Photography Hub

1. Department Overview & Exam Board

• Key Department Contacts:
  
  

  • Head of Department: kerry.treen@moultonschool.co.uk

  • Teacher of Art and Photography: charlie.belcher@moultonschool.co.uk
    
    
    

• Exam Board & Course Codes:
  
  

  • GCSE Art and Design (Photography) Awarding body AQA

2. The Journey (Curriculum Map)

• This GCSE consists of 60% Coursework (Unit 1 - Portfolio) and 40% Externally set task (Unit 2 - Exam project)

60% Unit 1.

• • Students have already completed their first coursework project entitled "Identity" and have produced a project within their digital sketchbooks leading to a final piece.

  • Students are currently at the stage where their own personal ideas are developing in response to our overall theme of "Environment". 

  • Students will continue to work towards their own final outcome, researching photographers, creating photo shoots and completing edits on their photographs. They will begin their final piece / pieces during the mock exam in December, and then complete in the lessons that follow. All coursework, including digital sketchbooks, hand manipulated techniques folder and final pieces is to be handed in the first lesson back after the Christmas holidays.  

40% Unit 2 Externally Set Task - This will be issued in January of Year 11 by AQA and is an independent project

• Students choose from a range of starting points presented by the exam board. They have until Easter to build a body of work relevant to their chosen theme.

• Their final outcome / outcomes is created in controlled conditions in school, during a 10 hour (2 day) examination.

3. The Destination (Exam Requirements & Goals) 

• Both Unit 1 (60%) and Unit 2 (40%) are marked separately out of 96.

Grade boundaries calculation:

(Unit 1 x3 - 288) + (Unit 2 x2 - 192) - maximum mark - 480

9/403 8/371 7/340 6/303 5/266 4/230 3/166 2/103 1/40

• 1. The four assessment objectives are equally weighted 

     1. AO1 - Develop - 24

     2. AO2 - Refine - 24

     3. AO3 - Record - 24

     4. AO4 - Present - 24

More information about what each of these assessment objectives look like can be found on the guide below.

Visual examples of each assessment objective slides 5 - 8

Breakdown of assessment criteria slide 9

5. The Support Toolkit & Resources

Pupil Google Classroom Code / Links:

Individual lesson resources can be found on the students' google classrooms 

• • 11A Pt1 - Mrs Treen and Mrs Belcher

    • https://classroom.google.com/c/MjE1NTQxMDAxMTla

  • 11B Pt1 - Mrs Treen

    • https://classroom.google.com/c/MjMzNjcxMDM1OTda

Photography Analysis Support Document

6. Practical Advice for Support at Home

• Students should all have access to their school google drive at home, to share photoshoots that take place outside of the classroom. Once saved onto the google drive these can be accessed in school and added to digital sketchbook work. Completing photo shoots within the deadline period is crucial to students development inside of the classroom.

• Homework & Coursework Structure: Students should be completing at least one hour a week outside of the lesson on their photography. This can be either a task that is set for the student group, or at this stage in the course following one to one advice from their class teacher.

  • Any digital sketchbook work can be completed on google slides and then saved to students' one drive to then copy to their digital sketchbooks in school  

• Annotation to critique photographers and artists' work and support visual analysis of students own work is important when showing contextual understanding.

• Lesson resources are posted onto students google classroom pages 

Downloadable Resources & Files