Category Archives: Key Stage 4

Making a Mark: with luck.

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Dan

I am just reading Making a Mark (HMI March 2012) which is the latest report about art education in England by my old friend and colleague Ian (otherwise known as HMI). Click here for a copy. It is so overwhelmingly sensible … Continue reading →

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GCSE at SHF

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Dan

>It was good to see this highly crafted, strong, observational drawing permeating all work in this GCSE exhibition. Some things are just timeless. The department will once again be encouraging students to enter their work onto online exhibitions like the … Continue reading →

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THE Game

Posted on May 27, 2010 by Dan

>Just spent an evening with colleagues and students on the last session of the online games course. I was really impressed with so much of this. It is a curious experience because it is, on the one hand, very matter … Continue reading →

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Something significant happening here

Posted on May 24, 2010 by Dan

> Just need to put down a marker here about the work being done at Chalfonts Community College. I have written of this before but the new website seems to me to be something special. It represents four, or five, … Continue reading →

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Testing the ‘C’ boundary

Posted on October 20, 2009 by Dan

> In a daily routine of emails and meetings it was a pleasure to join art teachers and just talk about teaching art and students: like the yr 10 student whose sole expectations from life were “make up, a baby … Continue reading →

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FFT, Myths and Reality

Posted on May 10, 2009 by Dan

> There are many misconceptions about FFT data. The most prevalent myth is that somehow FFT takes performance in English Maths and Science and through some obscure psychometric testing uses this to predict aptitude in Art. In fact this is … Continue reading →

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Creative and innovative practice

Posted on June 7, 2007 by Dan

>Spent really exciting evening at a GCE, GCSE art exhibition at Chalfonts Community College. Above there is part of a students contextual study, all printed on cans which was a brilliant idea. The whole thing is set in an abstracted … Continue reading →

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Assessment burdens

Posted on June 7, 2007 by Dan

>A visit to the GCSE exhibition at Sir William Borlase’s Grammar School included an interesting discussion on the amount of work students do in art. We came to no clear conclusions but felt that the assessment burden on teachers and … Continue reading →

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Writing in art – why, who for?

Posted on January 4, 2007 by Dan

>Recently I was involved in a whole school training day about literacy across the curriculum in Key Stages 3 and 4. More explicitly it was about writing. This is sometimes a contentious subject in art and design, especially where teachers’ … Continue reading →

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End of Year: informal report

Posted on July 24, 2006 by Dan

>Looking back this has been a good year for art in bucks. I managed to see about 12 exhibitions and am full of admiration for the quality of work students are doing. It was good to see so much strong … Continue reading →

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