This course requires 2 options.
Level 1 Visual Art
Although next year timetables are yet to be finalised, course selection is now finished. Any changes to student courses will now take place in January.
Subject Description
Teacher in Charge: Ms A. Blackwell.
Ko wai au? Who am I? The themes for the year's work is based on students' identity and personal interests.
The themes and subject matter explored in this course, will consist of drawing in from subject matter and developing and generating ideas from Tūrangawaewae, the landscape, figures, the environment, Whakapapa, personal identity, personal and cultural images, still life, personal and cultural images or symbols or icons, Whatatuiki, storytelling. Works should show that ideas, techniques or conventions from artists' works have been used.
This is explored visually, through a range of wet and dry media and different art-making techniques, and processes. This course encompasses the following fields of Art practice during the course of the year - Painting - Photography - Sculpture - Digital Media.
This course is intended to give students a model for the development and production of visual images and ideas, which they can build on in the future. Much of the year is spent improving practical techniques, developing ideas and creating final artworks for the external folio. (12 credits.)
Students will work in consultation with their teacher to devise an individualised, personal learning and assessment programme which will compromise of up to a maximum total of 20 credits.
Students will document their ako/learning and studies of chosen subject matter in their A3 workbooks.
Art works should be linked to each other in the way that you develop your ideas, techniques, methods and artist works studied.
Internals are assessed from the learning evidence gathered in student's workbooks.
Recommended Prior Learning
Year 10 Art is preferred
Approximate Costs and Equipment/Stationery
Cost $60.00 for equipment and specialised stationery pack. This will be provided as a pack in class.
This includes all the materials and equipment required for this course - including paint, brushes an A3 workbook.
Pathway
Credit Information
You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.
This course is eligible for subject endorsement.
External
NZQA Info
Visual Arts 1.1 - Use practice-based visual inquiry to explore an Aotearoa New Zealand Māori context and another cultural context
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Visual Arts 1.2 - Produce resolved artwork appropriate to established art making conventions
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Visual Arts 1.3 - Explore Visual Arts processes and conventions to inform own art making
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Visual Arts 1.4 - Create a sustained body of related artworks in response to an art making proposition