GCSE Art, Craft and Design

You will build a portfolio of work over the first year, starting with a series of workshops to introduce you to many different media, processes and techniques.

You will then continue the extended project choosing your own artists, media, technique and process developing independent skills, and building up your personal portfolio with sketchbooks and completed pieces of artwork.

Gallery visits take place during the first (gallery visit) and fourth (The Henry Moore Foundation) terms to inform and develop the projects.

In this unit, you will be given a choice of starting points by the examination board, which is open to broad personal interpretation.

You will be taken on a gallery trip to explore and investigate artists to be used within the body of the “examination preparation” work which will involve investigating, researching and analysing work from artists, designers and other areas of interest. You will then create visual ideas and explore and develop them in different media.

You will be working towards a resolved idea for a final piece of artwork, which you will complete over two days in a formal examination.

Both the preparation work and the final piece contribute marks towards this component.

A gallery visit to London takes place at the start of this project.

Assessment:
Coursework Unit 1 60%
Examination Unit 2 40%

All work is internally assessed and externally moderated.