GCSE Art and Design
Summer 2026 will be the final full assessment opportunity for this qualification. A resit opportunity for Unit 2 will be available in January 2027, subject to demand.
From September 2025, learners must not be entered onto this qualification in Year 10, they should be entered for GCSE Art and Design - Teaching from 2025
The WJEC GCSE in Art and Design is designed to provide engaging, challenging, coherent and meaningful learning experiences through a flexible structure that supports the sequential and incremental development of creative practice.
This rewarding and immersive programme of study broadens experience, develops imagination and technical skills, fosters creativity and promotes personal and social development.
The focus of the specification is to nurture an enthusiasm for Art, Craft and Design and, through a broad introductory foundation programme, to develop critical, practical and theoretical skills that enable students to gain a holistic understanding of a range of practices and contexts in the visual arts, crafts and design fields.
This linear specification provides the flexibility and capacity to build and extend the breadth and depth of student’s creative practice and offers the choice of a broad-based general course, plus seven distinct title options:
Art, Craft and Design
Fine Art
Graphic Communication
Textile Design
Three-Dimensional Design
Photography
Critical and Contextual Studies
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