Programme of study: art and design

Key Stage 3

Knowledge, skills and understanding

Teaching should ensure that investigating and making includes exploring and developing ideas and evaluating and developing work. Knowledge and understanding should inform the process.

Exploring and developing ideas

1 Pupils should be taught to:

a record and analyse first-hand observations, to select from experience and imagination and to explore ideas for different purposes and audiences

b discuss and question critically, and select from a range of visual and other information [for example, exhibitions, interviews with practitioners, CD-ROMs] to help them develop ideas for independent work

c organise and present this information in different ways, including using a sketchbook.

Investigating and making art, craft and design

2 Pupils should be taught to:

a investigate, combine and manipulate materials and images, taking account of purpose and audience

b apply and extend their experience of a range of materials and processes, including drawing, refining their controls of tools and techniques

c experiment with and select methods and approaches, synthesise observations, ideas and feelings, and design and make images and artefacts.

Evaluating and developing work

3 Pupils should be taught to:

a analyse and evaluate their own and others' work, express opinions and make reasoned judgements

b adapt and refine their work and plan and develop this further, in the light of their own and others' evaluations

Knowledge and understanding

4 Pupils should be taught about:

a the visual and tactile qualities of materials and processes and how these can be manipulated and matched to ideas, purposes and audiences

b codes and conventions and how these are used to represent ideas, beliefs, and values in works of art, craft and design

c continuity and change in the purposes and audiences of artists, craftspeople and designers from Western Europe and the wider world.

Breadth of study

5 During the key stage, pupils should be taught the knowledge, skills and understanding through:

a exploring a range of starting points from practical work including themselves, their experiences and natural and made objects and environments

b working on their own, and collaborating with others, on projects in two and three dimensions and on different scales

c using a range of materials and processes, including ICT [for example painting, collage, print-making, digital media, textiles, sculpture]

d investigating art, craft and design in the locality, in a variety of genres, styles and traditions, and from a range of historical, social and cultural contexts [for example, in original and reproduction form, during visits to museums, galleries and sites, on the internet].