Visual Arts - LEVEL 1

VISUAL ARTS : (L1ART)

Level: NCEA Level 1 Achievement standards: 18 credits (**includes four optional credits)
Prerequisites: Achievement in Year 9 or Year 10 Visual Arts is preferrable, but not essential. Having an interest in drawing and digital art making is required. If new to Visual Arts, you must seek permission from the Head of Arts Learning Area (HoLA), or Teacher in Charge (TiC).
Learning Activities: This course focuses on building upon the skills students have learned in junior Art and further develops their practical skills, and awareness of Art conventions and contemporary practice. It will also prepare them for NCEA assessment. The course mainly involves working on a negotiated cultural theme. Students will learn drawing from subject matter using wet and dry media, developing Art ideas through the production of related drawings and paintings, and will research artworks from various New Zealand and international culturally significant artists. There is an optional extension standard available.
Resource Requirements: Most resources in class will be provided. Additional resources can be purchased for home working. A workspace at home would be of benefit.

L1ART	*Eligible for Course Endorsement*			CREDITS
Standard	RWB L N	Standard Descriptor	Level	Int	Ext	VP
AS90913	L	Visual Arts 1.1 - Demonstrate understanding of art works from a Maori and another cultural context using art terminology	1	4		SI, CI
AS90914		Visual Arts 1.2 - Use drawing methods and skills for recording information using wet and dry media	1	4		CI
AS90915		Visual Arts 1.3 - Use drawing conventions to develop work in more than one field of practice	1	6		CI
AS90917		Visual Arts 1.5 - Produce a finished work that demonstrates skills appropriate to cultural conventions	1	4		CI
*NOTES:* Course is subject to change with the review of standards at the end of each year. L = Contributes to 10 credits L1 Literacy : N = Contributes to 10 credits L1 Numeracy : VP = Vocational Pathways

Pathways / Career Relevance: Architect; Archivist; Art Consultant; Art Editor; Art Gallery Director; Artist; Cartoonist; Cinematographer; Courtroom Sketch Artist; Critic; Curator; Engraver; Exhibit Designer; Fashion Designer; Furniture Designer; Gallery Director; Graphic Designer; Historian; Illustrator; Interior Decorator; Jewellery Designer; Journalist; Landscape Designer; Medical Illustrator; Multimedia Consultant; Museum Director; Non-profit Administrator; Painter; Performer; Photographer; Product Designer; Sculptor; Set Designer; Special Effects Consultant; Tattoo Artist or Teacher.

DANCE : (L1DAN)

Level: NCEA level 1 Achievement standards: 24 Credits
Prerequisites: This is a very physical course and students will be required to move most lessons. It is a great subject for students who like to learn through moving and wish to build their flexibility and core strength. There is a theory component of viewing and analysing dance performance for the external standards. If new to Dance, you must seek permission from our Head of Arts Learning Area (HoLA), or Teacher in Charge (TiC).
Learning Activities: Level 1 Dance students will learn to understand dance in context, develop practical knowledge and ideas and communication and interpretation. They will compose dance sequences for given briefs and perform, demonstrate ensemble skills in dance, demonstrate understanding of the elements of dance, and also their understanding of a dance performance. Students will learn by dance practice, plus it is expected they will put in one to two hours of theory homework per week. The by-products of learning dance include the instrumental benefits of physical health, emotional maturation, social awareness, cognitive development, and academic achievement. Students of artistic dance also develop and use creative higher-order thinking skills while inventing solutions to movement problems. Just like an artistic choreographer has to be an inventive problem solver, weaving aesthetic movement to find logical solutions to kinesthetic issues, students of artistic dance have to engage higher-order thinking skills when completing choreographic movement assignments and exercises that present kinesthetic and spatial problems.
Resource Requirements: Students must bring appropriate clothes to dance in every period. They will require a refill and folder (or clear file), and blue or black pen for class work. Highlighters are highly recommended.

L2ART		Eligible for Endors	ement	CRED	ITS	VOCATIONAL
Standard	RWB	Standard Descriptor	LEVEL	INT	EXT	PATHWAYS
AS91306	L	Visual Arts 2.1 - Demonstrate understanding of methods and ideas from established practice appropriate to painting	2	4		CI
AS91311		Visual Arts 2.2 - Use drawing methods to apply knowledge of conventions appropriate to painting	2	4		CI
AS91316		Visual Arts 2.3 - Develop ideas in a related series of drawings appropriate to established painting practice	2	4		CI
AS91325		Visual Arts 2.5 - Produce a resolved work that demonstrates control of skills appropriate to cultural conventions	2	4		CI

Level: NCEA Level 3 Achievement standards: 24 credits (**optional standards)

Prerequisites: Achievement in Level 2 Visual Arts is preferrable, but not essential. Having an interest in drawing and digital art making is required. IIf new to Visual Arts, you must seek permission from HoLA (Mrs Chuck), or TiC.

Learning Activities: This course focuses on building upon the skills students have learned in Level 2 Art and further develops their practical skills, and awareness of Art conventions and contemporary practice. It will prepare them for Level 2 NCEA assessment. The course mainly involves students developing ideas within their own artworks based around a subject chosen by themselves. They will learn to select a topic of self-interest to explore and develop in art-making, to use model artists to help inform their art works, and will make decisions about media, conventions, and ideas within their own painting practice.

Resource Requirements: Most resources in class will be provided. Additional resources can be purchased for home working. A workspace at home would be of benefit.

L3ART		Eligible for Endors	ement	CRED	ITS	VOCATIONAL
Standard	RWB	Standard Descriptor	LEVEL	INT	EXT	PATHWAYS
AS91441	L,R	Painting 3.1 - Analyse methods and ideas from established painting practice	3	4		SI, CI
AS91446		Painting 3.2 - Use drawing to demonstrate understanding of conventions appropriate to painting	3	4		CI
AS91451		Painting 3.3 - Systematically clarify ideas using drawing informed by established painting practice	3	4		CI
AS91460		Painting 3.5 - Produce a resolved work that demonstrates purposeful control of skills appropriate to a visual arts cultural context	3	4		CI