499·Art & Design · GCSE
Taking,
Not Copying
GCSE Art Knowledge Mat — Investigating Sources (PDF)
What is the difference between a page about an artist and a page that has actually changed your own work? AO1 as the objective it really is — critical understanding, not biography; what the DfE actually counts as a source, which is craftspeople and designers and even places and issues, not only artists; primary and secondary sources and why the object beats the screen; and the creative-industries requirement almost nobody teaches. The centrepiece is a worked annotation marked the way a moderator reads it, with the three phrases that earn the mark pulled out and explained. Eight terms to define and the misconceptions that cost marks. Photographed, not drawn: a nautilus shell.
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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.
One landscape A4 page on one part of the GCSE Art & Design course, anchored to the DfE's own subject content (DFE-00700-2014) and Ofqual's subject level conditions (Ofqual/15/5643) rather than a board's paraphrase — so it holds whichever specification a department follows. It carries AO1 in the regulator's words, primary against secondary sources, the creative and cultural industries requirement, and a worked annotation marked the way a moderator reads one — then the vocabulary and the misconceptions that cost marks.
Art and design is assessed entirely by non-exam assessment, so nothing on these sheets pretends to be exam practice: the question that decides the grade is the one a moderator asks of a page, and that is the question each sheet models an answer to. No artwork is reproduced anywhere, including work that is out of copyright — every figure is a drawn method, which is not copyrightable, so a department can photocopy any of these four sheets with no rights question at all.
Sold by subject: all four Art & Design sheets for one price. A knowledge organiser stores a unit and is revised from afterwards; this is meant to be on the table while the work is happening.
- Written to The DfE GCSE art and design subject content (DFE-00700-2014) and Ofqual's subject level conditions (Ofqual/15/5643), quoted; no board's specification or mark scheme. No artwork is reproduced anywhere — every figure is a drawn method, so the sheet can be photocopied with no rights question
- Intended for art teachers — on the desk during the lesson, not a student revision guide
- Extent 1 page · 8 sections
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