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Art & Design

  • Optional
  • AQA

The Art and Design course involves a range of work, comprising Fine Art and Graphic Design work, and offers opportunities for photography, film-making and animation, as well as the traditional areas of drawing, painting and work in mixed-media.

The Art and Design course involves a range of work, comprising Fine Art and Graphic Design work, and offers opportunities for photography, film-making and animation, as well as the traditional areas of drawing, painting and work in mixed-media.

This subject offers you the opportunity to

Express creativity in a practical way, to work in a stimulating environment and to gain a wide range of universally useful skills.

Develop thinking, planning and analysing skills alongside the traditional skills associated with Art.

Course Content and Assessment

On this course, you'll learn working processes and disciplines adopted in this subject and to lay firm foundations for work in other curriculum areas.

Digital Media

There is a strong emphasis on the use of digital media and even if you may not be the most confident in terms of observation drawing you will be able to find other ways in which to demonstrate your skills. You will be encouraged to use both physical and digital sketchbooks in a creative, inventive way and these will form the backbone of your activity in the subject. This manner of working is also a preparation for the way students will eventually be taught at A Level. Some pupils who have demonstrated particular aptitude for Graphic Design may choose to specialise in this area and will be entered for Graphic Communication.

Fine Art & Graphic Design

In Year 10 those who have opted for the general Art and Design course will study Fine Art and Graphic Design, with a double lesson devoted to each, producing one major project outcome from each area. If you have opted for Graphic Communication you will work in this area for both double lessons. Projects in Year 10 usually begin with a core skills module to develop technique before project work is developed.

Assessment

The first project you do in Year 11 will be treated as your Mock Examination and eventually, together with the work done in Year 10, form part of your coursework (awarded 60% of the overall mark). The second will be the actual examination project (awarded the remaining 40%).

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Drama

  • Optional
  • OCR

Music

  • Optional
  • Edexcel

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