KS3 Art · Year 8 · ages 12–13
Six half-term units, in the order we teach them: colour and paint; the human figure and face; pattern across cultures, ancient to modern; relief printmaking; clay and the vessel; and an artist study with a personal response. Below is what each unit asks pupils to produce, the artists it studies and the skills it teaches, taken from our Year 8 Art & Design scheme of work.
Six half-termly units, sequenced so each builds what the next assumes. Year 7 establishes the formal elements; this year builds breadth of media and the historical range the key stage requires; Year 9 turns both toward personal and thematic work.
Year 8 means ages 12–13, or S1–S2 in Scotland.
Unit 1a · Autumn 1 · approx. 7 weeks · September – October
Why does the same colour look different depending on what sits next to it?
Unit 1b · Autumn 2 · approx. 7 weeks · November – December
What has to be right before a drawing of a person starts to look like a person?
Unit 2a · Spring 1 · approx. 6 weeks · January – February
Who does a pattern belong to, and what changes when it travels?
Unit 2b · Spring 2 · approx. 6 weeks · February – April
What does a process give you that drawing by hand cannot?
Unit 3a · Summer 1 · approx. 6 weeks · April – May
Why has almost every civilisation made pots, and why do they all look different?
Unit 3b · Summer 2 · approx. 6 weeks · June – July
If I choose the artist and the outcome myself, can I still work like an artist?
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…
This year was designed to close two gaps that Year 9 leaves. Year 9's artists begin in 1839 and it covers painting only lightly, so Unit 1a is a painting unit and Units 2a and 3a work from sources dating to c. 3000 BCE and c. 620 BCE. Taken with Year 7, the key stage now meets the “ancient times up to the present day” requirement genuinely rather than by assertion. Check this holds if you reorder the units.
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 8 Art scheme of work page.
The statutory programme of study for key stage 3 art and design (DfE, 2013)·35 pages, 8 sections·For heads of art, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it
KS3 Art & Design · Year 8 · six A4 sheets£3.99
Full description on the Year 8 Art knowledge organisers page.
Written to Empower Educators Year 8 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: Colour and Paint, The Human Figure and Face, Pattern Across Cultures: Ancient to Modern, Relief Printmaking, Clay and the Vessel and Artist Study and Personal Response.
An A3 painted study of a still life or landscape source, mixed from a limited palette; An A3 half-length figure or portrait study, constructed on guidelines and finished in tone; A designed repeat pattern developed from a researched historical source, with the source properly named; A hand-printed edition of three consistent prints from a cut block, developed from the Unit 2a motif; A hand-built vessel with a designed surface, referenced to a named historical ceramic tradition; A personal response to a self-chosen artist, presented with the research, experiments and rejected options.
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: “This year was designed to close two gaps that Year 9 leaves.”
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