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Curriculum

Art and design

Curriculum intent, implementation, and impact

About the subject

Art and Design enables students to explore ideas, materials and personal responses while developing practical skill, perseverance and creative confidence. The subject provides a valuable means of expression alongside an accredited pathway.

About the Curriculum intent, implementation, and impact

Intent

Develop knowledge of artists, designers, movements and visual culture.
Experiment confidently with materials, techniques and processes.
Record, refine and present ideas through sketchbooks and portfolio work.
Develop personal responses to themes and briefs.
Prepare students for the academy’s current Art and Design qualification.

Implementation

Learning is planned from students’ assessed starting points and reviewed as they make progress.
Lessons follow Kickstart’s lesson pathway: Learning Intention, Remember, Learn, Practise and Review.
Teachers use adaptive teaching, modelling, scaffolding, retrieval and regular checking for understanding.
Literacy, vocabulary and communication are taught explicitly within the subject.
Assessment information is used to address gaps, adjust teaching and make qualification-entry decisions.
Students build portfolios through research, experimentation, refinement and sustained final outcomes.

Impact

Students build knowledge and skills from their individual starting points.
Work, assessment evidence and student voice demonstrate increasing confidence and independence.
Students are prepared appropriately for accredited assessment and their next stage of education, employment or training.
Progress is considered alongside engagement, attendance, resilience and readiness to learn.

Enrichment

Opportunities may include gallery visits, artist studies, exhibitions, competitions, photography, community projects and work with visiting practitioners.

Careers

Careers learning in this subject contributes to Kickstart’s wider careers programme and the Gatsby Benchmarks. Through our work with Future Focus, students receive individual support to explore suitable pathways, make applications and prepare for a positive post-16 transition. Art and Design supports progression into graphic design, illustration, photography, fashion, tattooing, interiors, animation, architecture, marketing and other creative industries.