KS3 Art · Year 7 · ages 11–12
Six half-term units, in the order we teach them: the formal elements of line, shape and tone; colour and texture; pattern, symmetry and printing; art before writing, from Lascaux to the Bayeux Tapestry; clay and natural forms; and a personal response to an artist. Below is what each unit asks pupils to produce, the artists it studies and the skills it teaches, taken from our Year 7 Art & Design scheme of work.
Six half-termly units, written backwards from what Year 8 states it assumes on entry. Year 7 establishes the formal elements, the colour wheel, first paint and print handling, informal clay, and the habit of keeping the working-out.
Year 7 means ages 11–12, or P7–S1 in Scotland.
Unit 1a · Autumn 1 · approx. 7 weeks · September – October
How do you draw something so that someone else can tell what it is?
Unit 1b · Autumn 2 · approx. 7 weeks · November – December
Can you make a picture that someone can almost feel?
Unit 2a · Spring 1 · approx. 6 weeks · January – February
Why does a repeated shape stop looking like a shape and start looking like a pattern?
Unit 2b · Spring 2 · approx. 6 weeks · February – April
How did people tell stories before anyone could write them down?
Unit 3a · Summer 1 · approx. 6 weeks · April – May
What can you make with your hands that you could never draw?
Unit 3b · Summer 2 · approx. 6 weeks · June – July
What can I take from an artist and make my own?
The scheme maps each requirement of the statutory programme of study for key stage 3 art and design (Department for Education, 2013) to the unit that teaches it. Pupils should be taught to…
Unit 2b takes the key stage's historical range back to approximately 17,000 BCE. With Year 8's Egyptian, Islamic, Greek and Nok sources and Year 9's 19th and 20th century artists, “from ancient times up to the present day” is met across the three years with real breadth rather than by assertion. If 2b is dropped or replaced, that claim no longer holds for the key stage.
Two PDFs sit behind this page, and they are meant to be used together: the scheme of work to plan the year, the knowledge organisers to put in front of pupils.
Art & Design · Key Stage 3£4.99
Full description on the Year 7 Art scheme of work page.
The statutory programme of study for key stage 3 art and design (DfE, 2013)·33 pages, 8 sections·For heads of art, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it
KS3 Art & Design · Year 7 · six A4 sheets£3.99
Full description on the Year 7 Art knowledge organisers page.
Written to Empower Educators Year 7 Art & Design scheme of work·6 pages, 6 sections·For art teachers and heads of department. Printed one per pupil
Six half-term units, in the order they are taught: The Formal Elements: Line, Shape and Tone, Colour and Texture, Pattern, Symmetry and Printing, Telling Stories: Art Before Writing, Clay: Natural Forms and Artists and Me.
An A3 observational drawing of a still life group, using line, shape and a three-step tonal range; An A3 mixed-media study of a textured natural object, using a colour scheme chosen for a reason; A printed repeat pattern made with found objects and hand-cut stamps, from a designed motif; A narrative sequence of three images telling one story, using an earth-pigment palette; A modelled clay natural form with a worked surface, made by pinching and modelling from one piece; A personal response to one artist chosen from a departmental shortlist, with the research and experiments kept.
It maps each requirement of the statutory programme of study for key stage 3 art and design (Department for Education, 2013) to the unit that teaches it, and on this year the scheme is plain: “Unit 2b takes the key stage's historical range back to approximately 17,000 BCE.”
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