Art & Photography

Curriculum Champion

Art - Miss Hemsley

Subject Leader

Miss Dunne

Curriculum Intent

Art

“Art, craft and design embody some of the highest forms of human creativity. A high-quality art and design education should engage, inspire and challenge pupils, equipping them with the knowledge and skills to experiment, invent and create their own works of art, craft and design. As pupils progress, they should be able to think critically and develop a more rigorous understanding of art and design. They should also know how art and design both reflect and shape our history, and contribute to the culture, creativity, and wealth of our nation.” (National Curriculum Art & Design 2019)

Photography

Photography (as with art, craft and design) can make significant contributions to the spiritual, moral, social and cultural dimensions of learning. Through studying the work of both contemporary and historical photographers and artists, from both western and worldwide cultures, our students will understand how this subject empowers humankind to create visual works which celebrate, communicate, make meaning and engage in the highest forms of expression. By the end of KS4 students will:

Understand the meaning of each assessment objective and what is required for meeting each one including how to develop an ideas through research, recording, experimenting and refining, before producing finished outcomes.
Learn about the variety of different genres within photography and how a variety of processes and techniques within each genre can be exploited for the purpose of meaning and communicating ideas.
Explore the ways in which meanings, ideas and intentions can be communicated through the use of figurative and non-figurative forms, image manipulation, close up and imaginative interpretation as well as through visual and tactile elements such as: colour, line, form, tone, texture, shape, pattern, composition, scale, sequence, surface, contrast.
With guidance, be able to progressively develop their own strengths and interests in the subject and increasingly follow their own lines of enquiry.
Understand how to develop their ideas through investigations informed by selecting and critically analysing relevant sources and understanding how they relate to historical, contemporary, social, cultural and issues-based contexts.
Learn how to record their ideas, observations, insights and independent judgements, visually and through written annotation, using appropriate specialist vocabulary, as work progresses.
Explore how to use photographic techniques and processes, appropriate to students’ personal intentions and how to refine their ideas as work progresses through experimenting with: lighting; viewpoint; aperture; depth of field; shutter speed and digital processes.