Critiques for year 13's commence this Thursday at interval

What is a Critique?

Starting in 2012, and 2013, we did critiques with our Year 13 students. These were not done in class, it was an interval break. The students who refused to participate, interestingly, had less than satisfactory folio grades. we then started moving towards our multi level classes and wondered if we still needed them with this new environment. Based on last year's mixed bag of results, I feel we do.

A critique is a discussion strategy used to analyse, describe, and interpret works of art. Critiques help students hone their arguments, information-gathering, and justification skills.

Thank you google. 

We will be doing this once a fortnight, at interval on Thursday. This will be pulling all three year 13 class students together at once. If this is not a good time due to prefect commitments, we will change it. 

If you choose not to participate, then it is unlikely to be appropriate for you to sit the folio. These are skills that are required of students working on a standard that expects as much as it does and is 14 credits (it is huge when you think about your other courses).

Achievement Criteria

Achievement	Achievement with Merit	Achievement with Excellence
·    Produce a systematic body of work that integrates conventions and regenerates ideas within photography practice.	·    Produce a systematic body of work that purposefully integrates conventions and regenerates particular ideas within photography practice.	·    Produce a systematic body of work that synthesises conventions and regenerates a depth of ideas within photography practice.

I have taken the photography schedule, but it is the same for all fields. 

It may seem easy to make your work systematic, but you have only done this over two panels previously. Three is harder. Having others to help tease out ideas is useful.

If you can explain and justify how your work integrates conventions of an artist model, then you are likely doing it, however, if you cannot then you need some help. 

Regeneration is also something you need to be able to help each other with. Sometimes it is hard to know where to go next. Discussing your work helps you move your ideas along. 

If there were ever any foolish children who thought they were not going to need to put in more than class time to complete level three practical art in any field, then I would like you to unlearn that now. Consider this 25 minutes of homework and class time in one. 

This is from the explanatory notes for this standard:

"...1           Produce a systematic body of work that integrates conventions and regenerates ideas involves bringing conventions together to revisit ideas from the student’s previous work in order to re-form and extend ideas into new work..." 

That is for an achieved. 

For an excellence:

"...Produce a systematic body of work that synthesises conventions and regenerates a depth of ideas involves bringing together critically selected ideas and methods from different sources to integrate the conventions and to critically revisit and refine ideas from the student’s previous work in order to re-form and provide options for the extension of ideas into new work and achieve an intended outcome..."

It means it should look like your body of work could go on and on and on, as well as look like it all belongs together, uses at least 6 Artist model influences, which then interweave into new ideas and that your WHY is really clear. 

We need to make sure you are all focussed on doing this stuff really well.