The Art faculty at The Avon Valley School is a creative and exciting place to be. We are an enthusiastic team of teachers who pride ourselves on getting the best out of our students and strive to ensure that they all reach their full potential, whatever their ability. During their journey through the world of art, students will look at a range of artists, use a multiple of media and learn a vast amount of new skills. Our aims are to challenge and inspire students and provide engaging and innovative learning experiences.
Experimenting with a range of techniques and media to promote independent, creative thinking, students will be able to express thoughts and feelings through outcomes and learn to appreciate art throughout their lives
Students to take ownership of their own work and look at their own ideas and themes which is then supported by the teacher.
In year 9 students also complete the Trinity Arts Award bronze certificate – where they develop new skills or improve skills they already have, review their own personal arts experiences, look at performing arts inspiration and become teachers of skills themselves.
OCR Art and Design – Fine Art (J171) GCSE graded 9 – 1
Students will work on their own individual projects where they will explore ideas, experiment with media, materials, techniques and processes. They will then present a personal and meaningful response that realises intentions and demonstrates understanding.
Students select their own topic of choice and work independently with one to one teacher tutorials to create a body of experiments and work to lead on to creating a purposeful and meaningful final piece of art.
How it’s assessed
Students are given 5 different themes set by the exam board. Students will follow the same pattern as the portfolio work but working under one of the exam board themes. The final piece of art work is completed in 10 hours under exam conditions (Spread over 3/4 days)
How it’s assessed
OCR Art and Design – Textile Design (J174) GCSE graded 9 – 1
Students will work on their own individual projects where they will explore ideas, experiment with media, materials, techniques and processes. They will then present a personal and meaningful response that realises intentions and demonstrates understanding.
Students select their own topic of choice and work independently with one to one teacher tutorials to create a body of experiments and work to lead on to creating a purposeful and meaningful final piece of art
How it’s assessed
Students are given 5 different themes set by the exam board. Students will follow the same pattern as the portfolio work but working under one of the exam board themes. The final piece of Art work is completed in 10 hours under exam conditions (spread over 3-4 days)
How it’s assessed
Externally set task, 10 hours non exam assessment worth 40%
(internally assessed and externally moderated)