This is a 12 week break down for the GCSE 2026 ‘FRAGILE’ theme based on Art Textiles - with powerpoint slides for each week and x3 artist/designers.
Including a sketchbook checklist leading up to the 10 hour exam
A visual example of how students should plan for their ideas/final piece with references to each assessment objectives and questions to prompt their annotation.
Full scheme of work for a whole GCSE project on ‘FRAGMENTS’
Powerpoint includes: 58 slides - This powerpoint has lessons from the beginning of a topic all the way to their final piece making. Slides include: summary of assessment objectives, references to ‘FRAGMENTS’ to introduce topic, exemplars of high level artist research pages, mindmap support to break down the topic into subtopics, templates on initial ideas, developed ideas and final piece planning. Example of how to develop ideas into a final piece outcome.
12 weeks worth of lessons: Includes drawing tasks, cardboard cutting techniques, 3D designers, sculptor artists, designing and all the steps with visual examples on how to make a 3D shoe using cardboard. All lessons include starter and plenary activities.
11 slides include: starter with answers, exemplar of a successful page with reasons why, checklist of what needs to be included on the page (divided into tough, tougher and toughest), a list of sewing techniques, template to present research page, sentence starters for annotation, keywords and plenary.
PPT includes 138 slides for a terms worth project. Mindmap with examples, moodbaord with images, observational drawing with images and examples, several artists’ with images and pages ready to print out. All lessons have a do-now and exit ticket. Lino printing lessons and a checklist for the whole book. Extra tasks with step by step observational drawing.
14 week project includes: drawing tasks of the human figure, how to draw the proportion of a human body, wire drawing and outcome, cellotape sculpture outcome. 117 slides.
12 weeks worth of lessons for KS3 students.
Still life project includes, artist analysis, drawing tasks using grid method and final outcome which OP ART can be embedded into drawing. All lessons include starter and plenary.