Year 7 Curriculum Information Booklet 2018 - 2019

Art
Art is taught to all students at Stretford Grammar School at Key Stage 3, and the National
Curriculum Programme of Study for Art & Design (2014) is used as the basis for curriculum
planning and delivery, as this provides the most recent detailed and applicable content.
Within each Unit, there may be anything from 2-4 individual items of homework set. On
submission, these will be given a mark and summative/formative comments.
Once a Unit is completed, the students are given a Self-Assessment sheet in which they
reflect on their work, and look forward to their future development. These are then
completed by Art staff with assessment and formative comments.
N.B. Apart from the Entry Level Tests, for all Units of Art work at Key Stage 3 there may be
variations in the processes and outcomes involved. The reason for this can be practical,
such as availability of resources and materials, but is more often because the Units
themselves have been designed to be open to individual staff and students’ interpretation
and experimentation. This is the nature of Art.
In Year 7 the aim of the year is to establish basic skills that will help the student in their Art
work at Key Stage 3, and to develop the students’ confidence in a variety of techniques and
outcomes. We would like them to finish the year happy with and confident in their Art work.
Unit 1 – Entry Level Tasks
In order for us to assess a starting level of
ability for all our Key Stage 3 students,
within the first few Art lessons in Year 7 we
ask the students to complete the following
tasks:
An observational Self-Portrait
classwork task using pencil, pencil
shading and a mirror (1 hour).
An expressive Self-Portrait classwork
task using pencil, coloured pencil
and a mirror (1 hour).
A research presentation homework
task on Vincent Van Gogh (2 hours).
When these Tasks are completed, the Art
staff moderate the entire Year 7 group’s
work, and assign starting levels of ability,
as well as Targets for the end of the Year.
Unit 2 – Colour Theory
Students will study the following within this
Unit:
Painting techniques
Primary, Secondary and Tertiary
Colours
Complementary Colours