Year 8

Curriculum Map

This curriculum map provides an overview of the art and design journey students will experience throughout the academic year. It outlines the sequence of artistic styles, techniques, and influential artists alongside key assessment points designed to monitor and support student progress. The curriculum is carefully sequenced to build knowledge progressively, with each unit providing the foundation for future learning, ensuring all students develop creative expression, technical skills, and critical appreciation appropriate to their age and stage. For detailed information about the specific knowledge and skills taught in each unit, please visit our Knowledge and Skills page.

Half Term	Unit(s) of Work	Key Assessments
Autumn 1 Autumn 2	Introduction to pattern MarkMaking Baseline Assessment Identify and create both regular and irregular patterns. Use lines, shapes, and patterns to create optical illusions. Use proportion, line work, and details Create a variety of marks (dots, line, cross-hatching) for texture and detail. Experiment with different brushes and tools to create expressive marks with paint. Final response, 4 mini concertina of all skills learnt in project.	Baseline assessment
Spring 1 Spring 2	Introduction to Sarah Graham - Sweets Research and understand the history of Sarah Graham. Present research on it in a clear, organised manner. Oil pastel transfer, focusing on layers and colour. Learning the skill if gridding. Applying gridding method to landscape images, the importance of proportion. Creating colour scales, analysis of colour and theory behind balance. Personal response on A3.	Baseline assessment
Summer 1 Summer 2	Introduction to The Ocean 3D Vessel Baseline assessment Artist - Yanella James, looking at style and technique Creating an oil pastel transfer, colour theory Describing texture Sea urchin drawing in pencil Sea urchin drawing - white on black paper Watercolour urchin, technique of bleeding Design your own urchin, show colour and texture Final outcome - Clay urchin	Baseline assessment

Half Term

Unit(s) of Work

Key Assessments

Autumn 1
Autumn 2

Introduction to pattern MarkMaking

Baseline Assessment
Identify and create both regular and irregular patterns.
Use lines, shapes, and patterns to create optical illusions.
Use proportion, line work, and details
Create a variety of marks (dots, line, cross-hatching) for texture and detail.
Experiment with different brushes and tools to create expressive marks with paint.
Final response, 4 mini concertina of all skills learnt in project.

Baseline assessment

Spring 1
Spring 2

Introduction to Sarah Graham - Sweets

Research and understand the history of Sarah Graham.
Present research on it in a clear, organised manner.
Oil pastel transfer, focusing on layers and colour.
Learning the skill if gridding.
Applying gridding method to landscape images, the importance of proportion.
Creating colour scales, analysis of colour and theory behind balance.
Personal response on A3.

Baseline assessment

Summer 1
Summer 2

Introduction to The Ocean 3D Vessel

Baseline assessment
Artist - Yanella James, looking at style and technique
Creating an oil pastel transfer, colour theory
Describing texture
Sea urchin drawing in pencil
Sea urchin drawing - white on black paper
Watercolour urchin, technique of bleeding
Design your own urchin, show colour and texture
Final outcome - Clay urchin

Baseline assessment

This developmental year sees a departure from thematic work. The focus for the year builds upon Year 7, composition, colour and surface. 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 Architectural, Still Life and Natural/Mechanical termly briefs.

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