GCSE Photography

Year 9 – Workshop based tasks

Autumn Term

• Formal Elements – exploring each one in detail and using them as a focus for a mini photography project
• Basic skills of using a bridge camera

Spring Term

• Intro to Photoshop
• Experimenting with mixed media
• Artist research (cultural understanding)

Summer Term

• Creative project
• Visit to Burghley House
• Structures

Year 10 – 60% coursework

Over the course of the year, students will complete 3 coursework projects which vary year by year. Below are the starting points…

• Structures (…continued)
• Personal Identity
• London/viewpoints
• Fusion
• Inside/Outside

Year 11 – Closing the gap on coursework and 40% exam

Autumn Term

• Natural Forms

Spring Term

• AQA releases the exam starting points
• Exam preparatory work which consists of a portfolio of work leading up to a final response which is completed in the 10 hour exam

Summer Term

• 10 hour exam – final response
• All work moderated internally and externally by an AQA moderator – end of May