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