Work Samples - Grade A
The work samples for this grade, together, assist teachers to gain a common understanding of the standard of work typically produced by students whose performance, on balance, matches the description for Grade A.
At the end of Stage 5 for the School Certificate, student achievement is reported using the Course Performance Descriptors. Read more about School Certificate Grading.
Activity: Mixed media painting (View Activity…)
Students use a variety of surface effects and textures that integrate photographic images and collage.
Activity: City as Utopia: City in Decline - Design for Sculpture (View Activity…)
Students will plan and design a freestanding sculpture in response to their investigation of the city, incorporating the use of found objects and a variety of construction techniques.
Work Samples: Shannon
Activity: The Natural Environment - Disintegration/Restoration (View Activity…)
Students will create a grid composition and apply a range of drawing techniques to render images to represent the restoration and disintegration of the natural environment.
Work Samples: Courtney
Activity: City as Utopia - Relief prints (View Activity…)
Students use photographs and drawings to develop a design for a relief print that represents the city as utopia.
Work Samples: Riley
Activity: Portrait (View Activity…)
Students investigate a range of painting and drawing techniques to make a portrait.
Work Samples: Drew, Jules, Indra, Lesley
Activity: City landscape (View Activity…)
Students investigate a range of painting techniques such as scumbling, impasto, dry brush and glazing, to represent the subject matter of the city.
Work Samples: Dale
Activity: Landscape and the Built Environment - Printmaking: Etching Print (View Activity…)
Students deign and make a print representing the local landscape and built environment.
Work Samples: Chandra, Reese, Rowan, Jo
Grade A
The student has an extensive knowledge and understanding of the content and can readily apply this knowledge. In addition, the student has achieved a very high level of competence in the processes and skills and can apply these skills to new situations.