Art
The Art department at Sale Grammar School strives to provide an environment within which young people can explore their creativity and learn skills that enable them to express and communicate their ideas visually. Structured units of work allow learners to build skills and confidence, enabling them to develop their work with increasing independence.
The Art Department scheme of work is devised to develop student’s knowledge and understanding of the formal elements of Art and Design and how to apply these creatively. Students explore the work of artists in order to understand how they could apply their understanding of the formal elements with intent. Curiosity of materials, media, their own and others viewpoints of the world around them is nurtured to support students to become confident learners.
The department has a commitment to cross-curricular, international and community engagement through Art.
Year 7 Core Learning Objectives in Art
Year 7 students will be taught units of work on Line, Colour, Pattern, Texture, Form, Tone.
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Investigate sources including analysis of artist reference
Refine work through experimentation of ideas and media
Record ideas, observations and insights
Complete a final outcome
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Year 8 Core Learning Objectives in Art
Year 8 students will be taught units of work on Line, Colour, Pattern, Texture, Form, Tone, learning to strengthen their understanding and skills learnt in Year 7 to a higher standard of control and creative application.
Investigate sources including analysis of artist reference
- Compare and contrast visual qualities in artists’ work
- Collect information about the background knowledge of artists’ with reference to how this has informed the artists’ work
- Explain this knowledge in their own words through initial annotation and extended writing
- Collect images to support their analysis of artists
- Write about how their research has inspired their own work
- Use primary and secondary sources to begin to develop their practical work
Refine work through experimentation of ideas and media
- Create a set of experiments with appropriate media
- Make selections for the most appropriate of experiments to inform a developed piece of work
- Demonstrate a good level of manipulation control with a variety of different tools
- Demonstrate a good level of manipulation control of the formal elements in art
- Annotate their experimentation to outline successes
- Revisit their observations in order to work towards an outcome
- Plan compositions and/or 3D designs in thumbnail drawings
Record ideas, observations and insights
- Record initial ideas
- Record through annotation demonstrating a focus for development within the project
- Record through observational drawing
- Demonstrate good manipulation control with drawing tools as appropriate to outcomes
- Demonstrate good manipulation control of the formal elements (line, tone, form, pattern, texture, colour) with regards to drawing for purpose
Complete a final outcome
- Showing visual influence from the artists’ investigated in the topic
- Containing visual elements that have been explored or recorded during prep work for the topic
- Using appropriately selected media that has been manipulated to a good standard with control
Year 9 Core Learning Objectives
The curriculum in Year 9 extends students holistic understanding of applying formal elements when developing a Fine Art project with greater independence. The Summer Term unit of work for Year 9 follows investigation of photographic artists and processes through personal photographic outcomes.
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Investigate sources including analysis of artist reference
Refine work through experimentation of ideas and media
Record ideas, observations and insights
Complete a final outcome
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