The Senior Art courses is designed to meet the curriculum objectives of the National Art Curriculum, and allow students to achieve success with Visual Art Achievement Standards.  

The programme allows students to develop:

• Artistic skills with a variety of mediums building on the skills taught at year 9 & 10. There will be a series of workshops to teach you new skills and introduce new media.

• Creative imagination

• Personal techniques

• Gather information and develop ideas for making artworks

• Promote independent work habits and to extend your personal learning. 

• Create a series of artworks

• This course covers practical and thinking skills required for Year 12 and 13 senior art subjects and  is a good foundation for the NCEA Level 2  courses in Painting and Photography. 

Students look at and discuss the work of important historical and contemporary artists.

All of the art assignments consist of both homework and classroom projects.

Course Expectations

Students are expected to be curious, experiment, take chances, fail and to learn from it, share their experiences during in-class critiques, respect the work and ideas of classmates, develop a set of criteria for discussing and judging work, think, and finally, become familiar with artwork made by other people.

During class students will have access to a range of art materials but are required to have a range of their own materials for use outside of class time. 

Students will keep a workbook to collect ideas and anything of interest to them.  

Integrated Asessments

What does this mean?

The course is broken into 4  assessments. These units of work will integrate and contribute work towards each other and be based on a years study on one theme. You will be creating a series of work

Each assessment will be assessed at a set time during the year.  Work from each unit may be incorporated into another assessment and assessed against more than one marking criteria.  

Due to the course being structured as units of work integrated with a number of formative checkpoints there is no resubmission opportunities.

Year 11 Art Class website

You will have some equipment supplied as an art pack for you to use during the year. This is yours to keep and will  be disbursed to your account. You should already have your own basic equipment like brushes etc.

Art equipment needs to be kept in your pencil case so you bring it to school and home. Other supplies are to be left at home so you have the equipment for home learning. 

Bring back and forth to school for use at home and in school

Workbook - supplied

To be kept in pencil case supplied:

Palette knife -supplied

Range of sketch pencils 2B, 4B etc - NOT SUPPLIED YOU SHOULD ALREADY HAVE THIS

Ink pen, Fine sharpie NOT SUPPLIED YOU SHOULD ALREADY HAVE THIS

Range paint brushes NOT SUPPLIED YOU SHOULD ALREADY HAVE THIS

To be left at home 

8 set of acrylic paint -supplied

Acrylic paint medium -supplied

A3 Drawing wallet and paper supplies - black, brown, wet strength etc -supplied

Graphite transfer paper -supplied

We will be using the following apps for the class which would be beneficial for you to have on a phone or tablet with a camera you can use.

* pinterest (school account)

* google slideshow

If you do not have a phone or camera that works, I will have the department ipad that you can use to photograph your work and you can email or airdrop them to yourself. You will use your laptop for pinterest and google slides.