Personal Investigation: Creative Challenge
Students experiment with independently chosen Art media and techniques to develop a personal response to initial artist research based on their chosen theme; students initially take photographs to inform their ideas, create compositional designs and produce a focused and sustained piece of work making connections with a chosen artists work. Assessments are based on the quality of their personal response and the connections conveyed within the piece.
Personal Investigation: Observational Drawing
Students develop and enhance their observational drawing skills using techniques that will challenge and test their understanding of drawing, improve accuracy and independence; develop their skills in tone, line, texture and form; whilst producing a series of drawings, based on students chosen themes, that will become a starting point for informing their personal investigation. Assessments are based on the development and refinement of drawing pages in the students’ portfolios and their independent application of the key skills taught.
Personal Investigation: Contextual Research
Students choose and research a series of artists’ work or Art movements that inspire them and challenge their ideas; they learn how to independently critically analyse and evaluate works of art, develop and justify their opinions, and work in this style to inspire their own creative ideas. Assessments are based on the development and refinement of artist research pages presented in students’ portfolios with a focus on their written research and analytical abilities alongside practical skills and their application of the key skills taught, with final assessments representing the accumulative development of students’ portfolios.
Personal Investigation: Experimentation and Design
Students take part in a series of workshops (designed considering student requirements based on previous experience), learning new techniques and experimenting with media relevant to personal projects, such as oil painting or digital media; students use this experience to develop their own ideas, designs and compositions whilst demonstrating an understanding of the context of their own ideas and the research that has informed them. Assessments will be based on the experimentation and design work presented in students’ portfolios with a focus on the key skills taught and the quality of connections made with their research, with final assessments representing the accumulative development of students’ portfolios.
Personal Investigation: Personal Response
Students develop a personal and meaningful outcome for their portfolios, consolidating the projects learning with the creation of a final piece that realises their intentions, demonstrates understanding of visual language and the application of formal elements. Students will be assessed on the quality of their final piece and their application of the key skills taught, with final assessments representing the accumulative development of students’ portfolios.
Personal Investigation: Contextual Research
Students explore the context of their chosen themes, carrying out research into their chosen foci considering, where appropriate, debate, scientific, historical, cultural & social investigation, consolidating intended meanings for own artwork and, where appropriate collating facts, figures, quotes, experiences etc, in order to inform ideas. Assessments are based on the quality and presentation of their research and their independent application of the key skills taught; with final assessments representing the accumulative development of students’ portfolios.
Personal Investigation: Experimentation and Design
Students will be challenged to use and apply media in unusual ways, using mark making techniques; combining, removing and layering media in order to create original outcomes that consider emotion, mood and message; students use this experience to develop their own ideas, designs and compositions whilst demonstrating an understanding of the context of their own ideas and the research that has informed them. Assessments will be based on the experimentation and design work presented in students’ portfolios with a focus on the key skills taught and the quality of connections made with their research, with final assessments representing the accumulative development of students’ portfolios.
Personal Investigation: Personal Response
Students develop a personal and meaningful outcome for their portfolios, consolidating the projects learning with the creation of a final piece that realises their intentions, demonstrates understanding of visual language and the application of formal elements. Assessments are based on the quality and presentation of their research and their independent application of the key skills taught; with final assessments representing the accumulative development of students’ portfolios.
Personal Investigation: Experimentation, Composition and Design
Students develop their understanding of the rules of composition in order to enhance the structure of their design work, considering how composition affects the tone of their work and how it communicates information or emotion to their audience; they create a series of design ideas, experiments and refinements conveying their intentions and making connections to their research. Assessments are based the quality of the design work presented in students’ portfolios and their independent application of the key skills taught, with final assessments representing the accumulative development of students’ portfolios.
Personal Investigation: Final Piece
Students develop a personal and meaningful outcome, consolidating the projects learning with the creation of a final piece that realises their intentions, demonstrates understanding of visual language and the application of formal elements, based on their independent themes. Students will be assessed on the quality of their final piece and their application of the key skills taught, with final assessments representing the accumulative development of students’ portfolios.
Personal Investigation: Related Study
Students will develop their ability to write a structured, critical and reasoned essay and informs their practical ideas; developing their ability to communicate their knowledge and understanding of the practitioners, artworks, movements and genres that will inform the context of their personal investigation, in the writing of a related study. Assessments are based on the quality of their related study, with final assessments representing the accumulative development of student’s entire portfolios.