Art – Key Stage 3 Curriculum Plan

Shape, Form and Tone has been designed to teach students the core visual elements of art and how to use them to create three-dimensional effects in two-dimensional work. This will be supported by looking at the work of others including artists such as Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore.

Shape, Form, Tone, gradient, shading, 3D, 2D, Cross hatching, Stippling, hatching, medium, value, proportion, scale, metallic, composition

You can support your child with their work by ensuring that they have space to practice their art and complete their homework at home. Having some art supplies at home sets children up to succeed – Even just a few pencils and rubbers make a difference! Children who have access to art outside of school often excel in art at school. You can access places like the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, The Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield, Millenium Gallery, or Graves Park Gallery in Sheffield. These are free or discounted for families and have great public transport links. Exposure to art helps children understand their art lessons on a deeper level.

Tate Kids is brilliant for expanding your child’s knowledge and passion for art.

Art and Design – BBC Bitesize is a great source for expanding specific artist knowledge.

What’s on at The Hepworth Wakefield – Free entry for children, £10 for adults What’s on – Exhibitions |

Yorkshire Sculpture Park – Free for children, £9.50 for adults

Graves Gallery – Free for everyone

Millennium Gallery – Free for everyone

National Saturday Club – Explore exciting subjects on Saturday mornings for free – A free Saturday club for children 13-16, based in a Higher Education setting, with a ‘Summer Show’ of children’s work in Somerset House, London.

Colour is the second project and begins by teaching the fundamentals of colour theory and how different hues relate to one another. Students will then get to explore a range of artists such as Kandinsky, Hundertwasser, and Warhol who use colour to create mood, meaning, and visual impact in their work.

• Still Life
• Primary
• Secondary
• Tertiary
• Complementary
• Monochrome
• Analogous
• Grid
• Onomatopoeia
• Architect
• Abstract
• Geometric

You can support your child with their work by ensuring that they have space to practice their art and complete their homework at home. Having some art supplies at home sets children up to succeed – Even just a few pencils and rubbers make a difference! Children who have access to art outside of school often excel in art during lessons. You can access places like the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, The Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield, Millenium Gallery, or Graves Park Gallery in Sheffield. These are free or discounted for families and have great public transport links. Exposure to art helps children understand their art lessons on a deeper level.

Tate Kids is brilliant for expanding your child’s knowledge and passion for art.

Art and Design – BBC Bitesize is a great source for expanding specific artist knowledge.

What’s on at The Hepworth Wakefield – Free entry for children, £10 for adults What’s on – Exhibitions |

Yorkshire Sculpture Park – Free for children, £9.50 for adults

Graves Gallery – Free for everyone

Millennium Gallery – Free for everyone

National Saturday Club – Explore exciting subjects on Saturday mornings for free – A free Saturday club for children 13-16, based in a Higher Education setting, with a ‘Summer Show’ of children’s work in Somerset House, London.

Line Pattern Texture is a project designed to look at a wide range of techniques such as stippling, crosshatching, and sgraffito. Students will use a range of artist materials to create samples and experiments. These techniques will then be applied and used in a range of work supported by artists who use line, pattern and texture in their own work.

Line, Implied Texture, Actual Texture, Tactile, Crosshatching, Sgraffito, Pattern, Gestural, Motif, Form, Movement.

You can support your child with their work by ensuring that they have space to practice their art and complete their homework at home. Having some art supplies at home sets children up to succeed – Even just a few pencils and rubbers make a difference! Children who have access to art outside of school often excel in art during lessons. You can access places like the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, The Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield, Millenium Gallery, or Graves Park Gallery in Sheffield. These are free or discounted for families and have great public transport links. Exposure to art helps children understand their art lessons on a deeper level.

Tate Kids is brilliant for expanding your child’s knowledge and passion for art.

Art and Design – BBC Bitesize is a great source for expanding specific artist knowledge.

What’s on at The Hepworth Wakefield – Free entry for children, £10 for adults What’s on – Exhibitions |

Yorkshire Sculpture Park – Free for children, £9.50 for adults

Graves Gallery – Free for everyone

Millennium Gallery – Free for everyone

National Saturday Club – Explore exciting subjects on Saturday mornings for free – A free Saturday club for children 13-16, based in a Higher Education setting, with a ‘Summer Show’ of children’s work in Somerset House, London.

Our second project, fears and phobias, allows students to use their creative expressions and use a range of art materials and mediums. After researching, planning and studying the work of others, a final piece will be produced. This will encapsulate their ideas as well as techniques and effects they have learned and taken from a range of artists.

• Expressive
• Terror
• Dark
• Shade
• Intense
• Contrast
• Distortion
• Chaotic Composition
• Eemptiness
• Perspectives.

You can support your child with their work by ensuring that they have space to practice their art and complete their homework at home. Having some art supplies at home sets children up to succeed – Even just a few pencils and rubbers make a difference! Children who have access to art outside of school often excel in art during lessons. You can access places like the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, The Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield, Millenium Gallery, or Graves Park Gallery in Sheffield. These are free or discounted for families and have great public transport links. Exposure to art helps children understand their art lessons on a deeper level.

Tate Kids is brilliant for expanding your child’s knowledge and passion for art.

Art and Design – BBC Bitesize is a great source for expanding specific artist knowledge.

What’s on at The Hepworth Wakefield – Free entry for children, £10 for adults What’s on – Exhibitions |

Yorkshire Sculpture Park – Free for children, £9.50 for adults

Graves Gallery – Free for everyone

Millennium Gallery – Free for everyone

National Saturday Club – Explore exciting subjects on Saturday mornings for free – A free Saturday club for children 13-16, based in a Higher Education setting, with a ‘Summer Show’ of children’s work in Somerset House, London.

Looking at drawing is a project designed to support students’ observational skills as well as being shown a wide range of art techniques that are used by artists old and new. During this project, techniques such as the grid method, continuous line and timed drawings will be explored as well as learning how to handle certain art materials such as graphite, ink, and charcoal.

• Kathe Kollwitz
• Frida Kahlo
• Alberto Giacometti
• Shape method
• Gridding method
• Composition
• Atmospheric
• Rule of thirds,
• Timed drawings
• Typography
• Observe
• Continuous line
• Colour wash
• Expressive
• Scribbly
• Texture

You can support your child with their work by ensuring that they have space to practice their art and complete their homework at home. Having some art supplies at home sets children up to succeed – Even just a few pencils and rubbers make a difference! Children who have access to art outside of school often excel in art during lessons. You can access places like the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, The Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield, Millenium Gallery, or Graves Park Gallery in Sheffield. These are free or discounted for families and have great public transport links. Exposure to art helps children understand their art lessons on a deeper level.

Tate Kids is brilliant for expanding your child’s knowledge and passion for art.

Art and Design – BBC Bitesize is a great source for expanding specific artist knowledge.

What’s on at The Hepworth Wakefield – Free entry for children, £10 for adults What’s on – Exhibitions |

Yorkshire Sculpture Park – Free for children, £9.50 for adults

Graves Gallery – Free for everyone

Millennium Gallery – Free for everyone

National Saturday Club – Explore exciting subjects on Saturday mornings for free – A free Saturday club for children 13-16, based in a Higher Education setting, with a ‘Summer Show’ of children’s work in Somerset House, London.

Portraiture features very heavily in the world of art and can take on a whole range of styles and looks. This project aims to create artistic representation of people through the work of others. Students will learn of artists who have studied faces, from the realistic painterly style of Lucian Freud to Pablo Picassos abstract, fractured and cubist approach. The project will end with an opportunity for students to create their own portrait final piece.

• Fragmented
• Aabstract
• Analytical
• Synthetic
• Distorted
• Proportion
• Tribal
• Realism
• Portrait
• Cubism
• Pablo Picasso
• Lucian Freud
• Lui Ferreyra
• Francis Bacon
• Kimmy Cantrell

You can support your child with their work by ensuring that they have space to practice their art and complete their homework at home. Having some art supplies at home sets children up to succeed – Even just a few pencils and rubbers make a difference! Children who have access to art outside of school often excel in art during lessons. You can access places like the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, The Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield, Millenium Gallery, or Graves Park Gallery in Sheffield. These are free or discounted for families and have great public transport links. Exposure to art helps children understand their art lessons on a deeper level.

Tate Kids is brilliant for expanding your child’s knowledge and passion for art.

Art and Design – BBC Bitesize is a great source for expanding specific artist knowledge.

What’s on at The Hepworth Wakefield – Free entry for children, £10 for adults What’s on – Exhibitions |

Yorkshire Sculpture Park – Free for children, £9.50 for adults

Graves Gallery – Free for everyone

Millennium Gallery – Free for everyone

National Saturday Club – Explore exciting subjects on Saturday mornings for free – A free Saturday club for children 13-16, based in a Higher Education setting, with a ‘Summer Show’ of children’s work in Somerset House, London.

What is Cubism? | Tate Kids

The Art of Kimmy Cantrel

Horror-film imagery makes an arresting portrait | Francis Bacon | UNIQLO ARTSPEAKS