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GCSE Art, Craft and Design
A broad-based art course that allows students opportunities to produce work in a variety of different art disciplines.
With a backbone that develops traditional drawing and painting skills, students also work in a range of different creative areas that can include: sculptural form, ceramics, textile progresses, photography, printmaking and graphics. As the course progresses, students can decide which direction and creative media they would like to utilise in their own project development.
This course has been designed to encourage creative innovation and good communication.
We realise that the creative thinkers, those people who have the ability to come up with something new, the problem solvers, are increasingly recognised by industries and employers as the “go to’’ people to employ.
We help our students to learn how to look at something in a new way. Most importantly of all, you will be encouraged to express your ideas in a supportive and fun teaching environment.
Course Outline:
This course contains 2 components as listed below:
1. Unit 1 Portfolio of work (60% of the course)
2. Unit 2 Examination Unit (40% of the course)
• Term5–Examination Project
Examination Board:
AQA
Head of Department
Mr A J Grantham-Smith
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Terms1&2– Broadening of Creative Experience
Terms3&4– Student- led Personal Investigation
“When it came for me to choose my GCSEs, I knew I wanted to continue Art, but I didn’t know where I wanted to specialise. Art, Craft & Design is a wonderful course filled with a variety of different medias. I especially love the topic we’re doing at the moment; ‘The British Countryside’. You study artists and create you own pieces inspired by artists. It’s a lovely break away from academics and I look forward to my Art, Craft and Design lesson each week.”
Flo Black
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