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The priority in Art, for Year 7 students is to get them over the fear of thinking they cannot do something, to stimulate their creative thought processes and improve their fine motor skills, while introducing them to a range of media and artistic inspirational starting points. The aim is to question and challenge their observational skills and encourage resilience and independence through the creative processes.
Throughout the year they will build a structured body of work that explores drawing, printmaking, painting and sculpture.
We hope to further develop and encourage their interest by showcasing the opportunities and value in everything we do, stirring an interest in career opportunities while giving students skills to aid their emotional and mental wellbeing.
The Art department has carefully structured a spiral curriculum, each year students will revisit materials studied before but develop new ways of working with them. In Year 8 students will once again explore drawing, printmaking, painting and sculpture but the methods and processes taught will be more challenging and offer students more freedom.
The schemes of work also aim to encourage cross curricular links with English, History and Technology, to name a few. It is important that students understand a subject does not stand alone and can be used to strengthen and compliment other areas of learning.
The focus of Year 9 is to consolidate all that has been learnt previously, revisit skills and media but again raising the challenge bar and introducing more complex methods of working; culminating in a self-driven unit of work from a GCSE style brief.
Students will be introduced to technical drawing and photography alongside media that lends itself to more expressive disciplines again developing a better understanding of how creativity can be useful in our wider society.
Ultimately, in the final year of KS3, at best, we aim to encourage and prepare students for further study in the Visual Arts, at worst have given students an understanding of art and design concepts, an appreciation for wider cultural outlets and the arts and aiding their ability to think creatively.