AS results - art & MFL teachers pls help

[springrain]

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?

If you have read this far thanks........

[LadybirdsEverywhere]

If she wants to do languages, she shouldn't drop French.

[BeckAndCall]

Art just eats time, doesn't it?

Has she looked at the workbooks of the DC in the year ahead and before that to see what they did to give her an idea of the depth and variety needed to reach an A standard? That might give her some ideas.

I wonder if there is a possibility for an independent look at her workbooks that might give some clues ( as you don't seem to trust the art teachers she has at school) - for my DD, her teachers used to cover her workbooks in post it notes on any and every idea they had about gaps - after a marking session a module could come back with literally 30 post it notes on it..... Is she getting that level of input from her teachers?

[springrain]

thanks Ladybird - that was my understanding as well, I will make sure she has a chat with the languages teachers as soon as she is back in September so she hears the implications of dropping French.

BeckandCall - agree art expands into all available time and more. From what she has heard none of the A2 students got As, although the previous year there were lots of As. So we could see if there is any work still at school from that year to look at. Plus she should get an idea from the course she is doing at art school at the moment as this is aimed at students looking to go onto foundation courses. I am reluctant to conclude that I don't trust her teachers as I have not had the opportunity to hear what they think went wrong with the coursework, however, DD has certainly lost all trust so an independent look from someone else is probably a really good idea. I have encouraged her to get some honest feedback from the course tutors where she is this week and we will try to find an art tutor at home who she can talk to about her AS work. Re feedback from her teachers on her work, she did get feedback but probably only 1 or 2 post it notes per page/piece of work, although once she had completed those bits, it would come back again with more feedback to address. So sounds like she should proactively ask what else she should do to improve work in September.

It is possible that she is shooting for something that is unrealistic (I am not arty so whilst I think her work is really good I am not best qualified to say), but if that is the case then I think her teachers should equally be telling her that. They do know she has set her heart on art school after all and had given her the impression that she was working at A grade standard.