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Artists who create street art

Sketching street art and designing graffiti letters

Developing graffiti letter designs using digital media

Exploring social messages in street art

Design a street art mural

Use digital techniques to make street art compositions

Pupils will study street art in contemporary culture. They will consider graffiti in the context of lettering artforms and graphic design. They will learn how to draw graffiti letters and street art graphics before designing their own street art composition for a community space artwork.

Street Art: digital and new media

Investigating urban design

Researching the urban environment

Introduction to design thinking

Design a space to play

Design a space for urban wildlife

Design a sustainable transport system

In this unit, pupils will learn the art of portraiture in greater depth. They will learn how artists create expressions, mood and feeling in their portraits using facial features, colour, lighting and props.

Urban Life: Drawing and design

Symbolism and stories in art, craft and design

Drawing: create a character for a story

Develop understanding of symbolism: collect and draw objects

Plan a story artwork including character and objects

Develop a story: creating a scenic composition

Complete a story artwork: colour and detail

Pupils will investigate how artists create meaning and tell stories through their art. They will investigate symbolism in art and develop understanding that visual art, craft and design has multiple meanings beyond its surface depiction to support the development of their own visual literacy.

Meaning and symbolism in art: drawing and painting

Art about conflict

Develop a design for an arpillera

Creating templates for fabric from drawings

Stitch an arpillera

Explore needle felting

Evaluate and refine your arpillera

This unit can be linked with pupils' studies in other curriculum areas on World Wars. They will draw from observation and investigate how artists have responded to war and conflict through textiles, before using their personal ideas of conflict to create an appliqué panel.

War and conflict in art: textiles

The history of Pop Art

Pop Art: in depth artist study

Pop Art: finding sources and researching an idea

Idea development: thinking through sketching

Develop a Pop Art piece

Pop Art: realise a final outcome

In this conceptual art unit, pupils will make art in a medium of their choice on a topical contemporary theme. They will investigate how and why Pop artists from the 1960s to the present day created art.

New Pop Art: sculpture and mixed-media

Festivals from around the world

Creative careers: graphic designer

Creative careers: content creator

Creative careers: fashion designer

Creative careers: makeup artist

Creative careers: games designer

Pupils will learn about different jobs within the creative industries. They will investigate and find out what a range of individuals all do in their day to day lives. They will carry out research and record their findings in creative visual formats working to the theme of 'festival'.

Creative careers: critical and contextual

Painting a portrait with colour and feeling

Layers and symbols: surface, texture and identity

Patterns in medieval art

Raised portraits: representation through dots and relief

Made in collaboration with October Gallery, in this unit pupils express personal identity through portraiture, material, memory and imagination. Pupils create textured paintings, symbolic surfaces, close-up feature portraits, and expressive self-maps that combine journey and face.

Charting self: exploring portrait and identity

Art and design

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