AQA A-Level Art & Design: Reviewing the 2025 Exams
Course Code: T0392
£249.00
ABOUT THIS COURSE
This focused and practical course is designed for all teachers of AQA A-Level Art & Design seeking to reflect on the 2025 exam series and enhance delivery going forward. Drawing on insights from examiner feedback and student performance, this course will highlight key strengths and common pitfalls and offer strategies to help students meet assessment objectives with greater clarity and confidence. Delegates will gain practical tools and approaches to support students in developing successful portfolios and personal investigations that meet the highest standards.BENEFITS OF ATTENDING
- Understand key lessons from the 2025 exam series
- Identify common areas of weakness and how to address them
- Improve how students meet AO1–AO4 in their portfolios and investigations
- Gain ideas for developing creativity, independence, and personal engagement
- Take away practical strategies and resources for immediate classroom use
PROGRAMME
10.00am: Lessons from the 2025 Exams- Overview of examiner feedback and grade boundaries
- Common themes in student performance across endorsements
- Identifying strengths and weaknesses in student work
- Understanding what distinguishes high-level achievement
11.15am: Break
11.35am: Improving Personal Investigations (Component 1)
- Meeting AO1–AO4 through strong project development
- Encouraging purposeful experimentation and contextual understanding
- Strategies to support written elements with clarity and depth
- Marking high-level work: What does excellence look like?
- Examples and approaches to use immediately with students
12.30pm: Lunch
1.30pm: Component 2 – Excellence in the Externally Set Assignment
- Approaching the ESA with confidence and independence
- Supporting students through the preparatory period
- Meeting the assessment objectives under timed conditions
- Developing and realising personal intentions in final outcomes
- Reviewing real work to understand the top mark bands
2.10pm: Break
2.20pm: Raising Attainment in A-Level Art & Design
- Embedding AO1–AO4 across the course with clarity
- Building students’ reflective and analytical skills
- Encouraging individuality and strong personal direction
- Supporting mixed-ability classes with differentiated feedback
- Action planning for teaching and assessment in 2025–26
3.30pm: Depart
A-Level - Code: T0392
AQA A-Level Art & Design: Reviewing the 2025 Exams
COURSE LEADER
Dr Helen Jones was a Director of Teaching and Learning in Art with 12 years teaching experience. She now lectures at the University of Chester working with Art PGCE Students, and leading national CPD in the visual Arts. She has been an AQA A level and GCSE Art & Design moderator for the past 5 years.
Helen completed an MA in Art Education and then completed a Doctorate in the subject. She has been assessed as an outstanding teacher by OfSTED, achieved record residuals at both GCSE and A level and delivered at a number of Art Education conferences. She has taught art primarily in Secondary schools in the UK, but also in Finland, Italy and Spain.