- Still Life – Look Think Draw (line)
- Still Life – Look Think Draw (Tone)
- Colour Theory
- Abstract Painting
- Mixed Media Illustration
Creativity
Art
- Aboriginal Art – Printing
- African Textiles – Printing
- Chinese Painting
- African Masks (3D)
- Animation (3D)
- Hartlepool Past and Present (3D)
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- Extended Project based on Portraits.
Students will work on a range of drawings of faces and features, study other artists’ portrait work, and develop their own work culminating in a clay sculpture
- Start of Extended Project for Unit 1
- Drawing around a Theme (Natural and Man Made Forms / Me and My World)
- Experimenting with a range of processes and techniques including digital and photography
- Studying the Work of Other Artists
- Clay Hand Building Techniques
- Exam Preparation for end of Y10
- Final 3D Piece
- Forecast Exam Preparation begins September.
- Students will be working around a personal theme and will produce a range of work in sketchbooks around this theme using a wide range of materials and media relevant to their own work. This will culminate into a Final Piece of Artwork produced during a forecast exam in November, using their chosen media.
- November – December Unit 1- completion of Extended Project
- January Preparation for Unit 2 begins (“Final Exam”)
- Students will be working around a personal theme developed from the examination paper. They will produce a range of work in sketchbooks around this theme using a wide range of materials and media relevant to their own work.
- This will culminate into a Final Piece of Artwork produced during a practical exam in March, using their chosen media.
Music
- The Elements of Music
- Rhythm & Pitch
- Orchestra
- Carnival of the Animals
- African Music
- Stomp
- Blues
- 4 Chords
- Chinese Music
- Space Music
- Music for Advertising
- Film Music Motif
- Film Music Keyboard Skills
- Reggae
- Song Writing Riffs
- Battle of the Bands
- Introduction to GCSE Music
- Set Works – Brandenburg and Killer Queen
- Set Works – Star Wars and Samba El Preludio Ensemble Performance
- Set Study – Pathetique Sonata
- Introduction to Free Composition and Ensemble Performance
- Set Study – Defying Gravity
- Exam Prep
- Free Composition and Solo Performance
- Revisions of Set Works
- Solo Performance Forecast Exam
- Composition to a Brief
- Ensemble Performance
Drama
- Introduction to Drama Techniques
- Storytelling
- Reviewing Live Theatre
- Studying a Playscript – Noughts & Crosses
- Devising Theatre – 7 Deadly Sins
- Reviewing Live theatre
- Studying a Play Script – Blood Brothers
- Devising Theatre – 911
- Responding to a Stimulus and Creating a Portfolio
- Performing From a Text – Warhorse Scenes
- Live Theatre Review – Billy Elliot
- Comedy Scripts
- Studying Two Practitioners – Brecht and Stanislavski
- Devising Theatre C1
- Performing From a Text C2
- Studying the Set Text – Noughts & Crosses (Pilot Theatre)
- Live Theatre Review
- Interpreting Theatre (preparation for the written exam) C3
- C1 Devising Theatre – Practical, Portfolio and Evaluation Internal Assessment by Christmas
- C2 Performing From a Text – Spring External Exam
- C3 Interpreting Theatre – Written Exam in May
GCSE Photography
- Favourite Things
- Portrait
- Movement
- Sense of Place
- Weird and Wonderful
- Forecast Exam Preparation begins September. Students will be working around a personal theme. They will produce a range of work reinforcing exam process.
- Further development of Photoshop skills.
- Further development of Sketchbook Skills
- Forecast Exam in November
- November – December coursework completion.
- January Preparation for Unit 2 begins (“Final Exam”)
- Students will be working around a personal theme developed from the examination paper. They will produce a project of work around this theme with a Practical Exam in March.
BTEC Music
- Introduction to the Course:
- Analysing and Appraising Music
- Performing, Creating and Producing
- Component 1 – Music Genres
- Internal Assessment from a brief created by Pearson – January-March 30% of the course
- Preparation for C3:
- Creating, Performing and Producing Music According to a Brief
- C2 – Skills Development Responding to a Brief – Internal Assessment September to November (30% of the course)
- C3 – External Assessment Examination from a Brief – Create and Perform OR Create and Produce a Remix of a Song in a Different Genre (40% of the exam)
Please contact Mrs Sharon Pinchen to find out more information on the Creativity curriculum: spinchen@hightunstall.hartlepool.sch.uk.