Art & Design

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Course Notes

Autumn Term - Self-Image

In this unit, students explore their personal identity as a starting point. They create images that reflect their ideas of themselves, working from observation, memory and imagination. They develop skills using traditional materials and processes and have the opportunity to combine traditional and digital media. They learn about the ideas, methods and approaches used by other artists who have made images of themselves and/or portrayed others.

Spring Term – What’s In A Building?

In this unit, students explore their ideas and feelings about buildings and their experiences of walking through spaces. They record interesting features, such as doorways, arches, windows, porches and courtyards. They evolve designs for sculpture based on their studies and produce a sculpture of a building in clay or paper. They look at the work of architects, designers and sculptors.

Summer Term - Recreating Landscapes

In this unit, students explore landscape as the starting point for two-and three-dimensional work. They collect visual and other information by visiting a landscape and by studying the methods, approaches and intentions of artists and craftspeople who use the environment as inspiration.

They manipulate the visual and tactile qualities of materials to convey mood and feeling about a landscape and construct textile-based work.

During the academic year 2002-2003 we are very fortunate to have a sculptor in residence working in the school. The sculptor will be working with a large percentage of art classes as well as other subject areas. The sculptor’s ideas will interact with existing schemes of work, undoubtedly leading to many different and exciting explorations.