Art & Design
It is our goal, within the Art & Design Department, to provide a stimulating and creative environment so our students can develop their intellectual, imaginative, creative and intuitive powers.
The scheme allows student to follow their own creative interests. It stimulates and challenges our students to realise their potential in a broad and relevant context.
Specification
This specification is made up of two units:
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Unit 1: The Core Portfolio (Controlled Assessment); and
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Unit 2: Working to a Stimulus.
Students must complete both Unit 1 and Unit 2.
In Unit 1, which is worth 60 percent of the final award, students present a portfolio of work. In the portfolio they should explore a wide range of the core skills of visual language, media, materials, techniques and new technology. Work in the portfolio should:
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be edited to show the breadth, depth and quality of experience in art and design that students have gained over the two year course;
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show that students have experience of at least two different creative media;
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address each of the four Assessment Objectives; and
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include one task that has been developed to a final outcome.