11·Art & Design · KS3 to A Level
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Secondary art department handbook — KS3 to A Level
One book for the whole department — the head of art who has to lead it and the teacher who has to teach it on Monday. Built on what AQA, Edexcel, OCR and Eduqas actually require, not on what everyone assumes they require.
Everything else this site has for Art & Design: Art & Design teaching resources
- 1Curriculum
- 2Craft
- 3Independence
- 4Evidence
- 5Standard
One purchase covers the school that buys it. Print it, copy it, hand it round your department. Not for passing to other schools or uploading anywhere.

Art is assessed holistically, by the people who taught it, against four objectives that carry equal weight. That single fact makes it unlike almost every other subject in the building — and it is why a whole-school marking policy arriving in the art room so often measures the wrong thing.
This booklet is written for the whole department at once. A head of art can read it as a curriculum and quality-assurance document; a teacher can open it at the page they need on a Monday. The four boards are compared from their own specifications rather than from summaries, and where they differ, the difference is stated rather than blended away.
- Written to
- AQA, Edexcel, OCR and Eduqas specifications & the Ofsted art and design research review
- Intended for
- heads of art, subject leaders and every teacher in the department
- Extent
- 93 pages · 88 sections
—·Look inside
Real pages, straight from the PDF
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—·Contents
All 88 sections
Taken from the booklet’s own contents page, so the page numbers are the real ones.