This course is about having an adventurous and enquiring approach to art and design and developing the skills to express it. You will develop an understanding of past and contemporary art and design and produce personal responses, embracing a range of ideas. You will gain a working knowledge of the materials, practices and technology of art and design. You will be following a course which teaches fine art, graphic design, photography and 3D design. You then select from these disciplines an area/s to specialise in during later Year 10 and Year 11.

You may wish to do a GCSE in Art & Design for its own sake, perhaps to form the basis of a future interest. Or you might wish to go into a job where it is useful to have had experience of art, craft and design, or where you will need to use some of the skills developed during this course. Such jobs are numerous and might include fields such as advertising, marketing, design (particularly Fashion and Graphics), architecture and media.

This is a two component qualification:

Component 01: Portfolio. (60%) You will be given scenarios or stimuli as starting points to develop a portfolio of work.

Component 02: OCR Set Task. (40%) You formulate a personal response to a set

question, chosen from an early-release paper, followed by a ten hour practical test.

Click below to view the GCSE art and design options presentation and a short film overview of course.