Art
Art
- Arts Week, in which Y7 pupils create ambitious, interesting work at the end of the Summer Term.
- Gifted and Talented Lunchtime Art group in Y9 to help students enhance their learning and prepare for GCSE Art
- Community Project, run by Mr Tran, in which Y9 Gifted and Talented art pupils create a mural to enhance a community building including a Children’s Hospital ward.
- GCSE & A Level Exhibition Evening in May that celebrates the success of our Y11, Y12 and Y13 students.
Art Curriculum
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| During their first term at Trinity, pupils learn foundation skills in order to improve as artists, build confidence and engagement, and prepare them for future assignments.
Skills: |
Skills: Foundation Skills Colour Theory Coloured Pencil Use Paint Application Using a sketchbook Developing their own ideas |
Pupils develop mostly their painting and colour application skills they have learned during the Autumn Term, through assignment work, applying their skills and knowledge to a piece of work they plan and work on each lesson.
Skills: |
Skills: Using paints and coloured pencils effectively in their assignmentsUsing a sketchbook Developing their own ideas |
Pupils complete the painting assignment this term
Skills: Refining their work |
Pupils develop their drawing skills applying their knowledge to an animal portrait assignment
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| Pupils build on Y7 skills. More technical drawing skills and more complex knowledge are built up. Work is assignment based Still Life Drawing & Painting AssignmentSkills: Measured Drawing of objects Using a sketchbook Developing their own ideas |
Still Life Drawing & Painting assignment
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Perspective & Architecture
Skills & Knowledge: |
Perspective & Architecture
Skills & knowledge: |
Perspective & Architecture
Relevant Artists |
Illuminated Manuscripts
Skills & Knowledge |
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Now more confident artists, Y9 pupils experiment with a wider variety of materials and processes |
Day of the Dead Assignment
Skills And Knowledge: Learning about other cultures Learning about different Art processes Printmaking Using a sketchbook Developing their own ideas |
Natural Forms Assignment
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Natural Forms Assignment
Skills And Knowledge: |
Natural Forms Assignment
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Short workshops in various materials & art processes eg sgraffito, figure drawing. These short projects keep Y9 engaged in the late summer term. Future GCSE students are given GCSE prep to do – eg painting practice |
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| Unit 1 Portfolio Still Life AssignmentSkills & Knowledge: Technical drawing skills are developed at a high level by completing a series of measured drawings of still life objects Keeping a high level sketchbook for artists’ research (and how it links to their own work), experimentation and developing their own ideas ideas |
Unit 1 Portfolio Still Life AssignmentSkills & Knowledge: Enlarging drawings Oil Painting skills |
Unit 1 Portfolio Still Life AssignmentCritical studies Oil Painting skills |
Unit 1 Portfolio Portraits AssignmentSkills & Knowledge Photography Mixing Skin Tones Creating texture using oils Experimenting with drawing and painting materials Critical studies Using a sketchbook Developing their own ideas |
Unit 1 Portfolio Portraits AssignmentMixing Skin Tones Creating skin texture in oils Experimenting with drawing and painting materials Critical studies Using a sketchbook Developing their own ideas |
Unit 1 Portfolio Portraits AssignmentUnderstanding of what makes a great portrait Selecting relevant artists Own research Photography Planning their own work Personal ideas development |
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| Unit 1 Portfolio In Y11 Students are encouraged to come up with their own ideas for their work, a personal investigation into Portraits. Most choose this topic and thrive with this approach to their learning. Alternatively students can choose to work on a Natural Forms assignment and also follow their own ideas based on this theme. Sketchbook keeping to record their ideas and experimentation is a vital part of this work.Portraits AssignmentUnderstanding and analysing the work of relevant artists Own research Photography Experimentation Planning their own work Personal ideas development |
Unit 1 Portfolio Personal Investigation Skills as in Term 1 + refining their work |
Unit 2 Exam Students work on the external exam set by the AQA and choose from 7 different starting points for an assignment of their choice. They work in the same way as for Unit 1, keeping a sketchbook, researching their chosen theme etc. By this point, students’ skills have been developed and refined and this is often the exam work is often their best work, with students going all out to create photoshoots etc to get the best possible images to work from. |
Unit 2 Exam Students complete final ideas for their exam and in March Students sit the 10 hour exam in the Art department over 3 days. |
Exhibition & Moderation
Students select their work for exhibition and assessment. They learn how to display their work effectively for exhibition and attend the evening event to celebrate their achievement with family and friends. |
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