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Art and Design

The Art department at Framwellgate School Durham aims to make art and creativity accessible for all. We aim to encourage students to extend, explore and expand their creative thinking and problem solving skills.

We aim to inspire students by introducing them to artists, craftspeople, designers and movements in art, alongside a variety of art made across different time periods, cultures, and countries.

We aim to expand students’ thinking and challenge preconceived ideas, encouraging them to develop their own opinions, be able to justify these and broaden their own cultural capital.

We aim to enhance and enrich students’ educational experience by encouraging them to express themselves creatively, to feel confident exploring media, and to be able to express their own feelings and opinions fluently, whether in the written or visual form.

Art encourages the development of many transferable skills which enhance learning in other curriculum areas.

Use the page navigation on the left to navigate between year groups. The strands indicated in bold illustrate, for each topic, how the key strands of learning develop over time. Clicking on these will highlight that strand only.

Year 7

  • Unit titles - Unit 1: The basics; core skills and colour theory
    Unit 2: Landscapes
    Unit 3: Op art
  • Concepts - Unit 1: Form, tone, texture, colour theory.
    Unit 2: Perspective, structures of a landscape, composition.
    Unit 3: Scale, form, tone, texture.
  • Methods and techniques - Unit 1: Grid co-ordinates, view finder, mark making
    Unit 2: Application of painting, tints, tones & shades
    Unit 3: Application of gradients using coloured pencil..
  • Media - Unit 1: 2B pencil, chalk, charcoal, block paints
    Unit 2: 2B pencil, colouring pencils, oil pastel, pen, ready mix paints
    Unit 3: 2B pencil, colour pencil.
  • Art history - Unit 1: Ancient art, what is art? Bob and Roberta Smith
    Unit 2: Impressionism, Post -Impressionism
    Unit 3: Bridget Riley, Victor Vasarely.

Year 8

  • Unit titles - Unit 1: Portraits
    Unit 2: Pop Art
    Unit 3: Still life
  • Concepts - Unit 1: Portraiture, self-portrait, symbolism, symmetry
    Unit 2: Composition, contrast, presentation
    Unit 3: Composition, symbolism, scale, form
  • Methods and techniques - Unit 1: Grid, tracing, tone, texture, colour mixing
    Unit 2: Collage, layering, observational drawing, designing.
    Unit 3: Enlarging, reducing, collage, observational drawing, simplifying.
  • Media - Unit 1: 2B pencil, rubber, cotton buds/blending sticks, watercolour paint.
    Unit 2: 2B pencil, mixed media, pen, paint.
    Unit 3: 2B pencil, pen, paint, Photoshop
  • Art history - Unit 1: Romanesque and Gothic, Tony Moore, Hector Gonzales, Chuck Close.
    Unit 2: Pop Art, Patrick Caulfield, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Peter Blake, Richard Hamilton, Claes Oldenburg.
    Unit 3: Dutch Golden Age, Picasso, Michael Craig Martin, Peter & Madeline Powell.

Year 9

  • Unit titles - Unit 1: Printing
    Unit 2: Cubism
    Unit 3: Personal response
  • Concepts - Unit 1: Contrast, silhouette, texture, exploration
    Unit 2: Composition, analytic, synthetic, harmonizing, contrasting.
    Unit 3: Visual language, analysis, developing ideas, refining work, experimentation with materials
  • Methods and techniques - Unit 1: Development of ideas, printing, etching.
    Unit 2: Collage, blending, fragmented, constructing
    Unit 3: Observational drawing, rule of thirds, enlarging, formal element investigation.
  • Media - Unit 1: 2B pencil, printing equipment and materials
    Unit 2: 2B pencil, colouring pencil, collage, chalk and charcoal, block paints
    Unit 3: 2B pencil, pen, PhotoShop, photography, mixed media, paints, collage etc.
  • Art history - Unit 1: Sonnenzimmer, Lucian Freud, William Blake, Albrecht Durer, Georg Baselitz
    Unit 2: Cubism, Picasso, Bruno Del Zou, David Hockney, Low Poly Art
    Unit 3: Jenny Holzer, Georgia O’Keeffe, Gustav Klimt, Tracey Emin, Jim Dine, Kandinski, Marc Chagall, Montse Bernal.

Year 10

  • Unit titles - Unit 1 60% of GCSE grade
  • Concepts - Unit 1: Line, tone, texture, colour, perspective, scale, form, developing ideas, refining work, exploring ideas, experimenting with materials, techniques and processes, compositions, presentation.
  • Methods and techniques - Unit 1: Grid, tracing, application of painting, mark making, enlarging, reducing, collage, layering, observational drawing, constructing, printing, rule of thirds, use of new media.
  • Media - Unit 1: 2B pencil, chalk, charcoal, block paints, colouring pencils, oil pastel, pen, acrylic paints, mono printing, PhotoShop, collage, charcoal, chalk, ink or any other material chosen by the student.
  • Art history - Unit 1: Any artist from ancient art to present day.

Year 11

  • Unit titles - Unit 1 60% of GCSE grade (completed before Christmas)
    Unit 2 40% of GCSE grade (issued early January)
  • Concepts - Unit 2: Line, tone, texture, colour, perspective, scale, form, developing ideas, refining work, exploring ideas, experimenting with materials, techniques and processes, compositions, presentation.
  • Methods and techniques - Unit 2: Grid, tracing, application of painting, mark making, enlarging, reducing, collage, layering, observational drawing, constructing, printing, rule of thirds, use of new media.
  • Media - Unit 2: 2B pencil, chalk, charcoal, block paints, colouring pencils, oil pastel, pen, acrylic paints, mono printing, PhotoShop, collage, charcoal, chalk, ink or any other material chosen by the student.
  • Art history - Unit 2: Any artist from ancient art to present day.

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Year 7

  • Unit titles - Unit 1: The basics; core skills and colour theory
    Unit 2: Landscapes
    Unit 3: Op art
  • Concepts - Unit 1: Form, tone, texture, colour theory.
    Unit 2: Perspective, structures of a landscape, composition.
    Unit 3: Scale, form, tone, texture.
  • Methods and techniques - Unit 1: Grid co-ordinates, view finder, mark making
    Unit 2: Application of painting, tints, tones & shades
    Unit 3: Application of gradients using coloured pencil..
  • Media - Unit 1: 2B pencil, chalk, charcoal, block paints
    Unit 2: 2B pencil, colouring pencils, oil pastel, pen, ready mix paints
    Unit 3: 2B pencil, colour pencil.
  • Art history - Unit 1: Ancient art, what is art? Bob and Roberta Smith
    Unit 2: Impressionism, Post -Impressionism
    Unit 3: Bridget Riley, Victor Vasarely.

Year 8

  • Unit titles - Unit 1: Portraits
    Unit 2: Pop Art
    Unit 3: Still life
  • Concepts - Unit 1: Portraiture, self-portrait, symbolism, symmetry
    Unit 2: Composition, contrast, presentation
    Unit 3: Composition, symbolism, scale, form
  • Methods and techniques - Unit 1: Grid, tracing, tone, texture, colour mixing
    Unit 2: Collage, layering, observational drawing, designing.
    Unit 3: Enlarging, reducing, collage, observational drawing, simplifying.
  • Media - Unit 1: 2B pencil, rubber, cotton buds/blending sticks, watercolour paint.
    Unit 2: 2B pencil, mixed media, pen, paint.
    Unit 3: 2B pencil, pen, paint, Photoshop
  • Art history - Unit 1: Romanesque and Gothic, Tony Moore, Hector Gonzales, Chuck Close.
    Unit 2: Pop Art, Patrick Caulfield, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Peter Blake, Richard Hamilton, Claes Oldenburg.
    Unit 3: Dutch Golden Age, Picasso, Michael Craig Martin, Peter & Madeline Powell.

Year 9

  • Unit titles - Unit 1: Printing
    Unit 2: Cubism
    Unit 3: Personal response
  • Concepts - Unit 1: Contrast, silhouette, texture, exploration
    Unit 2: Composition, analytic, synthetic, harmonizing, contrasting.
    Unit 3: Visual language, analysis, developing ideas, refining work, experimentation with materials
  • Methods and techniques - Unit 1: Development of ideas, printing, etching.
    Unit 2: Collage, blending, fragmented, constructing
    Unit 3: Observational drawing, rule of thirds, enlarging, formal element investigation.
  • Media - Unit 1: 2B pencil, printing equipment and materials
    Unit 2: 2B pencil, colouring pencil, collage, chalk and charcoal, block paints
    Unit 3: 2B pencil, pen, PhotoShop, photography, mixed media, paints, collage etc.
  • Art history - Unit 1: Sonnenzimmer, Lucian Freud, William Blake, Albrecht Durer, Georg Baselitz
    Unit 2: Cubism, Picasso, Bruno Del Zou, David Hockney, Low Poly Art
    Unit 3: Jenny Holzer, Georgia O’Keeffe, Gustav Klimt, Tracey Emin, Jim Dine, Kandinski, Marc Chagall, Montse Bernal.

Year 10

  • Unit titles - Unit 1 60% of GCSE grade
  • Concepts - Unit 1: Line, tone, texture, colour, perspective, scale, form, developing ideas, refining work, exploring ideas, experimenting with materials, techniques and processes, compositions, presentation.
  • Methods and techniques - Unit 1: Grid, tracing, application of painting, mark making, enlarging, reducing, collage, layering, observational drawing, constructing, printing, rule of thirds, use of new media.
  • Media - Unit 1: 2B pencil, chalk, charcoal, block paints, colouring pencils, oil pastel, pen, acrylic paints, mono printing, PhotoShop, collage, charcoal, chalk, ink or any other material chosen by the student.
  • Art history - Unit 1: Any artist from ancient art to present day.

Year 11

  • Unit titles - Unit 1 60% of GCSE grade (completed before Christmas)
    Unit 2 40% of GCSE grade (issued early January)
  • Concepts - Unit 2: Line, tone, texture, colour, perspective, scale, form, developing ideas, refining work, exploring ideas, experimenting with materials, techniques and processes, compositions, presentation.
  • Methods and techniques - Unit 2: Grid, tracing, application of painting, mark making, enlarging, reducing, collage, layering, observational drawing, constructing, printing, rule of thirds, use of new media.
  • Media - Unit 2: 2B pencil, chalk, charcoal, block paints, colouring pencils, oil pastel, pen, acrylic paints, mono printing, PhotoShop, collage, charcoal, chalk, ink or any other material chosen by the student.
  • Art history - Unit 2: Any artist from ancient art to present day.
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Amanda is Chair of the Excel Academy Trust Board. Amanda became a parent governor in 2009 and has enjoyed several responsibilities across this time including being Chair of the Achievement and Standards committee, a member of the Excel Academy Audit committee, and most recently has been appointed as a Member of the Excel Academy Partnership. Her career started out with the Halifax Building Society where she worked as a mortgage advisor for 20 years, before entering the political arena. Amanda is a County Councillor for Durham County Council, representing Framwellgate and Newton Hall ward. Amanda was formerly a student at Framwellgate School Durham, where she met her husband and many other friends, as well as taking on the responsibility of being Deputy Head Girl. Amanda is passionate about the school and local area and is actively involved in the school at every opportunity.

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