GCSE Art, Craft and Design
The Art, Craft, and Design GCSE allows students to explore creativity across disciplines like Fine Art and Photography. Assessed entirely through coursework, students build a portfolio (60%) and complete an externally set project (40%) with a 10-hour final assessment. This course fosters artistic expression and creative skill development.
The qualification features a wide range of titles including art, craft and design, fine art, graphic communication, textile design, three-dimensional design and photography.
Students will complete these distinctive units of work:
- Creative Techniques Introductory Unit - Here you will learn a vast range of 2D and 3D techniques to use in Art (Year 10)
- Langoustines Brief - Making a product for a new seafood restaurant in Leeds! (Year 10)
- Final Major Project of your choice (Year 11)
- Externally Set Assignment (Year 11)
All the units are marked in the same way using 4 assessment objectives summarised briefly here:
- AO1 Develop ideas through sustained investigations, demonstrating critical understanding of sources.
- AO2 Refine work by exploring ideas, selecting and experimenting with appropriate media, materials, techniques and processes.
- AO3 Record ideas, observations and insights relevant to intentions as work progresses.
- AO4 Present a personal and meaningful response that realises intentions and demonstrates understanding of visual language.
You can support your child in their Art GCSE by showing an interest in their creativity and pieces of art. You can also take them or encourage them to visit galleries and exhibitions, there are lots of excellent galleries local to Leeds and Bradford, and I have listed a few links in the Useful Website section below.
Assessment in Year 11
100% of the GCSE is assessed on coursework, and it is broken down into the following parts:
60% Portfolio.
Your child will complete a series of projects over the course of the entire GCSE, and these will form their portfolio. The projects that are most likely to be included are the Nature Transformed project and the Final Major Project (independently chosen starting point).
40% Externally set assignment.
This is a paper that comes from the exam board and will have seven different starting points for students to choose from. We receive this paper in January of Year 11 and will give to students as soon as we return after Christmas. Students will work on this as a new project for eight school weeks then sit for a 10-hour controlled assessment over 2 days, this year they are on 13th and 14th March. In the controlled assessment time students will produce a final response to their eight-week project.
Useful Websites
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zpcndxs/revision/2
https://www.youtube.com/c/TomQuigleyArt
https://artwithmisswilson.weebly.com/artist-research-websites.html
https://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/leeds-art-gallery/
https://henry-moore.org/henry-moore-institute/
