DDs results were 3Cs (Art, Spanish, French) and Distinction star in BTEC science. Was predicted A, A, B, Distinction. Art and Spanish were right on B boundary. Art is her first love and (we had all thought) best subject, but has been disrupted by several teacher changes and lack of consistency/guidance. Art has also eaten huge amounts of time, to detriment of languages, which she is actually pretty good at.
Original plan had been to drop the BTEC, as plan A was a foundation art course, plan B was to do Spanish and French at uni. She is doing some art courses over summer at art school and loving these. Given the results she is now thinking she will drop French and try to boost art somehow outside of school. We are also going to get the languages listening/reading/writing papers back as these were where she fell down, to see if a remark would help. I will check about remarks for art (the surprising thing was the coursework was the one that let her down) however, understand this is unlikely to happen as would be a big decision as would impact all students that had work moderated.
So, my questions are:
Is there any hope of getting art moderation checked?
What can we best do to help boost her art? Should it be a tutor, portfolio building courses or something else?
If for whatever reason art does not work out, could she still get into uni to do languages with Spanish, Art and a BTEC science, having dropped French?
Is there anything else we can do?
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springrain · 17/08/2014 21:13
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