Art and Design
Subject Intent
The Art Department aims to make Art and Creativity accessible and inclusive for all. Here we aim to encourage students to extend, explore and expand their creative thinking and problem-solving skills. We aim to inspire students by introducing them to the Formal Elements of Art, artists, craftspeople, designers and movements in art, alongside a variety of Art made across different time periods, cultures and countries.
We aim to enhance skills both physical and analytical, to communicate concepts experiences and ideas in a wide range of media. We aim to develop knowledge, inspire and enthuse creating ‘awe and wonder’ encouraging students to question, query and analyse.
Key Stage 3 Overview
The National Curriculum for Art and Design aims to ensure that all pupils:
- Produce creative work, exploring their ideas and recording their experiences.
- Become proficient in drawing, painting sculpture and other art, craft and design techniques.
- Evaluate and analyse creative works using the language of art craft and design.
- Know about the great artists, craft makers and designers, understand the historical and cultural development of their art forms.
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Key Stage 4 Overview
AQA Art Craft and Design GCSE Qualification
AQA Art and Design follows four set assessment objectives they are as follows:
AO1 - Development (Showing improvement in art skills and developing own styles and ideas)
A02 - Refinement (Is reviewing own work and trying out new materials/processes and improving upon current work)
A03 - Collection (Is collecting artist images, research and commenting on the work of others)
A04 - Final Piece (Is creating a finished piece of work either in your sketchbook or separately based on your research and showing your art skills)
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Introduction to a range of materials and processes before answering question/project brief ‘Welcome to My World’ with own responses relating to the four assessment objectives. Sketchbook 1 (Component 1) is an A3 book, but students can work outside of this and are encouraged to create other works alongside this visual journey. |
Developing ideas into final outcomes these outcomes will be upwards of A2 scale. Students will need extensive time to craft. Some students will be using the grid technique to scale and enlarge their own drawings. Students will trial multi medias in response to artists of their choice and take inspiration from the world around them.
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Exam based question choice for example Analysing and evaluating own work and works of others through annotation & key research. |
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Respond to the assessment objectives and strengthen coursework portfolio & complete sketchbook 2 in full. All students are issued with personalised Action Plans they are to use this to complete any missing tasks and to refine work.. |
Exam (Component 2) released in January. Students are to create a sketchbook in response to chosen theme. Exam guidance followed in timely manner. Students will be expected to work to strict deadlines ready to sit 10 hr final piece at end of unit. |
Submit both components for final marking. Students will be revising for other subject areas as and when they have completed all work. This is also subject to AQA specification deadlines.
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Additional Curriculum Information
Most Able
The Gifted and Talented cohort are given the scaffolding and support to stretch individual learning. We often use A-Level style ‘mini critique sessions’ so that our students can become familiar with more formal feedback from peers surrounding working practices. Multi final pieces are explored rather than one conclusion in response to Assessment Objective 4. We strive for finesse in all areas and encourage students to explore avenues using a wider range of materials and techniques.
SEND
Our SEND pupils are given a fast range of activities in Art lessons that exercise and strengthen the cognitive and physical skills that can be a day to day challenge. Such as oral, tactile, visual, sensory and motor skills. Students use listening skills and ability to work from partial to entire tasks. Our Art Department aims to positively improve the mood of our pupils on a lesson to lesson basis.
Within Jarrow Art Department we aim to include all pupils as they develop on a journey of self-discovery. Consequently, our curriculum enriches our vision and ethos by supporting students to become committed, articulate, curious and happy learners who have the core knowledge and essential skills required for the evolving world they will live in. Supplementing our curriculum is our unrivalled and vast range of extracurricular opportunities. Our purpose is to prepare our students for life in the 21st Century. In doing so they will become:
Flexible in their thinking;
Independent in their learning;
Effective in their communication skills;
Inspired with enthusiasm for continued learning.
Assessment – Impact
Within Key stage 3, sketchbooks assessment will include
- Regular feedback that informs learning and progress.
- Clear guidance on what students have done well and how they can improve in the future.
- Students reflecting on and improving their work as a result of the questions or feedback they receive.
- Parents will not see every page in a student’s book marked. They will see monthly marking and students will receive verbal feedback lesson by lesson.
KS3: Marking will include a full percentage grade where students are awarded on having ‘Beginning’ ‘Developing’ or ‘Secure’ skills. ‘Correct all spelling Inc. subject specific vocabulary. Staff will aim to do this through live marking where possible.
KS4: Highlight all spelling including subject specific vocabulary. Staff aim to do this through live marking where possible. Correct only the subject specific vocabulary, the expectation is that students correct all other errors themselves.
Students will be marked using the AQA Assessment Objectives and awarded marks out of 24 for each objective. These will be added up and total provided along with the current grade.
Homework
Key Stage 3
Students are issued homework which may take the form of a small research task or media testing relevant to the current topic. Additionally, if students do not work to the expected pace within lessons, they are instructed to take their sketchbooks home, or to attend KS3 Art club, to complete activities. In the Art department we value ongoing verbal feedback amidst the current projects within lessons and outside during KS3 Art club or via Teams. Furthermore, we realise that good quality outcomes take time therefore we ask that students invest time outside of lessons to refine and embellish their artworks. Nearing the end of the current project, students have the opportunity to celebrate their work by showing it to their peers during self and peer-assessments.
Key Stage 4
Students are expected to complete sketchbook work and final outcomes at home if work is unfinished within lessons. To scaffold this, students are given a thorough checklist which is personalised and includes deadline dates. Additionally, students are given a portfolio case to ensure their work is protected when taking work away from school.
Beyond the curriculum
The arts provide a platform for all students to access freely communicating through visual means and finding creative solutions by risk taking approaches. Creativity drives innovation and progress, artists and designers can look at things in new, unorthodox ways and come up with new solutions. Within Art and Design we don’t head towards an outcome we explore a journey before implementing results we look at our own personal ideas and plans with an open mind. Students are refining, analysing and evaluating own practice at every opportunity and learning from this as they go. Key skills they can take into chosen industry that are indispensable to all professionals.
For GCSE Photography students will participate in an off- site educational trip. The location differs year to year but past excursions have included Durham Cathedral and the Quayside.
Literacy & Subject Specific Vocabulary
Within the Art department, literacy is embedded within each lesson. Students are expected to independently gather research which is then shared whole class through the Think, Pair and Share method. When observing the work of famous Artists, Designers and Crafts people, biography information is analysed and students are routinely asked to read aloud to their peers. For annotations, subject specific words are provided on literacy mats and are consistently referenced within lessons where students are tasked with structuring sentences to document their thoughts and feelings, reflecting on the work of others and themselves.
Unit 2: 20th Century Depth Studies
Section A The Roaring 20s: USA 1919-1929
Section B Depression and the New Deal: The USA, 1929-1941
Section C War in Vietnam, 1964-1975
