NCEA L1 Visual Arts
Course Description
Teacher in Charge: Mrs D. Cave-Higgins.
In 2024, new NCEA Level 1 standards are being introduced. There will be four standards, two assessed Internally and two Externals, each worth 5 credits.
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.
Level 1 Art portfolio
Course Overview
Term 1
Visual Arts 1.1
Use practice-based visual inquiry to explore Aotearoa New Zealand's Māori context and another cultural context.
Internal assessment
91912
5 CREDITS
Term 2
Visual Arts 1.2
Produce resolved artwork appropriate to established art making conventions.
Internal assessment
91913
5 CREDITS
Visual Arts 1.3
Explore Visual Arts processes and conventions to inform own art making.
External assessment.
91914
5 CREDITS
Term 3
Visual Arts 1.4
Create a sustained body of related artworks in response to an art making proposition.
External assessment.
91915
5 CREDITS
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
Contribution to the take-home component costs is expected.
Pathway
At levels 2 & 3, students may choose to take more than one Visual Arts subject. Courses available include: Painting, Printmaking, Design, Photography.
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.
Total Credits Available: 30 credits.
Externally Assessed Credits: 12 credits.
Internally Assessed Credits: 18 credits.
External
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