For AQA Fine art GCSE and Alevel Prep booklet with advice and tasks that aims to engage and prepare students for exam years [Y11 at GCSE and Y2 at Alevel] All students should achieve an archive or research bank of project ideas, techniques and mediums they intend to use with notes on experiments they can apply them to, ideas on subjects and themes to explore, and a bank of artists and artworks with accompanying research/analysis and response experiment ideas. With this they will be fully prepared for component 1. PDF included - booklet print format. Best printed A4. Can be used digitally as a guide for work to be produced. Contents: What to expect for exam year - breakdown of projects tips for being an art student art events to go to useful links for research and art-world engagement assessment objectives recap annotation guide idea generation advice artist research tips artist response tips observational drawing tips subject in art breakdown and task techniques in art breakdown and task themes and concepts in art and task artist advice and task [artist research bank] project ideas example guidance for students to create 3 project ideas for coursework component With this booklets students will be guided through summer and/or April/May/June classes and have the support, research and motivation to start their component 1’s.

Applicable to AQA creative subjects such as Fine Art, Textiles, Photography and Art Craft & Design. For GCSE and Alevel This document includes the AQA spider-diagrams, which can be shared with students, as well as notes breaking down the AQA jargon for each of these spider diagrams. This gives students and teachers an easier explanation of what is expected and what achieves marks. pptx copy included as you may want to adapt, for example adding in visual examples to the written explanations.

As seen in Summer Task Book Example of task structure and quality

As seen in Summer Task Book Example of task structure and quality

As used in Summer Task Book Example of task structure and quality

Simple explanation of the importance of mind-mapping and the basic structure of an art project To help explaining a project, the flow of a project and the importance of idea generation and mind-maps at the start of a project

Simple one page document highlighting the importance of Relevance when choosing what artist to research. Asks questions to get the student thinking about if the artist is relevant through correlating medium, style, subject or concept. Aim is to get students projects to flow and to ensure the artist influence of choice will further or inspires already established ideas. Also includes examples of a clearly relevant choices and basics of what to actually research and what not to research, highlighting the important information the student will need to reference in their project.