GCSE Choices Handbook - Rishworth School

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9Rishworth SchoolGCSE CHOICES10Languages continued>CORE SUBJECTthem tremendously in their other academicsubjects. I.E.L.T.S. is recognized atuniversities and sixth-form collegesthroughout the world.The two courses complement one anotheras they run side by side throughout the twoyears.Particular LearningNeeds (PLN):If a pupil is directed to follow the PLN coursethey will continue to receive support for theirliteracy skills- reading, spelling, writing,punctuation, comprehension, and for theirorganisational skills. Study skills and supportwith course work will also be provided.The pupils will also follow the ASDAN awardscheme in order to attain a minimum ofBronze Award Certificate in Year 10, and theCertificate of Personal Effectiveness in Year 11.Art and Design:Content:The course aims to encourage students toexpress their ideas with hand and eye and togive full rein to their imagination andcreativity. Students will sharpen their visualawareness, develop their practical artisticskills, and increase their self-confidence.The course in Art and Design is unendorsed:students will be introduced to a variety ofexperiences exploring a range of two and/orthree dimensional media, techniques andprocesses which may include painting anddrawing, textiles, three dimensional designand printmaking. They will explore relevantimages, artefacts and resources relating to arange of art, craft and design, from the pastand from recent times, including Europeanand non-European examples will be integralto the investigating and making process.Throughout the course students will beexpected to demonstrate skills andtechniques such as:• making appropriate use of colour, line,tone, texture, shape and form• using different approaches to recordingimages, such as observation, analysis,expression and imaginationMode of Assessment:Unit 1: Portfolio of WorkControlled Assessment Set by the DepartmentThe portfolio must include more than oneextended collection of work, or project whichdemonstrates an ability to sustain work frominitial starting points to the realisation ofintentions and include evidence of research,the development of ideas and meaningfullinks with critical/contextual sources.A response to all four assessment objectivesis required in the portfolio as a whole.Marked by the Department andmoderated by AQA(60% of total mark.Marked out of 80)Unit 2: External – Set TaskExternal Assessment Set by AQAStudents respond to their chosen startingpoint to produce a personal response.There is unlimited preparation time and a10hour supervised period of sustained focusedstudy when students are expected to developtheir own unaided work informed by theirpreparatory studies. A response to all fourassessment objectives is required.Marked by the Department and moderatedby AQA(40% of total mark. Marked out of 80)OPTIONAL SUBJECT• show an understanding of representationaland abstract/non-representational imageryand genres• investigate different ways of working thatare appropriate to their chosen area ofstudy• provide evidence of an understanding ofspatial qualities, composition, scale andstructure• provide evidence of using selectingappropriate materials and using them safely• undertake independent research relevant totheir chosen area of studyExamination Board: AQA (Art and Design)
11Rishworth SchoolGCSE CHOICES12OPTIONAL SUBJECTBusiness Studies:Content:Each and every day we are affected by theworkings of business. Many pupils willultimately be employed by businesses bothlarge and small; some may even establishtheir own company. It seems appropriate,therefore, that Business Studies should beoffered as a GCSE option.The course aims to relate all aspects of thework to easily identifiable, real-worldsituations with which students will be familiar.Students are encouraged to develop anunderstanding of the environments withinwhich business activity takes place; of themajor groups and organisations within andoutside business; of the roles and purposesof business activity in both the public and theprivate sectors; of competition and monopoly;and of how the main types of business andcommercial institutions are organised,financed and operated.Year 10 will focus on Unit 1: Starting a NewBusiness including Objectives, BusinessPlans, Market Research, Finance, Cash Flowand Motivating workers.Year 11 will focus on Unit 2: Growing as aBusiness including Companies, the MarketingMix, Profit & Loss statements, BalanceSheets, Economies of Scale and LeanProduction.organisation, as well as accessing informationover the internet.The course is suitable for students within thefull ability range but a genuine interest, andthe ability to use technical terms accuratelyand to write in good English are required.It is an excellent grounding for both 'A' levelBusiness Studies and ' A' level Economics aswell as a wide range of vocational furthereducational courses.Examination Board: AQAMode of Assessment:Examination: 2 papers (2 x 1 hours)Unit 1 (40%)Unit 2 (35%)both at the end of Year 11andUnit 3 (25%) the Controlled AssessmentDesign and Technology:Graphic Products(Compliant Materials)Content:This syllabus provides students theopportunity to develop an awareness of thenature and significant importance of Design& Technology in a rapidly changing society.It enables students to develop theirapplication of knowledge, skills, andunderstanding of a Graphic Products(Compliant Materials) focus within anoverall design and make based approach.The assessment of candidates includes bothpractical capability in Design and Technology,applied to designing and making a product,and the knowledge and understanding whichunderpins this capability.Examination Board: EdexcelMode of Assessment:Candidates will be required to sit one writtenPaper (Unit 1) of one and a half hoursduration. The paper is untiered andaccommodates the full grade range: A* to G.Unit 1 will test a candidate's knowledge andunderstanding of Graphic Products throughquestions on designing and making.Candidates are required to answer allquestions. Students apply their knowledgeand understanding of Graphic Products(Compliant Materials) throughmultiple-choice, short-answer andextended-writing and design type questions.Edexcel will provide five tasks and the studenthas to choose one of them. The tasks arebroad themes, which can be adapted, so thereis a high degree of flexibility. The five themesEdexcel has chosen for Graphic Products arepackaging, point-of-sale display, cardmechanisms, concept design and interiordesign. The coursework submission willtake the form of a design folder and amanufactured artefact and will be producedduring the first two terms of the year of Year 11.Coursework:Examination:40 hours60% of the final markOne paper (untiered)40% of the final markOPTIONAL SUBJECTThe Unit 3: Investigating Businesses: TheControlled Assessment will also be covered inYear 11.Students will be expected to be resourceful.There will be practical activities, andassignments will involve individual and groupstudies of local businesses and theirThe internally assessed coursework unit(Unit 2) will be undertaken using controlledassessment. As part of controlledassessment, Edexcel recommends thatstudents should be able to complete theirwork in 40 hours. This 40 hours can bebroken down for each criteria to reflect theamount of time the student should bespending on a particular part of their work.
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