Art

Head of Department: Mr M Bal

Email: balm@hanson.org.uk

The Goal of Art at Hanson across all year groups is flip the creative switch in all students and start them on their journey as a young artist, to increase their wealth of knowledge and cultural capital. In KS3 will first explore the formal elements of Art and access areas such as painting, drawing, sculpture and printmaking. Students will study classic artists from Leonardo Da Vinci & Picasso, Local Artist such as Barbara Hepworth, David Hockney and artists still working today such as Aerosol Ali, Kimmy Cantrell and Carla Solheim. Looking at movements that span from the renaissance, abstraction, expressionism, Surrealism, cubism, Steampunk, Pop Art and Graffiti.

By the time each student finishes art in year 9 we want them to be confident practitioners and have expansive understanding of Art and Design.

At KS4 students art given a very practical first month starting off the Mini Project ’20 Minute Techniques’ in which students revisit skills they may have done in earlier years as well as exciting new techniques they wouldn’t have been able to do before. The idea is that before the start their GCSE course work, they are equipped and reinspired to take the first Project ‘Identity’ down any route, medium, style they please. Students will be introduced to new artists and thoroughly taught how GCSE artwork is marked using the Assessment Objectives  A01-AO4. Each half term in year  they will have a drop down day in which they will focus one particular skill be it Oil Painting, Photoshop, Portraiture, or Print Making these are not only to build up there skills but increase their body of work in their Portfolio. They will learn how to write about Art and engage with Art and aim for at least one trip each year. The GSCE grade is 60% portfolio and 40% Exam in year 11 term 2 students are given various prompts in which to respond to and given 12 weeks to respond and will sit a 10-hour exam across 2 days. We have had some tremendously talented students go on to do great things and the choice for Art at GCSE is very popular for a reason, we have a growing 6^th catchment and always supportive of students going to pursue the Arts at college.

Exam Specification: AQA | GCSE | Art and Design | Specification at a glance

Revision website: GCSE Art and Design – BBC Bitesize