Course leaders; Miss Thomas (Art, Craft and Design and Textile Design) hthomas@tgschool.net, Mrs Raleigh (Photography) fraleigh@tgschool.net & Mr Clark, eclark@tgschool.net, Mr Few (3D Design) dfew@tgschool.net, Mrs Spinks (Graphic Communication) cspinks@tgschool.net
Examination Board: AQA
Examinations
Students start their exam journey at the beginning of the Spring term in year 11 when they start their Externally Set Assignment (ESA). The examination board AQA releases the ESA paper in January which comprises a number of given themes. Students then have approximately 12 weeks to investigate, develop and refine their ideas in their sketchbooks in response to one of these themes. After the preparatory period of investigation, students will undertake 10 hours of unaided sustained focus over 2 days under exam conditions when they will realise their intentions as a final outcome(s). They will be unable to amend or add to their preparatory work once the 10 hours has commenced.
The ESA equates to 40% of the total GCSE grade. The other 60% is from the personal portfolio (PP) projects produced in years 10 and 11.
It is worth noting that all students are now required to include evidence of drawing (in any media) in all courses, including Photography: these drawings can take the form of story board designs, small studies based on contextual research or drawings onto photographic images or digital drawings.
Assessments
All examination work is assessed internally by Mr Clark and his team, and is then moderated by AQA. Guidance and feedback is given continuously in the run up to the examination. Assessment criteria can be found in the front of all sketchbooks.
Textile Design:
All students will have a basic project structure and additional information worksheets to follow throughout the project. In addition to this they have the assessment criteria and a checklist with personalised feedback in the front of their sketchbook. Deadline dates are also recorded here and their teacher will sign off each section when the work is completed to the required standard.
Lunchtimes and after school is available for extra support as and when required, also additional sessions are available during the Easter holidays.
Photography:
All projects, including the ESA have a detailed project checklist which the students can use to structure their project and monitor their progress. As with the Art, Craft and Design course, assessment information and other guidance will be found in the student’s sketchbooks.
Parents can monitor the progress made on the feedback sheets in their child’s sketchbook and check deadline dates and missing/ incomplete work.
3D Design:
Graphic Communication:
Students have the assessment criteria and a checklist in their folders with bespoke feedback given to them regularly within their digital portfolio’s. Interim deadlines are recorded in their folders and the teacher will give feedback regarding each of the assessment objectives and acknowledgement given when work is completed to a required standard.
Additional Support being provided by school
After school sessions are available as and when needed. This will initially be offered and should students start to fall behind and fail to catch up at home we may ask them to attend catch up.
To ensure there is evidence of their creative journey, multiple resources such as support slides/hand-outs/scans etc for mini projects are regularly uploaded to Google classroom to support student’s progress.
How parents and carers can best support their child
Monitoring the progress of students through the coursework and examination components by reviewing the checklists and guidance booklets and how far each of them have progressed against each task is extremely valuable. The Art team are always happy to answer questions about any students progress and welcome active engagement with their work. Please feel free to contact the team by email or phone for additional information about specific support.
Websites
All students are provided with project checklists and guidance booklets to aid them in their progress against each stage of the project.
Students can research into new techniques via the internet and YouTube to watch useful tutorials.
Decide Commit Succeed
Fine Art
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Revision Activity |
Skill Developed |
Useful learning Link |
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Visual Arts Structure strip |
Signpost your thought process |
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1U8e4L5jr1vIX3kFLdoSTEtPLKd1npeGvM1IpYd-HUfY/edit# |
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Yr11 Component 2 Exam project |
The Spring Classroom |
zp25rho Enter the code to access the google classroom |
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Yr11 Coursework checklist |
Refine Experiments |
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Techniques that can be applied for your exam paper |
Mark making Techniques Monoprinting Technique |
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xOA3rgqo7nnhL6wHDLXr2zKvSgzmzz66YjIh6voCK1c/edit#slide=id.p1 |
3D Design
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Revision Activity |
Skill Developed |
Useful learning Link |
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Keywords Writing frames |
Signpost your thought process |
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Coursework checklist |
Refine experiments |
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l_TyMXSzWoKOnm3hWSYuAK_6jouiPLm9tSGV84BdW-8/edit Follow staff feedback and instructions; comments or post-its in the front of book to help focus you on the most relevant AO; after school support sessions are available most days |
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Annotation and Evaluation Scaffolding |
Producing clear notes |
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rRZpC6CHrMjHjFgXGtjSGF7o3I5eRh_SNc8w6SP8zNA/edit#slide=id.p |
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Yr11 Component 2 Exam project |
The Spring Classroom |
4chjko2 |
Textiles
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Revision Activity |
Skill Developed |
Useful learning Link |
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Textiles Year 11 Coursework |
Checklist |
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Yr11 Component 2 Exam project |
The Spring Classroom |
Njewle Code to enter the classroom |
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Analysing an artists work |
Gaining an insight into an artist work |
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Continuing tasks with sketchbooks |
Working to a deadline |
Follow staff feedback and instructions; comments or post-its in the front of book help focus you on the most relevant AO; after school support sessions are available Wednesday and Friday. |
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Fabrics |
Identify A range of different types of fabrics |
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ei3efQFxN600texUtT56e2jHmgaTM-kAcfLctJnIyd8/edit#slide=id.p2 |
Photography
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Revision Activity |
Skill Developed |
Useful learning Link |
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Keywords How to annotate edits |
Signpost your thought process |
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Analysing a photographer and photographs |
Understanding the artist’s concept |
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Darkroom techniques |
How to create photograms |
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Yr11 Component 2 Exam project |
Spring tasks On Google classroom |
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