This course gives students opportunities to develop personal responses to ideas, observations, experiences, environments and cultures in practical, critical and contextual forms. The course aims to: • Develop intellectual, imaginative, creative and intuitive powers • Develop investigative, analytical, experimental, technical and expressive skills, aesthetic understanding and critical judgements • Develop knowledge and understanding of the role and achievements of artists, craftspeople and designers • Develop an understanding of the relationship between and the connections across the disciplines of art, craft and design. The department encourages students to explore topics with a wide range of media. Students will be given the opportunity to work in both 2D and 3D. The course provides opportunities to draw and paint, to work with modelling materials such as plaster and scrap materials, to produce wire sculptures, and to utilise printmaking facilities, textiles, art and ceramics. The subject is practically based, however students are expected to record ideas and observations in both visual and written form. During the course students will have the opportunity to attend a life drawing session after school to develop their observational and drawing skills. Work produced will be entered into their portfolio of work. Art students will also participate in trips to galleries and exhibitions to support their project research.
GCSE Art grade 5 or above or Merit or above at BTEC Art.
Unit One: Personal Investigation (60%) Unit Two: Externally set assignment (40%) in which students sit a fifteen-hour examination to produce a personal response Work is marked by the class teachers and a sample is moderated by AQA during the summer term of Year Thirteen.
About Education Provider
| Region | South East |
| Local Authority | West Berkshire |
| Ofsted Rating | Outstanding |
| Gender Type | Mixed |
| Address | Manor Crescent, Compton, Newbury, RG20 6AD |
This course gives students opportunities to develop personal responses to ideas, observations, experiences, environments and cultures in practical, critical and contextual forms. The course aims to: • Develop intellectual, imaginative, creative and intuitive powers • Develop investigative, analytical, experimental, technical and expressive skills, aesthetic understanding and critical judgements • Develop knowledge and understanding of the role and achievements of artists, craftspeople and designers • Develop an understanding of the relationship between and the connections across the disciplines of art, craft and design. The department encourages students to explore topics with a wide range of media. Students will be given the opportunity to work in both 2D and 3D. The course provides opportunities to draw and paint, to work with modelling materials such as plaster and scrap materials, to produce wire sculptures, and to utilise printmaking facilities, textiles, art and ceramics. The subject is practically based, however students are expected to record ideas and observations in both visual and written form. During the course students will have the opportunity to attend a life drawing session after school to develop their observational and drawing skills. Work produced will be entered into their portfolio of work. Art students will also participate in trips to galleries and exhibitions to support their project research.
GCSE Art grade 5 or above or Merit or above at BTEC Art.
Unit One: Personal Investigation (60%) Unit Two: Externally set assignment (40%) in which students sit a fifteen-hour examination to produce a personal response Work is marked by the class teachers and a sample is moderated by AQA during the summer term of Year Thirteen.
