GCSE ART & DESIGN

What will students learn?

Students will develop an appreciation of the creative process through practical responses, using a variety of two-dimensional and three-dimensional media, materials, techniques and processes. Students will explore critically how artists, craftspeople and designers from diverse cultures, times and societies have arrived at solutions and communicate meaning through formal elements. Students should use this knowledge to develop new ideas, recording observations and creating outcomes which fully realise their personal intentions. Students will base their work around the four main learning objectives, Contextual Studies, development and experimenting, recording observations and final outcomes.

Skills and understanding

Exam Board Edexcel Syllabus code 1FA0

Students will develop a practical knowledge and understand of:

• The use of formal elements and visually communicate through a variety of approaches.

• The use of observational skills to record from sources and communicate ideas.

• Characteristics of media and materials such as wet and dry, malleable and digital.

• Properties of colour and light such as hue, tint, saturation and tone.

• The effects and creative potential of combining and manipulating different two-dimensional and three-dimensional materials and media.

• The use of digital and/or non-digital applications.

Entry requirements

Working at’ the expected skills levels by the end of Year 9. Attitude to learning must be 2 or above. Click here to see more course specifications.