KS3 Art · Year 9 · ages 13–14
Six half-term units, in the order we teach them: structures and still life; portraiture and identity; Surrealism and the subconscious; Pop Art and printmaking; sculpture from natural forms; and a GCSE taster project 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 9 Art & Design scheme of work.
Six half-termly units. Each builds something the next one assumes, ending with an independent personal response that rehearses how a 14–16 course actually works.
Year 9 means ages 13–14, or S2–S3 in Scotland.
Unit 1a · Autumn 1 · approx. 7 weeks · September – October
How can I use tone and structure to make something ordinary look extraordinary?
Unit 1b · Autumn 2 · approx. 7 weeks · November – December
How can I show who someone is, not just what they look like?
Unit 2a · Spring 1 · approx. 6 weeks · January – February
Where do ideas come from, and how can I generate images I couldn’t have planned?
Unit 2b · Spring 2 · approx. 6 weeks · February – April
How can repetition and process change the meaning of an everyday object?
Unit 3a · Summer 1 · approx. 6 weeks · April – May
How does material choice change what a form can say?
Unit 3b · Summer 2 · approx. 6 weeks · June – July
If I designed my own art project, what would I make — and is this something I want to keep doing?
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…
The artists across all six units span 1839 to the present. The programme of study asks for movements from ancient times up to the present day, so this year does not meet that requirement on its own — it is met across key stage 3 only if Years 7 and 8 carry the earlier periods. If they do not, the cheapest fix is one taught comparison in Unit 1a between a classical or non-Western historical still life and Morandi, which costs a single lesson and closes the gap honestly.
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 9 Art scheme of work page.
The statutory programme of study for key stage 3 art and design (DfE, 2013)·38 pages, 8 sections·For heads of art, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it
KS3 Art & Design · Year 9 · six A4 sheets£3.99
Full description on the Year 9 Art knowledge organisers page.
Written to Empower Educators Year 9 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: Structures & Still Life, Portraiture & Identity, Surrealism & the Subconscious, Pop Art & Printmaking, 3D & Sculpture: Natural Forms and GCSE / IGCSE Taster — Personal Response.
A final A3 tonal still life composition of a personal object arrangement, developed through sketchbook experimentation and one artist-response study; A final expressive mixed-media self-portrait, developed through grid, mirror-study and symbolic-collage experimentation; A final surreal composition in paint or mixed media, developed through automatic drawing, exquisite corpse and scale-distortion experimentation; A final printed edition (3–4 prints) of a personal-object design, developed through cutting practice and colour/registration trials; A final 3D piece in clay, plaster or mixed natural materials, developed through a wire maquette and photographic documentation of an outdoor response; A mini project folder (mind-map/mood-board, one artist-research page, one final personal-response piece) applying the whole year’s skills independently, used as an Options-evening exemplar.
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: “The artists across all six units span 1839 to the present.”
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