Cambridge Primary Art & Design gives learners a platform to express themselves, sparking imagination, creativity and developing transferable skills. Students explore and push boundaries to become reflective, critical and decisive thinkers. They learn how to articulate personal responses to their experiences. (Cambridge Assessment International Education, n.d.)

Students develop creative skills that will help with many aspects of their future learning and development. They will:

• learn to see themselves as artists and become increasingly reflective and independent
• develop the skills needed to express creative ideas and to communicate visually
• understand their place and the place of others in a creative, innovative and interconnected world.

Cambridge Primary Art & Design is taught through a broad range of investigative, artmaking and reflective activities. These include a number of study areas, for example painting, print making, model making or digital art. This course supports progression to Cambridge Lower Secondary Art & Design.

Cambridge Lower Secondary Art & Design course gives learners a platform to express themselves, sparking imagination, creativity and developing transferable skills. Students explore and push boundaries to become reflective, critical and decisive thinkers. They learn how to articulate personal responses to their experiences and to think about how their artistic development will support them throughout all areas of their education. (Cambridge Assessment International Education, n.d.)

Cambridge Lower Secondary Art & Design students:

• learn to see themselves as artists and become increasingly reflective and independent
• develop the skills needed to express creative ideas and to communicate visually
• understand their place and the place of others in a creative, innovative and interconnected world
• make increasingly informed decisions about the art and design they encounter, engage with and produce
• understand the role of creative arts in society
• analyse and reflect on creative intentions and ideas, practices and outputs from different perspectives.

Cambridge Lower Secondary Art & Design course assumes no prior knowledge and starts from the basics. It requires 2 – 3 hours per week of study time for your child to complete Year 7, 8 or 9.

Cambridge IGCSE Art & Design encourages the development of personal response by stimulating imagination, sensitivity, conceptual thinking, powers of observation and analytical ability. You will gain confidence and enthusiasm as you develop technical skills in two- and three-dimensional form and composition, and will be able to identify and solve problems in visual and tactile forms. An ideal foundation for further study, Cambridge IGCSE Art & Design also develops a greater awareness of the role played by the visual arts in society and in history, broadening cultural horizons and individual experience. (Cambridge Assessment International Education, n.d.)

• Painting and related media
• Print making
• Three-dimensional design
• Photography, digital and lens-based media
• Graphic communication
• Textiles and fashion

Cambridge IGCSE Art & Design requires about 130 hours of study. The number of hours needed may vary depending on your previous experience of the subject.

We do not expect learners starting this course to have previously studied Art & Design.

The Cambridge International AS & A Level Art and Design course considers expression and communication. You will gain an understanding of visual perception and aesthetic experience, and the ways in which art and design creates a language of its own.

Most of the work for this course is practical, so that you can develop your abilities of observation and analysis of the visual world, sensitivity, skill, personal expression and imagination. You will also learn how to relate your skills to an enhanced knowledge of your own cultures, past and present, as well as an appreciation of practical design problems. (Cambridge Assessment International Education, n.d.)

• Fine art
• Graphic communication
• Three-dimensional design
• Textiles and fashion

Cambridge International AS Level Art and Design requires about 180 hours of study, and Cambridge International A Level Art and Design requires about 360 hours of study.

These figures are for guidance only. The number of hours needed may vary depending on your previous experience of the subject.

We recommend that students who are beginning this course should have previously completed a Cambridge International GCSE course, or the equivalent, in Art and Design.

Grade B/6 or above in Art and Design at IGCSE or the equivalent is required before starting Cambridge International AS & A Level Art and Design. It is also necessary that all A-Level students have IGCSE English Language, or the equivalent, at Grade C/4 or above.