ART1

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.

Career Pathways

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.

Assessment
Description
Level
Internal or
External
Credits
L1 Literacy Credits
UE Literacy Credits
Numeracy Credits
A.S. 90913 v4
NZQA Info
Visual Arts 1.1 - Demonstrate understanding of art works from a Māori and another cultural context using art terminology
Level: 1
Internal or External: Internal
Credits: 4
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0
Numeracy Credits: 0
A.S. 90914 v3
NZQA Info
Visual Arts 1.2 - Use drawing methods and skills for recording information using wet and dry media
Level: 1
Internal or External: Internal
Credits: 4
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0
Numeracy Credits: 0
A.S. 90915 v2
NZQA Info
Visual Arts 1.3 - Use drawing conventions to develop work in more than one field of practice
Level: 1
Internal or External: Internal
Credits: 6
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0
Numeracy Credits: 0
A.S. 90916 v3
NZQA Info
Visual Arts 1.4 - Produce a body of work informed by established practice, which develops ideas, using a range of media
Level: 1
Internal or External: External
Credits: 12
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0
Numeracy Credits: 0
A.S. 90917 v3
NZQA Info
Visual Arts 1.5 - Produce a finished work that demonstrates skills appropriate to cultural conventions
Level: 1
Internal or External: Internal
Credits: 4
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0
Numeracy Credits: 0
Credit Summary
Total Credits: 30
Total Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
Total University Entrance Literacy Credits: 0
Total Numeracy Credits: 0