ART1

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.

Career Pathways

Assessment Information

A.S.91912 - 1.1 - Internal - 5 credits
A.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.

Total Credits Available: 20
Internal Assessed Credits: 0
External Assessed Credits: 20
Optional Credits Available: 0
Optional Internal Assessed Credits: 0
Optional External Assessed Credits: 0
Assessment
Description
Level
Internal or
External
Credits
L1 Literacy Credits
UE Literacy Credits
Numeracy Credits
A.S. 91912 v4
NZQA Info

Visual Arts 1.1 - Use practice-based visual inquiry to explore an Aotearoa New Zealand Māori context and another cultural context


Level: 1
Internal or External: Internal
Credits: 5
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0
Numeracy Credits: 0
A.S. 91913 v3
NZQA Info

Visual Arts 1.2 - Produce resolved artwork appropriate to established art making conventions


Level: 1
Internal or External: Internal
Credits: 5
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0
Numeracy Credits: 0
A.S. 91914 v4
NZQA Info

Visual Arts 1.3 - Explore Visual Arts processes and conventions to inform own art making


Level: 1
Internal or External: External
Credits: 5
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0
Numeracy Credits: 0
A.S. 91915 v3
NZQA Info

Visual Arts 1.4 - Create a sustained body of related artworks in response to an art making proposition


Level: 1
Internal or External: External
Credits: 5
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0
Numeracy Credits: 0
Credit Summary
Total Credits: 20
Total Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
Total University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0
Total Numeracy Credits: 0