Photography
N.B. Photography will no longer be in our A level curriculum offer from September 2025. There are opportunities to develop photographic skills within our Fine Art course.
Year 13:
In the autumn term students continue to develop personal themes and ideas and to devise a suitable topic for their Personal Study. This 1500 - 3000 word essay explores an aspect of photography that relates to their practical enquiries. As well as preparatory work that demonstrates development, experimentation and recording students will also be working on realised, sustained photographic film work that they will form their practical coursework submission.
Students will complete their Personal Studies during the Christmas holidays and finalise their coursework submissions during the period between the start of the spring term and February when they will be given the A2 exam paper from which students develop and explore ideas in response to a given theme. Again this work is tracked and monitored by the department. This preparatory work culminates in a 15 hour exam during which time students compile and present responses.