KS3 & KS4 art and design curriculum

Pupils have made progress in developing their creative practice, learning about their strengths. This unit which breaks up the two independent units with a more teacher led one, deepens the pupils skills within their endorsements. Through a series of short workshop activities, students explore further with a range of materials and techniques. They see how the different endorsements can use drawing for purpose in addition to their own specialist skills.

1. Drawing across disciplines
2. Drawing skills: key concepts techniques and exercises
3. Drawing skills: experimental mark-making and breaking the rules
4. Drawing skills: materials equipment and surfaces
5. Drawing skills: observational line and tone
6. Drawing skills: freehand and visual thinking
7. Drawing skills: space layering and composition
8. Drawing skills: digital drawing
9. Drawing skills: drawing with light
10. Drawing skills: drawing with 3D

• Pupils should already have a basic understanding of the focus of their chosen endorsement
• Pupils should know the key characteristics and expectations of their endorsement
• Pupils should already have hands-on experience with a variety of art materials and processes
• Pupils should have a working knowledge of the formal elements of art
• Pupils should already have engaged in self-reflection and evaluation of their strengths and areas for development
• Basic skills in researching and referencing artists, designers, and craftspeople relevant to their endorsement.
• Pupils should have developed some degree of independent working habits