Art and Design
Course summary
In A Level, students have the opportunity to study Art and Design further. In Art and Design, they start the year with a variety of mini projects designed to further refine their skills. They explore; portraiture, sculpture, collage, printmaking and illustration. After this, students start their Personal Investigation which is 60% of their final grade. They continue this until February of Year 13 where they start their exam project based on a brief provided by the exam board. They will then sit a 15 hour exam to create a final piece. This is worth 40% of the A Level.
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Assessment
Portfolio (60%) · Students will undertake a series of workshops to develop, build on and refine their current skill set as well as being introduced to new materials and techniques. Year 12 begins with a series of mini projects. The projects are based around portraiture, painting, sculpture, collage, mixed media and printing. Students will explore threshold concepts adjacently to this to discover who they are as individual Artists. Students will then progress onto creating their own Personal Investigation further on in the year which will run through until January of Year 13. Externally Set Assignment (40%) · Externally set assignment. Students will have a variety of themes to choose from and will create a developed self-directed project based on one of those themes. · Students will sit a 15 hour exam over three days to create their final piece for their externally set assignment.
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