Year 10 & 11 Learning

The curriculum provision at GCSE is three 100-minute lessons every two weeks. Students follow a lively structured GCSE course that involves a range of 2D and 3D work. This will enable them to produce a portfolio of personal and creative responses to set themes. It will build on the skills developed in earlier years. In Year 10 you will undertake a media and technique-based project to allow you to work more independently and gain confidence ready for the main coursework projects.

Our projects are broad and designed to be tackled individually. Over the two years, students will be given help and advice, but they must be prepared to take ownership and responsibility for their own work. Personal research is an important part of Art and our students will be required to develop their own ideas and interests into the project. At New College Leicester we have a strong track record of achieving good results in Art and Design.

Students will follow the OCR syllabus for Art, Craft and Design as an endorsement of Art & Design.

What the course involves

You will complete an Art portfolio of evidence which will focus on specific project briefs. This work will include exploration, research, development of techniques, skills and outcomes. The portfolio must contain:

Evidence of work that charts the progress of a theme from the initial idea to its conclusion
Links with the work of other artists showing that their work has inspired/influenced the project’s development
Increasing practical skills and confidence in the use of a wide range of materials and styles
Experimentation with materials to expand knowledge, understanding and skill
Self-evaluation to focus aims and objectives
A practical exam under controlled conditions in Year 11

Overview	Art, Craft and Design: Combined Titles is defined as a broad-based course promoting learning through various processes, tools, techniques, materials and resources to generate different kinds of evidence of working and artefact(s) product(s)/personal outcome(s). Learners must explore, acquire and develop skills, knowledge and understanding through the application of traditional and or digital techniques and processes specific to two or more chosen specification titles. The emphasis is on an increased breadth of approach commensurate in demand with the other titles. Learners must explore practical and relevant critical and contextual sources such as the work of historical and contemporary practitioners and the different purposes, intentions and functions of art, craft and design as appropriate to their own work. Learners must demonstrate the knowledge, skills and understanding through area(s) of study relevant to two or more chosen specification titles.
Titles & related Areas of Study	Learners are required to work in two or more specification titles from those listed below: Fine Art Graphic Communication Photography Textile Design Three-Dimensional Design Critical and Contextual Studies Learners may choose one area of study and produce work appropriate to two or more specification titles such as Still Life in Fine Art and Photography. Alternatively, learners may choose different area(s) of study such as Typography or Product Design from two or more specialisms and combine them in a complementary way. Techniques Learners undertaking the Art, Craft and Design specification title should explore techniques relevant to the chosen area(s) of study as outlined for each chosen specification title.
Skills	Learners will be expected to demonstrate skills, as defined in the Art and Design Core Content section of this specification, in the context of their chosen areas of art, craft and design. In addition, learners will be required to demonstrate skills relevant to two or more of their chosen specification titles in the following: • develop their ideas through investigations informed by selecting and critically analysing sources • apply an understanding of relevant art, craft and design practices in the creative and cultural industries to their work • refine their art, craft and design ideas as work progresses through recording, researching, selecting, editing and presenting artefact(s)/product(s)/personal outcome(s) • record their ideas, observations, insights and independent judgements, in ways that are appropriate to the Art, Craft and Design title, such as recording through drawing and creating images with mixed media • use appropriate specialist vocabulary through either visual communication or written annotation, or both, appropriate to art, craft and design • use visual language critically as appropriate to their own creative intentions and chosen titles and area(s) of study through effective and safe use of: Media Materials Techniques Processes Technologies • use drawing skills for different needs and purposes, appropriate to the titles and area(s) of study used • realise personal intentions in Art, Craft and Design, through the sustained application of art, craft and design processes.
Knowledge & Understanding	Learners are required to demonstrate the knowledge and understanding listed below through practical application of skills to realise personal intentions relevant to their chosen titles and area(s) of Art, Craft and Design. Learners are required to know and understand how sources inspire the development of their ideas. Reference should be made to the following: the work and approaches of artists, craftspeople or designers from contemporary and/or historical contexts, periods, societies and cultures contemporary and/or historical environments, situations or issues other relevant sources researched by the learner in the chosen specification title and area(s) of study from art, craft and design the ways in which meanings, ideas and intentions can be communicated through visual, sensory and tactile language, using formal elements, including: Colour Line Form Tone Texture • the characteristics, properties and effects of using different media, materials, techniques and processes, and the ways in which they can be used in relation to learners’ own creative intentions and chosen area(s) of study in art, craft and design • the different purposes, intentions and functions of art, craft and design in a variety of contexts and as appropriate to learner’s work.

Term	Topic	Key Content	What will you know by the end of this term
Year10 Autumn	Introduction to GCSE Structure and expectations Coursework introduction (Component 01) Begin initial investigations based on a given theme.	Key areas of developing a project- AO1 - Develop ideas through investigations, showing critical understanding of selected sources. AO2 - Refine work by exploring ideas, selecting and experimenting with appropriate media, materials, techniques and processes. AO3 - Record ideas, observations relevant to intentions as work progresses. AO4 - Present a personal and meaningful response that realises intentions and demonstrates understanding of visual language.	To understand the process of developing a project Use various drawing and designing techniques to record observations in sketchbooks and other media as they develop their designs towards an outcome
Year 10 Spring	Continue Coursework (component 01) looking at a range of appropriate Artists that can inform the independent work	As above	How to explore the techniques used by major contemporary or historic artists, craftspeople and designers, as well as other cultures, so as to inform their creative interpretations
Year 10 Summer	Completion of coursework project personally informed ideas	As above	How to develop and refine ideas through meaningful and purposeful investigations using a range of appropriate media

Term	Topic	Key Content	What you will know at the end of this term
Term		Key areas of developing a project- AO1 - Develop ideas through investigations, showing critical understanding of selected sources. AO2 - Refine work by exploring ideas, selecting and experimenting with appropriate media, materials, techniques and processes. AO3 - Record ideas, observations relevant to intentions as work progresses. AO4 - Present a personal and meaningful response that realises intentions and demonstrates understanding of visual language.	To understand the process of developing a project from being given a set starting point, through initial investigations, to creating a personal and meaningful response
Year11 Autumn	Introduction to the Externally set task (Component 02)	To complete a project following the same assessment criteria as component 01 under time limited constrictions.	To understand the process of developing a project from being given a set starting point, through initial investigations, to creating a personal and meaningful response
Year 11 Spring	Conclude Externally Set task	As above Present work in preparation for moderation	As above