Visual Arts (Art & Viscom)

How can we create designs that solve problems and benefit society?

How do we translate 3D information into a 2D format?

How can we use manual and digital methods to create 2D and 3D object designs?

How can we use Adobe Illustrator to design objects?

Students will complete a range of activities in the classroom to explore 2D and 3D object designs

Students will develop manual and digital methods to visualise ideas and design objects

Students will be assessed on a range of completed folio tasks exploring developed techniques

How can we use technical drawing to create architectural designs?  

How can we present environmental designs in context?

How do we make a scale model of an architectural design?

Students will develop manual and digital technical drawings and make a scale model of their own design.

Students will complete a range of activities in the classroom to explore 2D and 3D environmental designs.

Students will be assessed on a range of completed folio tasks exploring developed techniques.

How can we explore and express ideas through sculpture?

How can I develop skills using a variety of materials, techniques and processes to create 3D art forms?

How do sculpture artists from different cultures, times and places create art?

Students will complete a range of activities in the classroom to explore the art making processes, ideas and styles including classroom and group discussions, presentations, structured questions, artist studies and independent research

Students document ideas, artistic influences and the exploration of techniques in an Art journal

Students will be assessed on a range of completed folio tasks exploring developed techniques

How can we use traditional and contemporary art practices to inspire our own art making process and style?

How can we use paint, printmaking and ceramic techniques and processes to create art?

How do you develop your own skills, ideas and concepts in the art studio?

Students will complete a range of activities in the classroom to explore the art making processes, ideas and styles including classroom and group discussions, presentations, structured questions, artist studies and independent research.

Students document ideas, artistic influences and the exploration of techniques in an Art journal.

Students will be assessed on a range of completed folio tasks exploring developed techniques.

How can we use Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop to create digital designs for different audiences?

How do designers develop concepts to satisfy client briefs?

How can we use the design process to create digital designs for a variety of purposes? 

Students will complete a range of activities to develop skills using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop to 

Students will use the design process to create digital final presentations.

Students will be assessed on a range of completed folio tasks exploring developed techniques.

What are the design elements and principles?

How can we use the design process to create Visual Communications?

How do designers from the past and present use aesthetics to create designs?

Students will complete a range of activities in the classroom to explore 2D and 3D visual communications

Students will use manual and digital methods to visualise ideas and create packaging nets, logos and posters

Students will be assessed on a range of completed folio tasks exploring developed techniques

How can we use planning and staging to take photographs?

How can we use digital photography, application and editing techniques to create interesting photographs?

What are the key elements of composition and how are they used in photography?

How has the history of photography changed the way we see the world?

Students will be assessed on a range of completed folio tasks exploring developed techniques.

Students will use a digital photography journal to document their folio process.

Students will complete a written assignment about the history of photography. 

How can we explore and express ideas through painting, drawing and printmaking?

How do we use techniques and processes for working with paint, mixed media and printmaking?

What inspires painting and printmaking artists throughout history to create artworks?

Students will complete a range of activities in the classroom to explore the art making processes, ideas and styles including classroom and group discussions, presentations, structured questions, artist studies and independent research.

Students document ideas, artistic influences and the exploration of techniques in an Art journal.

Students will be assessed on a range of completed folio tasks exploring developed techniques.