NCEA Level 1 Visual Art - The World Around Us!
Course Description
Teacher in Charge: Mr A. Yates.
Take items from the world around us and make them into amazing art works. A practical art course where you will explore and build skills through various art disciplines including: painting, printmaking, and sculpture. Throughout the year you will learn a range of skills using various wet and dry media including: pencil, pen, pastel, collage, paint and ink. From these skills you will combine them to create a theme-based folio board that interests you. The skills you learn will allow you to do well in the Year 12 and 13 Art Programmes of Fine Art (Painting, Printmaking and Sculpture), Photography and Design.
(Work from 2020 Level 1 Waiopehu Design Students)
Recommended Prior Learning
Preferably has taken an Art at Year 9 or 10 Art
Pathway
Assessment Information
In 2024 students will be using the new NCEA Visual Art achievement standards worth a total of 20 credits (10 internal credits and 10 external 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.
External
NZQA Info
Visual Arts 1.1 - Use practice-based visual inquiry to explore an Aotearoa New Zealand Māori context and another cultural context
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Visual Arts 1.2 - Produce resolved artwork appropriate to established art making conventions
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Visual Arts 1.3 - Explore Visual Arts processes and conventions to inform own art making
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Visual Arts 1.4 - Create a sustained body of related artworks in response to an art making proposition
Pathway Tags
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Disclaimer
Standards shown on courses are only an indication and not all may be offered at the time of study.