 30 % Summer mark. Tile 70% of Summer mark. Pupils will also complete a financial capability clay costing task, where they will imagine they are a self-employed ceramicist. They will calculate the cost of their raw materials, price for profit and add VAT cost to their piece. 

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Animation

In groups pupils will create an animation using a paper cut out technique and iStopmotion.

Year 10

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Still Life Observation & Recording

Still Life – 30% of Transfer. Pupils will create an interesting set up of objects (perhaps based on their interests e.g. baking) and record what they see. 

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Selling things with Art

Pupils will create typography work to a design brief creating various word art lettering pieces.

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Transfer Art Exam

Transfer 70% - students create a piece based on the title they have chosen. Titles vary each year.

Painted collages. Pupils will create a painted collage piece inspired by Clover Robin, Mark Hearld, Eric Carle and Elizabeth St Hilaire Nelson.

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