   ART & DESIGN - What You Will Learn
Key Stage 3
The following page gives details about what pupils will learn at Key Stage 3 from Year 7 to Year 9. For Key Stage 4 information click on the Key Stage 4 image in the top right corner.
Number of lessons per week: 1 lesson (1 hour)
Further information on Key Stage 3 Art & Design:  National Curriculum Online
There are no statutory national examinations in Key Stage 3 Art, although end of year examinations may be set by the Art department in Years 7, 8 and 9.
Scheme of Work
It is not statutory to cover all the units below and the Art & Design department will decide it's own structure of work based on this material:
In this unit, pupils 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.
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Unit 7B. What's in a building?
In this unit, pupils 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.
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Unit 7C. Recreating landscapes
In this unit, pupils 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.
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Unit 8A. Objects and viewpoints
In this unit, pupils explore familiar objects from different viewpoints as the starting point for their work. They develop their ideas by selecting and abstracting qualities of objects to use as the basis for a painting. They learn about the ideas and approaches of the cubists and their influences and make connections with other artists who worked from still life.
In this unit, pupils explore the use of the moving image to communicate ideas about particular genres or styles of art. They analyse paintings, films, cartoons, illustrations, digital images, photographs and images from contemporary visual culture. They learn how to represent ideas and values using the moving image. They make connections between abstract expressionism, expressionism and pop art of the 1960s and contemporary moving images.
In this unit, pupils explore and use natural and other materials to construct a temporary, site-specific work, which represents a shared view of their locality. They work in groups to make a collective response. They analyse examples of work from different times and cultures where ideas, beliefs and values are shared and communicated through art, craft and design.
In this unit, pupils explore ideas and feelings about an event in their own life as the starting point for image making. They analyse paintings, prints, photographs and digital images, including examples of photojournalism, to learn how visual qualities can be manipulated to evoke strong reactions and to represent ideas, beliefs and values. They make connections between eighteenth- and nineteenth-century paintings and contemporary visual culture.
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Unit 9B. Change your style
In this unit, pupils explore contemporary design and the ways in which artists take ideas from the work of others and synthesise these into new creative forms. They develop their own ideas and design and make woven textiles, a ceramic form, a three-dimensional construction or body adornment. They investigate the influence of art from different cultures and traditions on fashion and design.
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Unit 9C. Personal places, public spaces
In this unit, pupils explore examples of public art in their local area. They research the different ways in which ideas, beliefs and values are represented and shared in their local area and in different times and cultures, including contemporary modern practice. They explore ways of representing their own ideas and then collaborate with others to make a mural or a three-dimensional form for a specific location.
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Unit 10gen. Visiting a museum, gallery or site
This unit provides a structure for a visit to a museum, gallery or site, or any visit outside school. The visit would be most effectively used at the start or in the middle of a unit of work, so that work back at school can be based on the information and experience acquired. If it is used at the end of a unit, it can round off work in an enjoyable and exciting way, but to be effective, pupils must be able to see it as the culmination of what they have been learning.
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Art at Boldon School is good because it is easy to concentrate as it is carried out under a peaceful atmosphere that is created by good discipline. The facilities are excellent as there are a good variety of paintbrushes, paints and other materials. 
