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Art

Art at Framingham Earl aims to nurture the creativity and confidence of our young people and to equip them with the artistic skills and understanding necessary for all students to find pride and enjoyment in their work.

All students study Art in Years 7, 8 and 9. At the end of Year 9 students have the option to continue to study an Arts subject, with the option of taking either Fine Art GCSE or Art Textiles GCSE.

Through Years 7, 8 and 9 students engage in nine art projects, acquiring increasingly sophisticated skill sets in the disciplines of painting, textiles, and ceramics as they progress. All projects take a key artist or art movement as its starting point, making broader cultural and historical links relevant to the artist or art movement being studied. Each project ends with a final piece, which will make use of the key techniques and ideas that have been learnt throughout the project.

All projects are assessed holistically – this means that each assessment will be based on a student’s sketchbook, homework and final piece as a complete body of work.

The skills, behaviours and patterns of working learnt in Key Stage 3 are the qualities that will enable all our young people to be excited, inquisitive and confident artists. These qualities set them up seamlessly for further study of the subject at GCSE or A level.


Art

Key Stage 3

Year 7

Term

Content

Assessment

Autumn Term

Formal Elements – Mark Making and Texture

Project and final piece in response to the ideas of tone and texture explored in the work of artists such as Aaron Siskind and Margaret Mellis.

 

Spring Term

Formal Elements – Line, Shape, Colour and Pattern

Project and final piece in response to the ideas of line, shape, colour and pattern explored in the work of artists such as Sonia Delaunay, Henri Matisse, Bridget Riley and Josef Albers.

Summer Term

Formal Elements – Scale, Space and Form

Project and final piece in response to the ideas of scale, space and form explored in the work of artists such as Antony Gormley, Barbara Hepworth, Ettore Sottsass, Phyllida Barlow and Yayoi Kusama

 

Year 8

Term

Content

Assessment

Autumn Term

Pop Art

Project and final piece in response to the ideas of popular culture explored in the work of artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist and Dorothy Grebenak.

Spring Term

Cubism

Project and final piece in response to the ideas of Cubism and multiple viewpoint explored in the work of artists such as Ken Eastman, Pablo Picasso, Maria Blanchard and Juan Gris

Summer Term

Post-Impressionism

Project and final piece in response to the ideas of post impressionism and expressionism explored in the landscape work of artists such as David Hockney and Vincent van Gogh

 

 Year 9

Term

Content

Assessment

Autumn Term

Vessels

Project and final piece in response to the concept of vessels explored in the work of artists such as Magdalene Odundo, Hans Coper, Martin Smith, Ken Eastman, Giorgio Morandi and Rachel Whiteread.

Spring Term

Identity

Project and final piece in response to the ideas of portraiture and identity explored in the work of artists such as Victoria Vilasana, Andy Warhol, Janice Guy and Wolfgang Tillmans

Summer Term

Words and Action

Project and final pieces in response to the idea of art as a vehicle for change explored in the work of artists such as Corita Kent and Bob & Roberta Smith

 

Key Stage 4 ART

Year 10

Term

Content

Assessment

Autumn Term

Project 1: Surfaces

Project 2: Form

Working at grade based on assessment of project so far.

Spring Term

Surfaces

Form

Assessment of finished project and final piece.

Summer Term

Coursework Project 2

Choosing a theme and Responding to artists

Working at grade based on assessment of project so far.

 

Year 11

Term

Content

Assessment

Autumn Term

Coursework Project 2

Refining Ideas and Final Piece

Assessment of finished project and final piece.

Spring Term

ESA Project

Choosing a theme, Developing Ideas and Responding to Artists

Working at grade based on assessment of project so far.

Summer Term

ESA Project

Refining Ideas and Final Piece

Assessment of finished project and final piece.

 

Key Stage 4 ART TEXTILES

Year 10

Term

Content

Assessment

Autumn Term

Project 1: Surfaces

Project 2: Structures

Working at grade based on assessment of project so far.

Spring Term

Surfaces / Structures Refining Ideas and Final Piece

Assessment of finished project and final piece.

Summer Term

Coursework Project 2: Natural Forms

Working at grade based on assessment of project so far.

 

Year 11

Term

Content

Assessment

Autumn Term

Coursework Project 2: Natural Forms

Assessment of finished project and final piece.

Spring Term

ESA Project

Choosing a theme and Responding to Artists

Working at grade based on assessment of project so far.

Summer Term

2022 – ESA Project

Refining Ideas and Final Piece

Assessment of finished project and final piece.

 

 

 

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