Art & DT

In Art we have designed a curriculum that gives students the opportunity to explore their creativity, whilst grounding their independent expressiveness with technical skills and a broad contextual understanding. 

In year 7 students develop their understanding of the formal elements, focusing on colour, line, pattern, form, shape and texture through the work of artists as varied as Van Gogh and Matisse, Scarpace and Kusama and Australian Aboriginal Art. In Year 8 they develop their research and creative exploration skills, using painting, printing and sculptural techniques to investigate work by Kahlo, Giacometti and contemporary street art. In year 9 we pull the formal and the expressive back together refining skills in painting and drawing, so that they can eventually, confidently explore a self-directed project that will result in individual, highly personalised outcomes. 
 
The skills that students develop in KS3 are the same skills they will need to demonstrate in their GCSE Art and Photography courses - contextual research, experiments with media and recording of imagery all leading to personal outcomes. As GCSE Art remains 100% coursework, students need to be able to work to these assessment objectives from the moment they start the course.