Key Stage 3 Art and Design

Year 7‍ ‍

Autumn:

Ways of Drawing

Introductory workshops in drawing and mark making in different media 

Exploring the formal elements

Pattern and Culture

Patterns and designing sculpture

Papier mâché sculpture outcome

Spring:

Pattern and Culture completed Papier mâché sculpture outcome

Summer:

Colour and Mood

Architecture, colour theory, abstraction

Mixed media, drawing and watercolours

Painting outcome

Year 8

Autumn:

Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt, coil pots, clay, sculpture

Coil pot outcome

Spring:

Printmaking

Responding to the urban environment

Printmaking techniques: mono printing, and relief printing

Two colour relief print outcome

Summer:

Perspective

Exploring the theme of perspective broadly and developing drawing skills further

Drawings in sketchbook outcomes

Year 9‍ ‍

Autumn:

Portrait and Pattern

Portraiture

Drawing from a grid

A3 portrait drawing outcome 

Spring:

Language and Art 

Exploring the connection between text in art and graphic design through experimental typography.

Develop personal ideas on how to use text to create art and graphics.

A3 poster outcome

Summer:

Independent project

Working from a chosen starting point and producing a body of work in response to this theme

Outcomes in and out of the sketchbook