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Two Units of Work originally focused on Y7 Students.

These units of work have been developed by me over the course of 20 years as a teacher. They consist of 36 weeks’ worth of tasks.

Unit 1: Benchmarking Test
Unit 1 is a benchmarking test in which students are taught a range of skills. They are asked to produce a still life response based on a set of sweets. This unit serves as a vehicle to teach students basic techniques in observational drawing, including shape, form, detail, pencil, coloured pencil, watercolour, and pen and ink.

Unit 1 also incorporates a written evaluation, where students are asked to analyse a piece of artist’s work and break it down into core areas. This unit is an excellent benchmarking tool that provides a full set of assessed criteria to help an art department guide the differentiation of future work. Put simply at the end staff should have a full break down of students abilities in the subject.

Included in the Pack:
Two full schemes of work covering the full academic year, with medium-term planning sheets for both Unit 1 and Unit 2, including:

Stage-by-stage outlines

Aims, objectives, and national curriculum references

Breakdown of task differentiation

General resources list

Unit 1: Benchmarking
Example photos of still life sweets, differentiated by level

Artwork evaluation PowerPoint presentations for teacher use, including discussion breakdowns

Printable handouts for all tasks (low, mid, and high ability levels)

Handouts with tips and tricks for completing each of the four processes

Standardised examples of final still life pieces for staff reference

Support handout on annotation

Total: 15 separate files (Word, PDF, and PowerPoint formats)

Unit 2: Pop Art Portraiture Project (Based on Roy Lichtenstein). Its a vehicle used t
Acrylic painting handouts

Green screen support handouts

Introduction to the course PowerPoint

Task one: printable grid handouts, differentiated by ability level (low, mid, high)

Extension work handouts for all stages

Acrylic painting workshops

A 31-page homework booklet with 12 tasks aimed at KS3 students, covering all IGCSE and GCSE assessable AOs

Total: 15 separate files (Word, PDF, and PowerPoint formats)

Learning Objectives Covered Across Both Units:

LO: Observational work – shapes, forms, details

LO: Observational work – typeface and graphic design

LO: Observational work – perspective

LO: Media – pencil, coloured pencil, pen, watercolour, acrylic

LO: skills (too many to mention!) block colouring, pressure shading, hatching, cross hatching, stippling, dry brush blending… the list goes on!

LO: Artist analysis

LO: Artist response work

LO: Research and development

LO: Composition, perspective, and depth

LO: Media experimentation

LO: Formative and summative evaluation

All assessment and feedback sheets are included as part of the handouts and are also provided in editable formats so that staff can adapt them to fit the assessment structures of their schools.