Art GCSE Options Information

What is the main aim of the course?

Students will follow a skills-based approach. The course allows students to develop knowledge and understanding during the course through a variety of learning experiences and approaches, including engagement with sources. This will allow them to develop the skills to explore, create and communicate their own ideas.

What will you learn?

Students must learn through practical experience and demonstrate knowledge and understanding of sources that inform their creative intentions. Intentions should be realised through purposeful engagement with visual language, visual concepts, media, materials and the application of appropriate techniques and working methods.

Students must develop and apply relevant subject-specific skills in order to use visual language to communicate personal ideas, meanings and responses.

Students must, over time, reflect critically upon their creative journey and its effectiveness in relation to the realisation of personal intentions.

Students will study a variety of drawing, painting, printing and other techniques in response to various artists work within two broader themes of Sealife and Africa. By the end of these studies the students will have a range of skills working with different media in which to focus their own creative response to a title in the externally set assignment. Students will meet the four assessment objectives in a project driven by their research and personal interests.

The exams and non-exam assessment will measure how students have achieved the following assessment objectives.

AO1: Develop ideas through investigations, demonstrating critical understanding of sources.

AO2: Refine work by exploring ideas, selecting and experimenting with appropriate media, materials, techniques and processes.

AO3: Record ideas, observations and insights relevant to intentions as work progresses.

AO4: Present a personal and meaningful response that realises intentions and demonstrates understanding of visual language.

How is the course assessed?

A portfolio that shows coverage of the four assessment objectives. It is a sustained project evidencing the journey from initial engagement to the realisation of intentions. 60% of the GCSE final grade.

Students respond to a starting point from an externally set assignment paper relating to their subject title. 40% of the GCSE final grade.

How does this course connect to the world of work and allow students to reach ambitious destinations?

Students will have demonstrated their skills through the development, refinement, recording, realisation and presentation of their ideas through a portfolio and by responding to an externally set assignment. These are key skills to take into the workplace.

Students can progress from the GCSE Art course to the AQA A level course at the Academy in preparation for moving onto many creative occupations or university courses.

How does this course connect to the world of work and allow students to reach ambitious destinations?

Students will have demonstrated their skills through the development, refinement, recording, realisation and presentation of their ideas through a portfolio and by responding to an externally set assignment. These are key skills to take into the workplace.
Students can progress from the GCSE Art course to the AQA A level course at the W6 Sixth Form at the Academy in preparation for moving onto many creative occupations or university courses. 
 

Who do you need to contact if you have any further questions about this course?

Ms Charlotte Rolfe-Pigg, crolfe-pigg@srwa.woodard.co.uk.