GCSE Art and Design - Teaching from 2025
Teaching and learning can require teachers and learners to engage with sensitive issues. To support practitioners delivering our Made-for-Wales qualifications, we have developed a new guidance document on delivering sensitive topics in the classroom. You can access our guidance via the following link.
Available to download from WJEC Portal by the Examinations Officer from 1 December 2026. The assignment is available as a digital version only with no hardcopy despatch. Exams Officers will be able to download a digital copy of the Externally Set Assignment paper from 7.30am on the 1 December, which can be made available to teachers to download onto their own devices. Unit 1 portfolio must be completed and submitted by learners before Unit 2 Externally Set Assignment is presented to learners in the spring term of the final year of study. Digital copies of the Externally Set Assignment paper and resources must not be released to candidates before 2 January.
The GCSE Art and Design qualification will support the Curriculum for Wales by:
- Supporting the statements of what matters, giving learners the opportunity to
- develop artistic skills and knowledge
- respond and reflect as both artist and audience
- be innovative and bold in developing their own artistic identity.
- Supporting the principles of progression by giving learners the opportunity to:
- make links in the creative process as they explore and innovate
- create more sophisticated work
- refine skills and techniques
- gain confidence and resilience in giving and receiving feedback.
- Supporting the key considerations for Art and Design by giving learners the opportunity to:
- experiment and develop work through a range of resources, materials, techniques and processes
- produce a range of outcomes and to demonstrate a personal and creative response.
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