ART AND DESIGN
GCSE
Awarding Body: AQA
Course Code: 8202
QAN: 601/8088/2
OVERVIEW OF THE COURSE
Our GCSE ART and DESIGN course will allow students to develop knowledge and understanding through a variety of learning experiences and approaches, including engagement with sources. This will allow students to develop the skills to explore, create and communicate their own ideas. Students will demonstrate these skills through the development, refinement, recording, realisation and presentation of their ideas through a (Component 1) and by responding to an externally set assignment (Component 2).
CONTENT AND ASSESSMENT
Portfolio (Component 1) Coursework module (worth 60% of the final grade).
Each student will create and present a portfolio representative of their course of study. The portfolio will include a sustained project developed in response to a subject, theme, task or brief evidencing the journey from initial engagement with an idea(s) to the realisation of intentions. This will give students the opportunity to demonstrate, through an extended creative response, their ability to draw together different areas of knowledge, skills and/or understanding from across their course of study.
Students will also get an opportunity to create a selection of further work resulting from activities such as trials and experiments; skills-based workshops; mini projects; responses to galleries and museum visits; independent study and evidence of the student’s specific role in any group work undertaken.
Students’ work is assessed over four assessment points.
Externally set assignment (Component 2) Preparatory period followed by 10 hour exam (worth 40% of the final grade)
Students respond to a starting point provided by the exam board AQA. This response provides evidence of the student’s ability to work independently within specified time constraints, realise intentions that are personal and meaningful and explicitly address the requirements of all four assessment objectives. Students will sit the 10 hour exam over two days.