ART

Staff

Head of Art: Mrs Hawkins

Art Teacher: Mrs Virdi (Year 7 and 8)


Intent


Our art curriculum offers young artists a diverse range of opportunities to explore their learning, express their creative flair and understand how art education shapes their character and culture as well as broadens their minds. Guided by passionate artists and teachers, pupils explore unfamiliar cultural capital, broadening their experience and increasing their awareness of the world around them, preparing them for a life in modern Britain and beyond.


Through our broad and well-balanced curriculum, we offer diverse and inclusive learning experiences for all students at Selly Park Girls’ School. It is our goal to strengthen and challenge students’ learning abilities, helping them create purposeful and meaningful artworks in a supportive and positive learning environment. Our aim is to maximise opportunities where young artists can study art as a life-long skill, being able to put their knowledge gained into practice by making connections with other subjects and daily routines, fulfilling their ambitions in their further education and future career choices.

Curriculum Overview

Key Stage 3

From Year 7, pupils benefit from exploring and understanding artists, designers and craftspeople. This knowledge is developed and utilised throughout Key Stage 3 by creating a wide range of outcomes using a range of materials.


Key Stage 4

The purpose of the GCSE option in Art and Design is to improve the creative and technical skills of its students. Students have the opportunity to increase their skills in independent thinking and ideas development, through drawing, painting, printmaking and ceramics. An integral part of the course is researching the work of artists and developing a personal project.


The department currently offers one subject option at GCSE level – Fine Art – in which pupils will develop their creative, technical and research skills within two assignments. These will be assessed individually and the most successful of these two assignments will be presented as a portfolio for examination at the end of the course. This final assessment will make up 60% of the final examination mark. The pupil portfolio will be assessed according to the following criteria:


Developing ideas

Develop ideas through investigating relevant sources, demonstrating analysis and cultural understanding.


Refining ideas

Refine ideas through experimenting and selecting appropriate resources, media, materials, techniques and processes.


Recording ideas

Record ideas, observations and insights relevant to intentions in visual and/or other forms.


Presenting a final response

Present a personal, informed and meaningful response demonstrating analytical and critical understanding, realizing intentions and, where appropriate, making connections between visual, written, oral or other elements.


The remaining 40% of the marks are allocated to the examination module, which is similar in construction to a controlled assignment, except that the realised final piece is carried out under examination conditions.


During the course, pupils will visit at least 3 galleries and work with a practising artist in school. Students are encouraged to gather primary evidence and to connect their outcomes to all of the research carried out.


Exam Board

OCR


Extra-curricular activities

The Art department operates an open door policy to pupils during lunchtimes and before school. Key Stage 3 students have an Art Club once a week to complete work or to experiment with materials of their choice. Key Stage 4 pupils are encouraged to use the department whenever they can but they do have exclusive use of the rooms on Thursdays before and after school.


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Selly Park Girls' School

5 Selly Park Road

Birmingham

B29 7PH

Tel: 0121 472 1238

Email: enquiry@sellyparkgirls.org

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