128·Art & Design · A Level
A Level Art & Design
Scheme of Work
Forty-eight pages across two years, board-neutral by construction: every requirement comes from the DfE subject content for art and design or from Ofqual's subject level conditions, and no specification is reproduced anywhere. The personal investigation runs from the summer of Year 12 with the written element begun as a one-page argument and redrafted against the work twice. What genuinely differs between boards — the objective weightings inside Ofqual's 20–30 per cent ranges, the preparatory period, and whether a word count is set — is collected in one table rather than guessed at.
- 1aBuilding a Practice: Recording, Media and the Habit of Enquiry
- 1bThe Sustained Project: Working From a Theme
- 31c Finding the Question: the Personal Investigation Begins
- 2aThe Personal Investigation: Sustained Development and the Written Element
- 2bResolving and Presenting the Personal Investigation
- 62c The Externally Set Assignment: the Preparatory Period and the Supervised Period
Ten sections per unit, in the same order every time. Weeks rather than single lessons, because A level art is taught in sessions of two or three hours.
The subject content sets no topics, which is why a scheme of work matters more in this subject than in most: almost every decision about what is actually taught belongs to the department. What the content does require is that the study is integrated and that A level allows greater depth than AS, and this scheme takes extended development of a theme as its spine.
Year 12 builds a practice with no deadline attached to an outcome. Year 13 spends it.
- Written to The DfE subject content for GCE AS and A level art and design, and Ofqual's GCE subject level conditions
- Intended for heads of department, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it
- Extent 48 pages · 14 sections
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