A Level ART AND DESIGN FINE ART OCR

Induction period - Workshop-based.

Students generate and develop ideas by completing small, discrete projects.

Students are given opportunities to develop their knowledge, understanding and skills, to include:

• generating and developing ideas
• researching primary and contextual sources
• recording practical and written observations
• exploring materials, processes, technologies, and techniques

Year 12 starts with a project that is skill-based. This starts in September and is taught through to February. The project is Natural forms and students create a portfolio that is teacher led to aid them in an N.E.A. after the spring half-term.

Students may wish to study any art form from the Spring half-term, and this is supported through to the end of the Autumn term in year 13.

Projects include portraiture, still life, human figure, natural forms, architecture, or narratives. 

Assessment:

Throughout the year, we conduct assessments each term to ensure that key skills are fully understood. This allows students to build on their knowledge and achieve more creative outcomes.

Homework:

All homework is used to aid the content of the course and support the learner's journey throughout the A LEVEL art and design process.

A Level ART AND DESIGN FINE ART OCR

 Component 1: Personal Investigation (60% of the qualification) – this includes a written study of at least 1000 words

Component 2: Externally Set Assignment (40% of the qualification; this latter component runs from 1 February to early May in Year 13)

Key Skills:

Students will develop the following key skills:

• Develop intellectual, imaginative, creative and intuitive powers.
• Develop investigative, analytical, experimental, technical and expressive skills, aesthetic understanding and critical judgement.
• Develop knowledge and understanding of the role and achievements of artists, craftspeople and designers in the past and in contemporary society.
• Develop an understanding of the relationship between, and the connections across the disciplines of art, craft and design.

Assessment:

Throughout the year, we conduct assessments each term to ensure that key skills are fully understood. This allows pupils to build on their knowledge and achieve more creative outcomes.

Homework:

All homework is used to aid the content of the course and support the learners' journey throughout the A LEVEL art and design process.