Welcome to the LCS Art Department

Welcome to the LCS Art Department. This site contains an overview of what is covered in art lessons at LCS.

Please feel free to browse the gallery to look at some of the work produced by LCS pupils.

Art Department Curriculum Framework 2007-2008

Art Lesson

Key Stage Three

Year 7

Year 8

Year 9

Autumn 1

Test- Can and Shoe drawing

Texture- mixed media/mark-making
Clay slab

Test- Pencil case drawing

Portraits- Picasso Faces

ICT - Dazzle

Test- Packaging drawing

Pop Art/Identity- painting/collage

Autumn 2

Shape and Tone- Still life

ICT - Internet Research

Portraits cont’d
(Arts Week)

Pop Art - cont'd

Spring 1

Test - Shoe, can plus one other object

Colour
Painting
Abstract Art

Cubism
Expressionism
Painting

Test - Pop Art Image

Pop Art cont’d

Spring 2

Colour cont’d

Clay
Masks/cultural

Recycled Forms - group project

Summer 1

Landscape
Impressionism
Painting/mixed media

Designers in Art
(enterprise)
Competition

Mini-projects:

1. ICT-Photoshop illustration
2. Printmaking
3. Enterprise (mural)

Summer 2

Enteprise
Design a calendar competition
(seasons/Matisse)

Sweets
Card Sculpture

Mini-mural projects - cont'd

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Key Stage Four

Year 10

Year 11

Autumn 1

Introduction to GCSE- Key Stage Four Booklet

Unit 1 - Natural Forms: Mixed Media

  • Skills based workshops

Unit 3:

  • Cultures final piece (9 weeks)
  • Deadline 9th Nov

(Marking Unit 3 12-16th Nov)

Autumn 2

Unit 1:

  • Developing a final piece

Gallery Visit: Nov-

  • Artist and cultural research

Mock Exam

  • 12th Nov papers issued (5 weeks prep)- ‘Natural Forms’, ‘South Asia’ ‘Cubism’ or ‘Mixed Media’
  • 10 hour exam last week Dec

Christmas Homework

Observational drawings- festive theme

Self evaluation sheet

Spring 1

Unit 1:

  • Final pieces
  • Homeworks link to Unit 2 figure and face drawings
  • Deadline 15th Feb

(Marking Unit 1 25-29 Feb)

Porfolio analysis

  • Finishing coursework (9 weeks)
  • Deadline 18th March

(Marking Mock Exam 14-18 Jan)

 

Spring 2

Unit 2 – Identity:Painting

  • Drawings and acrylic painting workshops

10th March- Mock Exam papers issued- exam prep

Exam

  • 20th March papers issued
  • Exam prep (4 weeks plus holidays)

Easter Homework

Mock Exam Prep

Exam Prep

Summer 1

Mock Exam- ‘Identity’

  • Exam Prep and five hour exam (May ? 2hrs + 3 lessons)

(Marking Mock Exam 19-23rd May)

(21st April- one day off timetable marking coursework)

Exam Prep cont’d

Exam 6th and 7th May

(Marking Exam 12-16th May)

Summer 2

Unit 2:

  • Finish final piece from exam
  • Deadline 13th June

(Marking Unit 2 16-20th June)

Unit 3- Cultures:Sculpture

  • Drawings from masks, cultural research

(Moderation and Exhibition)

Summer Homework

Unit 3 research cont’d.

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