Art, Design and Technology

Art and Design Technology will engage, inspire and challenge students through exploring their ideas and recording their own creativity.

Art, Design and Technology Curriculum Intent

The curriculum has been designed to expose students to a range of learning experiences which encourages students to develop both skills and creativity with the aim to prepare learners for future learning and employment.

The curriculum is designed to expose students to different materials and techniques within all aspects of art and design technology. Students are also able to use the transferable skills from all curriculum areas throughout the creative design process – including mathematics and English.

Key Stage 3 incorporates all aspects of art, craft and design including drawing skills, cultural investigations, portraiture, art movements, food technology, CAD CAM, textiles, graphics and woodwork. This is achieved through a combination of practical and theory-based lessons, enabling pupils to fully realise the skills, techniques and processes essential for Key Stage 4.  Food and nutrition are studied as a unit to allow all students to learn and develop valuable life skills. 

The areas we focus on within our curriculum to lead on to specialist courses on offer at Key Stage 4 - pupils can select from AQA GCSE Design and Technology, Eduqas Hospitality and Catering and Art and Design with specialist pathways of Textiles, Photography or Fine Art. 

Design and Technology:
Designing.  Understanding contexts, user needs, purposes, generating, developing, modelling and communicating ideas.
Making.  Planning, practical skills and techniques.
Evaluating.  Own ideas, products we design, existing products, key events and individuals.
Technical Knowledge.  Making products work for a particular function.
Cooking and Nutrition.  Where food comes from, food preparation, cooking and nutrition

Art:
Generating Ideas.  Skills of designing and generating ideas.
Making.  Skills of making, art, craft and design.
Evaluating.  Skills of judgement and evaluation.
Knowledge.  Knowledge of process and context.

Links

More details of our curriculum plan for Art, Design and Technology can be found by clicking on the link below.