Art & Design Learning Gap Closing tasks for AO1 AO2 AO3 AO4 A'level + GCSE

Many students will have gaps in their learning, to close, for a variety of reasons.

These resources will be especially useful for y10, 11 and y12 & 13 pupils in Art & Design, but could be used by other years, too.

There are 17 Resources in total.

Centred on each AO [Assessment Objective] they rapidly oblige pupils to create art for assessment

AO1 - how to research artists and make work in reponse to them. How to annotate the responses pupils make, using key words the exam boards want.
AO2 - a range of activities centred on different materials and techniques, for pupils to do, and annotate their findings
AO3 - observations and annotations. Tasks are set from real life and secondary resources. How to develop these ideas into the pupils own personal creative responses
AO4 - developing and finishing pupils own personal responses, and preparing these for display, and assessment.

Each AO is split into separate, chronologically sequenced tasks, starting with AO1.

Each set has images, text and a set of 4 ‘independent study’ questions. All have literacy support materials and key words to use.

Each task sheet is in word, to make them easy to upload and send home electronically or printed, and/or their content could easily be cut and pasted into your own lesson slides.

There has been much talk in the Art & Design teacher community about how to routinely close the gaps created in pupils learning - so I have put these resources together to try to assist with that big task!