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Year 7

Curriculum Map

Year

Half term

Unit(s) of Work

Key Assessments

Year

7

Autumn 1

Introduction to The Visual Elements:

Exercises about Line, shape, tone, colour, texture

Baseline still life assessment;

Tonal gradient &  basic solid forms;

Colour wheel; beach balls;

Illusion: hand/letter (introduction to typography grid);

Textural pencil challenge

Canonical building design (hand drawn and digital, where possible) with reference to Hundertwasser, Andy Tuohy

Autumn 2

Introduction to The Visual Elements:

Exercises about Line, shape, tone, colour, texture

 

Spring 1

Application of knowledge of The Visual Elements:

Alien Landscape Exercises

A5 seven line pencil study

A5 colour study in pencil crayon

A3 paint/oil pastel & paint study

Spring 2

Alien Landscape Painting completed with mixed media

Summer 1

Application of knowledge of The Visual Elements:

Matt Moore exercises

The rules for developing abstract compositions

The application of tone, colour and texture

Developing an idea based on school subjects

Summer 2

Matt Moore  collaborative Painting

Production of parts of an entire piece or

The production of individual pieces based on a  collaborative theme e.g. science

 

A basic skills course will start the year as an attempt to ease the transition from primary to secondary school and to standardise learning. The year will focus on the use of selected visual elements: line, shape and tone. 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 landscape, figurative and ethnic termly briefs.