L1ART

Level 1 Art - Foundation 2025

Course Description

Teacher in Charge: Diane Miller.

This course will offer the exploration of a wide variety of media and techniques, including drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture and/or design.  Students will be encouraged to think critically and develop their perceptual awareness, creative imagination and a personal style.  Students will study the work of a number of artists and develop and extend their own ideas into personal work. This is a foundation course, essential for all further study in all Visual Art subjects at other levels.


View Level 1 Art- Foundation video here


FOR YEAR 11 (LEVEL 1) STUDENTS - 2025:

Students will be given the opportunity to sit literacy/numeracy co-requisites from Year 10.

NCEA Level 1 - following the completion of the first year of implementation of the reduced and revised standards, we will evaluate assessments for 2025.

Art

Recommended Prior Learning

This course is available to all students who completed Year 10 Art. This is a pre-requisite for Level 2 Painting, Design and Photography.

Pathway

Disclaimer

  • Availability of all courses is subject to student numbers and staffing
  • Some courses will not be available if numbers are too small 
  • Some classes may be combined by Year level (e.g. Year 11 and 12 in one class) if numbers do not make separate classes viable 
  • It may not be possible to accommodate all choices and combinations of subjects 
  • Parents/Caregivers and students need to satisfy themselves that a chosen course meets the student’s goals for the following year and beyond