Art & Design
EXAM BOARD: WJEC
HEAD OF ART: Mrs Karran
STAFF: Miss Fulton, Mrs Taylor-Ward, Miss Killen
The WJEC GCSE in Art and Design provides students with engaging, challenging and meaningful artistic learning experiences. The structure of the course supports the development of creative ideas. As well as broadening student experience, the course develops imagination and technical skills, fosters creativity and promotes personal and social development. The focus of the specification is to nurture an enthusiasm for art, craft and design, and encourage students to experiment with a wide range of media.
This specification encourages students to:
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Actively engage in the creative process of art, craft and design in order to develop as effective and independent learners, and as critical and reflective thinkers with enquiring minds.
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Develop creative, imaginative and intuitive capabilities when exploring and making images, artefacts and products.
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Become confident in taking risks and learn from experience when exploring and experimenting with ideas, processes, media, materials and techniques.
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Develop critical understanding through investigative, analytical, experimental, practical, technical and expressive skills.
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Develop and refine ideas and proposals, personal outcomes or solutions with increasing independence.
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Acquire and develop technical skills through working with a broad range of media, materials, techniques, processes and technologies with purpose and intent.
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Develop knowledge and understanding of art, craft and design in historical and contemporary contexts, societies and cultures.
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Develop an awareness of the purposes, intentions and functions of art, craft and design in a variety of contexts and as appropriate to students’ own work.
UNIT 1: PORTFOLIO
60%
This unit comprises a major practical portfolio and outcomes will be based on internally set themes and subject matter developed from personal and/or given starting points. Work undertaken within the unit will be internally set, internally assessed and externally moderated. Work will be selected, evaluated and presented for assessment by the student. Evidence is required of how the student has met each of the assessment objectives.
UNIT 2: EXTERNALLY SET ASSIGNMENT
40%
Materials to be released to students no earlier than 2nd January (in the calendar year in which the assessment is to be taken) and will consist of assignments based on themes, visual stimuli and written briefs, which are to be presented to the student at the start of the preparatory study period. One of the assignments is selected by the student and used as a starting point. The resolution of the students’ ideas from the preparatory work must be completed during the designated 10 hour exam.