NCEA L1 ART
Course Description
Teacher in Charge: Mrs D. Cave-Higgins.
In 2024, the new NCEA Level 1 standards were introduced. We offer all four standards. Each standard is worth 5 credits; 20 credits total.
The first two standards are assessed Internally by the teachers. The other two standards are Externally verified.
Visual Arts students explore, refine, and communicate their own artistic ideas by responding to how art expresses identity, culture, ethnicity, ideas, feelings, moods, beliefs, political viewpoints, and personal perspectives. Through engaging in the visual arts, students learn how to discern, participate in, and celebrate their own and others' visual worlds.
Visual Arts literacy is developed through creativity and connection, inquiry and production, challenge and invention, and transformation and empowerment. Students create and respond to works using curiosity, collaboration, courage, critical thinking, and creativity. They confidently use iterative and cyclical processes of practising, selecting, reflecting, editing, and refining to create a cohesive and fluent artistic expression or body of work. By learning to identify Visual Arts conventions, students will also understand how these conventions communicate meanings through intention within established practice.
Students at Levels 6-8 of The New Zealand Curriculum engage with contexts that are typically broad, deep, and large in scale, and extend beyond personal experience. The contexts involve multiple interacting elements, contested ideas, provocative or nuanced interpretations, and require sustained engagement to understand. Students need to make sense of theoretical models and frameworks in order to make sense of the context(s) and apply them to their own work.
Example of a Level 1 Art - External submission
Course Overview
Term 1
Visual Arts 1.1 - A.S.91912 5 CREDITS Internal assessment.
Use practice-based visual inquiry to explore Aotearoa New Zealand's Māori context and another cultural context.
Term 2
Visual Arts 1.2 - A.S.91913 5 CREDITS Internal assessment.
Produce resolved artwork appropriate to established art making conventions.
Term 3
Two External standards start towards the end of Term 2; 1.3 (A.S.91914) and 1.4 (A.S.91915)
These are both submitted digitally in Week 2 of Term 4.
Visual Arts 1.3 - A.S.91914 5 CREDITS External assessment.
Explore Visual Arts processes and conventions to inform own art making.
Visual Arts 1.4 - A.S.91915 5 CREDITS External assessment.
Create a sustained body of related artworks in response to an art making proposition.
Term 4
Completion of the External standards; A.S.91914 and A.S.91915. These are assessed in Week 1 of Term 4.
Recommended Prior Learning
Some experiences of Art at Year 10 is an advantage. However, the key thing is to have a willingness to learn, to work hard and to try your best. Everything else can be taught.
Contributions and Equipment/Stationery
Take-home component costs are expected. This includes a specified Art kit.
Pathway
At levels 2 & 3, students may choose to take more than one Visual Arts subject. Courses available include: Painting, Printmaking, Design, Photography.
Assessment Information
A.S.91912 - 1.1 - Internal - 5 creditsA.S.91913 - 1.2 - Internal - 5 credits
A.S.91914 - 1.3 - External - 5 credits
A.S.91915 - 1.4 - External - 5 credits
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.
This course is approved for University Entrance.
External
NZQA Info
Visual Arts 1.1 - Use practice-based visual inquiry to explore an Aotearoa New Zealand Māori context and another cultural context
NZQA Info
Visual Arts 1.2 - Produce resolved artwork appropriate to established art making conventions
NZQA Info
Visual Arts 1.3 - Explore Visual Arts processes and conventions to inform own art making
NZQA Info
Visual Arts 1.4 - Create a sustained body of related artworks in response to an art making proposition