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Year 9

Curriculum Map

Year

Half term

Unit(s) of Work

Key Assessments

Year 9

Autumn 1

 

Introduction to GCSE:

Architecture and City Promotion

Architectural Drawing:

 

Aerial Perspective exercise

Mathematical exercise

Canonical exercise

Textural architectural Detail exercise (Ian Murphy)

Autumn 2

Gathering iconic source materials,  drawing from them and revising them: 4 x A6, 2 x A5 samples

A5 City image copy

Using sources to make compositions

Revising composition

Spring 1

Typography: Developing a title from a suitable selected letter

Using and applying a typography grid

Study of characteristics of a single letter

Devising needed letters in the style of the single

Spring 2

Producing an accurate A4 final response in dry materials

Accuracy of drawing

Colour theory

Pencil application

Rules for Composition

Appropriate style & placing of lettering

Summer 1

Producing a final A3 graphic poster promoting a world city:

Scaling up to A3

Accurate drawing

Considered composition

Appropriate style & placing of lettering

Painting trials and samples

Painting techniques

Order of application in painting process

Digital exercises: if room available

Summer 2

Producing a final A3 graphic poster promoting a world city:

Scaling up to A3

Accurate drawing

Considered composition

Appropriate style & placing of lettering

Painting trials and samples

Painting techniques

Order of application in painting process

Digital exercises: if room available

 
Year 9 seeks to rehearse boys for Art and Design as an option in Key Stage 4.  The use of a sketchbook becomes more important and embedding the skills involved in the design process take priority.  Homework takes become more important this year to inform and personalise lesson activity. Outcomes for each term will be in the media of Painting and Drawing, Graphics and 3D work. Boys will produce work as a response to Portrait, typography and 1960s termly briefs. A selected number of boys will be asked to involve themselves in Primary Liaison in the Summer Term.