Art and Design (Fine Art)

Assessment

For A Level the Art department offers a Fine Art course, which gives the student time to explore and develop new skills and techniques in a broad range of 2D, 3D and digital media. Sketchbooks are a very important requirement to provide evidence of research sources, thought processes, experimentation, composition, design and art making. The students will work on a Personal Investigation throughout the two-year course. The Personal Investigation portfolio consists of a series of practical artworks the pupil will produce in a variety of media accompanied by a written essay called a personal study of a minimum of 1,000 up to 3,000 words; to support the practical work they create. In the spring term the exam board set an externally set assignment.