Core Knowledge and Skills

• Introduce themes, pupils choose their topic for coursework, then make sure their work connects to their theme in the guided lessons.
• Students focus on drawing skills:
  • Tone, directional line, good use of pencil control.
  • Painting
  • Printing- various
  • Charcoal/chalk
  • Mixed media work

Enriched Knowledge

• When annotating their work pupils make personal connections to their topic and themes.

Key Vocabulary

• Formal elements
• Annotation
• Proportions
• Tonal range
• Observation

Core Knowledge and Skills

• Continue with drawing and painting workshops but also explore photography including manual manipulations.
• Pupils who attend trip (London or Pitt Rivers) can use inspiration from there.
• Pupils learn how to annotate their drawings.
• Pupils select their best work and present their drawings and photography in their sketchbooks.

Enriched Knowledge

• When annotating their work pupils make personal connections to their topic and themes.

Key Vocabulary

• Colour palette
• Texture
• Abstract colour
• Narrative

Core Knowledge and Skills

• Pupils start to research artists for homework and develop their writing skills in art.
• Pupils start to develop their ideas by exploring artists (AO2) that connect to their theme or their way of working.

Enriched Knowledge

• When researching artists pupils start to look for the deeper meaning in the work of others, this helps them develop their own meanings within their work.

Key Vocabulary

• Composition
• Narrative
• Contemporary
• Historical
• Cultural

Core Knowledge and Skills

• Pupils develop their writing by independently researching and discussing the work others and where possible make comparisons.
• Pupils continue to develop their knowledge of materials and techniques by responding to artists independently.

Enriched Knowledge

• Pupils draw inspiration from the world around them and see how artists work, how they capture and affect the world around them and how they bring their own experiences into their art.

Key Vocabulary

• Vocabulary will vary based on coursework choices.

Core Knowledge and Skills

• Pupils continue to explore artists relating to their theme and respond to their work.
• Pupils build on their presentation skills as well as their writing skills.

Enriched Knowledge

• The independent nature of art means that pupils must be organised and prepared for their lessons.
• The ownership of their coursework gives them valuable skills and lessons in independence.

Key Vocabulary

• Vocabulary will vary based on coursework choices.

Core Knowledge and Skills

• In the final half term pupils need to start developing their ideas using inspiration from the artists and sources they have looked at.
• They start to create work that is inspired by the artists but it purely their own idea and are able to explain how they have been inspired.

Enriched Knowledge

• As pupils move into the AO3 part of the coursework they develop their own ideas, a lot of problem solving and risk taking happens at this stage, invaluable skills for their life after school.

Key Vocabulary

• Vocabulary will vary based on coursework choices.

Core Knowledge and Skills

• Pupils develop their ideas and start to create final piece ideas. (AO1)

Enriched Knowledge

• Problem solving, resilience and independent thinking.

Key Vocabulary

• Development
• Refinement
• Self reflection
• Analysis
• Subject specific vocab will depend on pupils’ chosen topic

Core Knowledge and Skills

• Pupils use the skills they have learned to create a final piece for their coursework. (AO4)
• First day back after Christmas break is the final deadline for coursework.

Enriched Knowledge

• Problem solving, risk taking, resilience and self evaluation.

Key Vocabulary

• Final pieces
• Self-reflection

Core Knowledge and Skills

• OCR set a brief with 5 topics. Pupils work on their chosen topic through drawings and photography, start to research artists.
• Students present their work on boards.

Enriched Knowledge

• Independence, creativity, resilience, time keeping/sticking to time constraints.

Key Vocabulary

• Observational studies
• Photography
• Recording
• Experimentation

Core Knowledge and Skills

• Pupils research at least 2 artists, start to create combined responses, final piece ideas.

Enriched Knowledge

• Resilience, self reflection, refinement.

Key Vocabulary

• Experimentation
• Develop
• Refine

Core Knowledge and Skills

• Final refinements for final piece idea.
• Final piece created in 10 hour exam.

Enriched Knowledge

• Time keeping, courage and resilience.