Art and Design

Assessment

• Year 12: Personal Investigation (60%) Your first year is based on the experience many can hope to have in their first year of university when entering into a design-related degree like architecture. Through a series of workshops, you build your knowledge and understand a variety of skills including model-making, screenprinting, photoshop, fashion skills, graphic design and collaborative tasks. You take these skills forward into your investigations, undertaking a more personal project, improving your work with critical academic reading and writing, and evidencing your learning in work journals, models and portfolio sheets. • Year 13: Externally Assessed Assignment (40%) This project requires you to work in a self-directed manner, with the support of your teachers, to produce a body of work that shows exploration, research, technique and skill. Preparatory studies and supporting work must also be submitted, including research, exploration, analysis and evaluation of working practices, ideas and contexts of related designers. Your project culminates in a 15-hour exam and the form that this final piece takes could be anything from an installation to a piece of jewellery, an architectural scheme, a garment or an advertisement campaign. For each unit, you receive marks under four assessment objectives. • Develop: develop ideas through sustained and focused investigations informed by contextual and other sources, demonstrating analytical and critical understanding. • Experiment: explore and select appropriate resources, media, materials, techniques and processes, reviewing and refining ideas as work develops. • Record: record ideas, observations and insights relevant to intentions, reflecting critically on work and progress. • Present: present a personal and meaningful response that realises intentions and where appropriate, makes connections between visual and other elements.