124·Art & Design · GCSE
Year 11
Art & Design
Scheme of Work
GCSE Art & Design Scheme of Work — Year 11 PDF
Sixty-one pages, five units rather than six — the externally set assignment cannot be released before 2 January, and study leave takes the rest. A full exam-season calendar, a moderation-preparation page and guidance on access arrangements sit alongside the two components: the portfolio and the externally set assignment.
- 1aThe Portfolio Project: Finding the Question
- 1bThe Portfolio Project: Sustained Development
- 2aResolving and Presenting the Portfolio
- 2bThe Externally Set Assignment: the Preparatory Period
- 3aThe Period of Sustained Focus, and What Comes Next

Ten sections per unit, matching Year 10's shape exactly. Five units, not six: the portfolio (60% of the qualification) is built and resolved across the first three, then the externally set assignment (40%) runs the same investigation cycle compressed into six weeks under supervised conditions.
The book is deliberately board-neutral — checked so it never states a raw mark total, how the ten hours of supervised time may be split, or the number of externally set starting points, because those vary by specification and a wrong assumption there invalidates an assessment. What a department must confirm locally is named explicitly, with a single page to fill in from their own board in September.
Back matter includes a full year calendar tied to real exam-season constraints, a moderation-preparation page, and guidance on access arrangements, safeguarding and the substances that need a written risk assessment when a student chooses their own process.
- Written to The GCSE subject content for art and design (DfE, 2015) and the four assessment objectives set by Ofqual (Ofqual/15/5643)
- Intended for heads of art, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it
- Extent 61 pages · 18 sections
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