Art Curriculum Aims
Our art curriculum offers our pupils a diverse range of opportunities to explore their learning, express their creative flair and understand how art education shapes their character and culture as well as broadens their minds.
Art encourages self-expression and creativity and develops critical thinking. It has the potential to build our pupils’ confidence and their sense of individual identity (The Tate). https://www.place2be.org.uk/our-services/services-for-schools/the-art-room/
A high-quality art and design curriculum engages, inspires and challenges our pupils, equipping them with the knowledge and skills to:
- Experiment
- Invent
- Create
Students research art forms and artists at the start of their units. Our students develop independent research skills, analysis and evaluative skills. They use their in-depth understanding of the topic to produce work and critically assess each other’s work. Consequently, they are inspired to develop their own style.
Art lessons have several cross-curricular links; history, geography, mental health and wellbeing, literacy and mathematics, and study of different perspectives in buildings, architectures and grid methods. We expose students to artists from various ethnic backgrounds, neurodiversity and disabilities as well art forms from around the world, such as Islamic art and aboriginal art. Students explore mental health and wellbeing through study of Van Gogh and Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
GCSE ART
Pupils build on the knowledge, skills and understanding established in KS3. The course is designed to encourage students to develop skills, creativity, imagination and independence. Students will experience a wide range of approaches in the use of materials, processes and techniques, responding to guidelines and potential outcomes.
Component 1: Personal Portfolio requires pupils to produce work based on different themes (60%).
Component 2: The Externally Set Assignment is the set task from the exam board. This requires pupils to choose a starting point from a list of questions and prepare work over several weeks, resulting in a final idea which will be done within 10 hours set exam time. (40%).
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Useful links
https://www.studentartguide.com/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z6hs34j
https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/