Art
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Aims and Objectives:
The Art curriculum at Sha Tin College aims to provide our students with the opportunity to develop their practical and creative skills by making a personal response to their experiences, environment and culture.
The students are able to express themselves through a wide variety of visual and tactile media and learn many transferable skills which can be used in different contexts within the whole-school curriculum and daily life.
Our curriculum is designed in order to build the confidence and self-esteem of every student, regardless of ability. We believe that all students can benefit a great deal studying Art and we strive to ensure that each individual’s interests and needs are catered for throughout the course.
Our year 7, 8 and 9 projects are geared to the specific needs of our students but also satisfy the requirements of the UK National Curriculum at KS3. Art is compulsory in these years and we offer a broad range of study in order to give students a very wide knowledge and understanding of Art and Design.
The year 10/11 curriculum is based on the guidelines for the Edexcel GCSE course (unendorsed). This multi-media approach gives our students a fully rounded Art education and enables a smooth transition to the IB Visual Arts course.
In years 12 &13, students opt for the IB Visual Arts course. We have been delivering this course since 2002 and our students have enjoyed a great deal of success in terms of results and the quality of work produced and exhibited each year.
Our over riding principle is that Art education should be a hugely enjoyable experience for all students.
Art is promoted within the school through exhibitions; trips; displays; the Web site and a variety of events. Many of these are recorded and documented within this site. The Art Department has a pivotal role in promoting and improving the visual appearance of the school.
Our Aims and Objectives can be summed up in the following statements:
The aims of the Art Department at Sha Tin College are to:
- Provide our students with the opportunity to use a wide variety of Art equipment, both traditional and modern, including the use of modern technologies.
- Provide students with the opportunity to develop their appreciation of art and aesthetics, as well as their imaginative and creative skills.
- Develop confidence in the students and encourage them to become independent, creative, innovative learners both as individuals and members of a team.
- Through the study of Art, the students should understand their own Culture and Environment whilst having an appreciation of other’s values and traditions.
- Stimulate and train the Student’s visual awareness, perception and criticism of the arts of various cultures.
- Encourage students to be aware of their own strengths and limitations in Art in order that they can understand how to develop their potential.
- Develop an understanding of safe working practices.
- Enable students to discover, develop and enjoy creative visual expression in the studio and elsewhere, which suits their temperament and ability.
- Encourage the students to have a lively, enquiring and informed attitude towards Art and Design in all its forms, both past and present.
- Engender a life-Long interest in Art and Design and an enjoyment of the Arts in general.
- Prepare students for entry into the most competitive colleges of Art, Design and Architecture.
Curriculum Overview:
(At times, the order of these units of work may change due to the availability of equipment. One teacher may tackle the digital media project first in Year 8, for instance, in order to access our laptop computers. Each teaching group in all year groups will have followed an identical course by the end of each year, however).
Year 7
| Unit 1 | Looking Closely / Printmaking | 10 lessons |
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| Unit 2 | Pop Art / Colour / Painting | 10 lessons |
| Unit 3 | African Art / Picasso / Mixed Media | 10 lessons |
Year 8
| Unit 4 | Natural Forms / Printing / Mixed Media | 12 lessons |
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| Unit 5 | Transformations / Digital Media | 6 lessons |
| Unit 6 | Arts of Asia / Mixed media | 12 lessons |
Year 9
| Unit 7 | GCSE-Style project / Painting This Unit of work is approached in a very similar manner to the GCSE projects in order to allow students to make informed choices at option time. |
15 lessons |
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| Unit 8 | Self/identity / Mixed Media | 15 lessons |
Year 10 GCSE
| Unit 1 (a) | Looking Closely/Painting & Mixed Media | 12 weeks |
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| Unit 2 (a) | Structures / Ceramics | 12 weeks |
| Unit 1 (b) | Looking Closely / Printmaking & Mixed Media | 12 weeks, including a 5 hour examination day in June. |
Year 11 GCSE
| Unit 2 (b) | Mock Examination Unit An open-ended theme is issued and each student can decide to work in whichever media suits them best. |
16 week preparation period, followed by a 10 hour examination during January |
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| Externally set Examination | Examination theme presented by the EDEXCEL examination board. An open-ended theme is issued by the exam board and each student produces work in their strongest media. The theme is the same for every GCSE Art student worldwide. |
10 weeks preparation period, followed by a 10 hour examination during May |
Year 12 IB Visual Arts
| Theme 1 (a &b) | Observation / Mixed media and Surface texture | 10 weeks |
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| Theme 2 | Examination theme presented by the EDEXCEL examination board. An open-ended theme is issued by the exam board and each student produces work in their strongest media. The theme is the same for every GCSE Art student worldwide. |
14 weeks |
| Theme 3 | Initial major theme topic The Students are expected to decide on the direction of their own work and initialize their own major theme. |
10 weeks |
Year 13 IB Visual Arts
| Major Theme | The students produce work, based on their own major theme topic in an independent manner. The work culminates in an exhibition in April, which is examined by a visiting examiner. | 30 school weeks |
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The students are given a great deal of information and assistance during each Unit of work, Project or theme. It is expected that they exercise more independence as they move up through the school.
