The Rosewood School provides all students with bespoke art education in areas such as drawing, painting, mixed media, printmaking, textiles and photography.  In a supportive and motivational art space, classes provide tailored guidance to ensure all students feel safe and secure whilst developing their knowledge, skills and understanding to achieve their potential in Art.

The art class environment is designed to encourage learning, so all students meet the assessment objectives and learn new creative skills. This encourages every student to work at their own creative pace, developing their own unique skill set and style.  At KS3 students study a variety of topics including Pop Art, Surrealism, Egyptology, and Mythology.  Students in Year 10 study Natural form and Sweets and Cakes, developing skills in workshop format to enable them to complete coursework units for submission with TRS or their next educational setting. All students attending The Rosewood School in Year 11 will be submitted for the GCSE Fine Art course (AQA).

Y10 & Y11 GCSE Fine Art – Area of Study

In Component 1 and Component 2 students are required to work in one or more area(s) of fine art, such as:

  • - Drawing
  • - Painting
  • - Sculpture
  • - Installation
  • - Lens-/light-based media
  • - Photography and the moving image
  • - Printmaking
  • - Mixed media
  • - Land art.

They may explore overlapping areas and combinations of areas. Knowledge, understanding and skills Students must develop and apply the knowledge, understanding and skills specified in the Subject content (page 13) within the context of fine art practice and their selected area(s) of study. The following aspects of the knowledge, understanding and skills are defined in further detail to ensure students’ work is clearly focused and relevant to fine art.

Knowledge and understanding the way sources inspire the development of ideas, relevant to fine art including:

  • - How sources relate to individual, social, historical, environmental, cultural, ethical and/or issues-based contexts
  • - How ideas, themes, forms, feelings and concerns can inspire personally determined responses that are primarily aesthetic, intellectual or conceptual.

The ways in which meanings, ideas and intentions relevant to fine art can be communicated including the use of:

- Figurative representation, abstraction, stylisation, simplification, expression, exaggeration and imaginative interpretation

- Visual and tactile elements, such as:

  •    • Colour
  •    • Line
  •    • Form
  •    • Tone
  •    • Texture
  •    • Shape
  •    • Composition
  •    • Rhythm

Skills Within the context of fine art, students must demonstrate the ability to:

- Use fine art techniques and processes, appropriate to students’ personal intentions, for example:

  •    • Mark-making
  •    • Mono-print
  •    • Calligraphy and block printing
  •    • Assemblage
  •    • Construction
  •    • Carving
  •    • Film and video
  •    • Digital working methods

- Use media and materials, as appropriate to students’ personal intentions, for example:

  •    • Charcoal, pastels, pen and ink, crayons and pencil
  •    • Watercolour, gouache, acrylic and oil paint
  •    • Found materials
  •    • Clay, wood and metal
  •    • Digital imagery
  •    • Different papers and surfaces on which to work

Students will be working towards the following assessment objectives

AO1: Develop ideas through investigations, demonstrating critical understanding of sources.

AO2: Refine work by exploring ideas, selecting and experimenting with appropriate media, materials, techniques and processes.

AO3: Record ideas, observations and insights relevant to intentions as work progresses.

AO4: Present a personal and meaningful response that realises intentions and demonstrates understanding of visual language.

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