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Art & Design Key Stage 4/GCSE |
There are usually two GCSE groups of around 20 students each who follow the Edexcel specification. It has two parts:
• The Final Exam, which is 40% of the GCSE grade
• Coursework, which is the other 60%
Eight weeks in advance of the final exam students are given the title (or Starting Point). During those eight weeks students prepare an idea, and then, in ten hours make a final piece of art.
The Coursework is a series of projects (or units). Over the two years, students produce 'separate and substantial' units of work. At the end of the course they display their work and their Final Exam unit so that staff and the examiner can mark them. If, at the end of the course, students do not submit a minimum of 2 Coursework units, and the Final Exam unit they will be disqualified.
Each Coursework unit and the Final Exam must contain:
• RESEARCH - first drawings from direct observation, usually made with the art study
• ART STUDY - a study of other artists who have done the same sort of work, clearly showing how their art fits into the student's own and the context in which the artist made her/ his own work
• DEVELOPMENT - evidence that students have thought about the progress of their work from first idea to final piece, can plan and evaluate it; development will include further or 'second drawings' from direct observation.
• FINAL PIECE - a completed piece of art, in whatever medium is suitable for a student's ideas.
Much of this work is done in an A3 sketch book (called a Work Journal), this means that work in the journal must be well presented (rough work can be done in the smaller A5 book or on separate sheets of paper). It also means that students must not lose any of their Work Journals.
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