Art & Design
| Miss J Taylor (Head of Department) | jtaylor@conyers.org.uk |
| Mrs R Allardice | rallardice@conyers.org.uk |
| Mrs M Blades | mblades@conyers.org.uk |
Key Stage 3 Curriculum Map
Curriculum Intent
Conyers School Art Department aims to ensure that all students: produce creative work, exploring their ideas and recording their experiences, become proficient in drawing, painting, sculpture and other art, craft and design techniques, evaluate and analyse creative works using the language of art, craft and design, know about great artists, craft makers and designers, and understand the historical and cultural development of their art forms.
Key Knowledge and Skills
Year 7
Develop ideas and intentions, first hand observation experiences, inspiration, imagination and other sources. To understand how to improve through evaluating and reflecting on work and processes.
Year 8
Recording observations through experimenting with ideas, materials, tools and techniques. demonstrating critical understanding to realise intentions. To develop a personal opinion and development of work, translating through a sketchbook.
Year 9
Proportional drawing and use of different shading techniques and analytical approaches to artists. To develop layering of materials to meet GCSE standards and quality within the work.
Sequence Discussion
Year 7
Foundation skills are key in year 7 due to lack of the arts practices. Want students to get a range of sources to make them inquisitive and to show their imagination and creative skills through workshops and presented into a sketchbook. We want the students to know how to improve and develop through practical lessons through specific learning outcomes.
Year 8
Students need to keep developing new methods and techniques looking at arts and crafts. Learning processes and how to achieve positive outcomes. To start creatively developing sketchbooks, layout and presentation and understanding the written element and the importance of evaluating and reviewing and reflecting on others and their work.
Year 9
Getting students ready for GCSE doing an identity project which creates independency and develops higher skill set, really looking into artists and the way identity can be portrayed, developing the creative mind. To learn about personalising work through the graffiti project learning more difficult techniques and working with textures and layering. Some classes have 2 lessons and other have 3 lessons a fortnight so some projects are not challenged due to time allowance.
Year 7
Half Term 1
Foundation in Art – Insects
Half Term 2
Foundation in Art – Insects
Half Term 3
Layers
Half Term 4
Layers
Half Term 5
Rex Ray Abstracts
Half Term 6
Rex Ray Abstracts
Year 8
Half Term 1
Sections – Incredible creatures
Half Term 2
Sections – Incredible creatures
Half Term 3
Layers 2D/3D
Half Term 4
Layers 2D/3D
Half Term 5
Surrealist animals – Climate change, endangered animals
Half Term 6
Surrealist animals – Climate change, endangered animals
Year 9
Half Term 1
Identity
Half Term 2
Identity
Half Term 3
Graffiti Art & Pop Art
Half Term 4
Graffiti Art & Pop Art
Half Term 5
Day of the Dead/Cultural masks
Half Term 6
Day of the Dead/Cultural masks