Photography Curriculum Overview
Team Vision
Creating Artists
Promote creativity, imagination and self-expression.
Rich and diverse cultural experience.
Becoming proficient in a range of artistic media and techniques.
Confidentially use the language of art, craft and design.
Have a strong understanding of careers and art and designs role within society.
Curriculum Intent
KS3
- - A focus on building skills and knowledge in areas such as drawing and painting to provide a strong foundation going forward in the subject.
- - Students have an understanding of proportion, perspective and how to represent a 3 dimensional image on a 2 dimensional plain.
- - Students have a basic knowledge of painting technique and theory.
- - Students produce original, imaginative and personal work.
- - Students are able to talk about a range of artists and art movements linking to their work.
- - Students will explore a wide range of media and processes.
- - Students keep a sketchbook and understand how to develop a project and generate ideas.
- - Students are able to reflect on their work and the work of others in order to progress.
KS4
- - Students are able to develop highly original, personal and imaginative work.
- - Students develop their own style and play to their strengths.
- - Students are able to articulate and record their ideas clearly.
- - Students develop a confidence and skill in the practical areas they choose to pursue.
- - Students are willing to take risks and experiment.
- - Students can critically analyse the work of artists and photographers.
- - Students can use research to help develop their own work.
Long Term Plan
Year 7 focuses on basic skill building to ensure a strong foundation from which to explore the subject. Key skills such as drawing and painting are re visited and built upon in year 8 and 9 – Art is a skill based subject and skills take practice. Throughout KS3 students pupils produce projects in a similar style to GCSE so that those who opt for the subject in Year 10 have a good understanding of how to approach their coursework. In KS4 students produce highly personalised work and spend Year 10 producing projects towards their Component 1 portfolio. These projects start more guided and gradually allow a wider choice of artists and approaches as scaffolding is removed. The last project in Year 10 is set up as a mock of the externally set task so that students have a chance to experience the controlled practical element they will do in Component 2 of year 11. At the start of Year 11 students revisit their projects from Year 10, improving and selecting work for their portfolios before undertaking the Component 2 externally set task in January.