Year 1 - Online GCSE Photography for Home Ed - Mondays 11.15am (starts Sept 2026)

The course will be taught in live online lessons.
There are weekly online group lessons with around 6 or 7 pupils in a group.
Lessons are live online and recordings are available if you can't make a class at the time.
Lessons are £17.50 each paid for in half term blocks of 6 or 7 weeks.

What do I provide when your child becomes part of my GCSE photography group lessons?
Live online lessons, access to online video tutorials made by me and tailored to their project, lesson recordings, weekly personalised feedback to each student, artist research resources, portfolio template, written resources and templates. Email updates to parents and carers with action plans and photoshoot plans.

-What will you be taught for the Photography GCSE?

In these online lessons you will be creating a coursework portfolio which is one project.
It is a digital portfolio on Googleslides.
We are starting on the theme of photography skills - composition and camera settings - which will then lead onto the main theme of storytelling about you and your identity - a theme which can be adapted to your personal interests.

There are 4 assessment objectives in Photography GCSE that the course will be guided by as you will be marked using these Assessment Objectives for your Photography GCSE. GCSE Photography is about more than taking photographs - it is also about looking at the work of other artists and photographers and using that to inspire your own personal style.

In the course you will be asked to create by:

-Looking at other artists, photographers and sources for inspiration for your own work

-Refining work through experimentation with techniques and processes

-Capturing and recording your ideas through photography, film, drawing and other media.

-Creating final pieces that are personal responses and developed using your own personal style and ideas.

How much writing is required?
Writing is part of the coursework portfolio for GCSE photography as you analyse other artists photography, evaluate your own work about your aims, what your work means and how you can improve.
I provide writing frameworks for this and the portfolio is digital on Googleslides which means writing will be typed rather than hand written.
The practical GCSE Photography exam requires no writing as it is more practical in that you will be creating a piece of artwork (the exam prep will require some writing in the same way as the coursework portfolio)

-What equipment will you use?
For your Zoom lessons please have a device with a camera so I can see you and a microphone so we can talk to each other

• A phone or camera to take photos on during your lesson. DSLR camera is preferable - you can get one second hand as well A laptop with wifi that you can use for editing photographs
• A camera tripod

• A cheap light with different colours
  I can email you links to equipment required

• The Rough Course Timeline

Year 1 - Sept 2026 - July 2027
Creating Coursework Portfolio which is worth 60 percent of your mark

Year 2 – Sept 2027– April 2028
Winter term – Developing, completing and refining your coursework portfolio from year 1

Spring term – You will be given the exam question in January and then spend spring term preparing for the exam

March /April 2028– The 2 day practical exam is taken in April of year 2 at a Tutors and Exams Centre in UK (exact dates for 2026 photography exam TBC)

May - The work is then marked and moderated and you will receive your marks on GCSE results day

• What is the exam and where will the exam be taken?

OCR will be the awarding body for the GCSE and the coursework and the exam will be marked according to OCR guidelines, marking scheme and specification.

The exam will be a two day practical exam where you will make a final piece. The preparation for this will have been done in the previous term from January to April and you will have a plan of what you are going to do and how you are going to do it.

You will take the GCSE Photography Exam at one of the ‘Tutors and Exams’ Centres, they prefer to have your tutor specialist photography tutor present and as I will be in in Doncaster & Coventry for the exam then I will ask you to book it there.
The fee for the 2 day exam is separately payable to Tutors and Exams and is approx £450 for two days and you get a ten percent discount booking through me as your tutor.

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