Years 10 and 11 GCSE Art Curriculum Plan

The Department

AIMS
Through the teaching of Art at King Edward VII and Queen Mary School we aim to stimulate interest in and awareness of the expressive and creative potential of art, craft and design: to enable pupils to become visually literate: to use and understand art as a form of tactile communication and to have confidence and competence in evaluating visual images and artefacts.

OBJECTIVES
Pupils will be given opportunities to:

• Record responses, including observations of the natural and made environment.
• Gather resources and materials, using them to stimulate and develop ideas.
• Explore and use two and three dimensional media, working on a variety of scales.
• Review and modify their work as it progresses.
• Develop understanding of the work of artists, crafts people and designers, applying knowledge to their own work.
• Respond to and evaluate art, craft and design, including their own and others' work.
• Contribute to the school ethos through shared events such as drama productions, displays of work and links with other schools and countries.

GCSE Specification

The course is as set out in the AQA specification Art and Design Full Course, Unendorsed 3201.  

Coursework
We aim to produce three units of coursework that can be assessed at the end of the course. A unit can specialise in one area of study but usually a unit will enhance more than one area of study from the following:

• Drawing and painting.
  Design
  Ceramics
  Textiles
• Photography

The students are encouraged to develop their work in depth to cover all assessment objectives thoroughly and to the best of their best ability. Sketch/work books are an important part of the course work. It is in these that the assessment objectives are clearly addressed and show continuity with a personal response. The rest of the work is displayed on the walls or free standing display boards and tables.

The library and the Internet are used a lot for research into artists and craftspeople and students are encouraged to write their own words and are penalised for just downloading and printing out secondary source material.

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