To do my daughters GCSE course work?

This.
You are just trying to help your child get through this extremely stressful time. In my view it’s not cheating, it’s not teaching your dd to give up on stuff and there’s def no need to report the teacher/school to JCQ.
It’s one drawing out of the very very many your dd did on her own for one subject out of the 10 she is doing.

lovewinr123 Why don’t you get a picture of the person you are trying to draw. Do a grid of squares over it then do a similar grid on blank paper and draw what is in each square onto the paper. Hope that explains what I mean. A lot,of artists so that watch this video

Life is so incredibly hard as a parent of a child with ADHD and autism. Don’t be too hard on yourself. Remember, people with no experience of your life will not understand and will make judgments.
Id try my very best to use the sketch you’ve done as a launching pad to your daughter producing something of her own. Having the sketch there as a safety net in case she can’t do it may well be what she needs to be able to produce something herself with less pressure.
If you need to use the sketch though, just quietly use it and be kind to yourself about it.
your daughter has so many barriers to overcome to even get to the same starting point as the others. Giving her one bit of help here will just remove one of those barriers, not put her ahead.
as a fellow mum of a daughter with ADHD and autism, I see you. You are doing your best in a hard situation. You are a good Mum x

But with all your “help” your daughter is still in the same place… it’s still undone right?

So maybe time to change methods. Has she genuinely failed to hand in a gcse coursework to date (even at the very last minute)? Why are you so convinced she wouldn’t get it done? She’s still 5 days out from the deadline- to most ADHD minds that plenty of time!

Don’t feel you need to justify yourself OP. I totally understand what you are doing and why. You have good intentions and it’s admirable .

Do you have ADHD yourself? I do, and this isn’t how to support someone with ADHD. Unless you want to completely overwhelm them.

This might not be helpful at all for GCSE level art, but if my non-artistic children ever needed to draw a copy of a picture or a photograph I used to get them to turn the original image upside down and just copy the lines/shading in the upside down image. When they turned their work the right way up they were often amazed that they’d managed to capture the shape of the dinosaur/tree/building so well. I think it’s something to do with the way your brain interprets known images versus abstract images. Anyway, if your daughter has a mental block about not being able to capture the image the way she wants, then maybe getting the outline in by using the upside down technique might help her.

I also think with the current attitudes towards anyone with any kind of SEN/disability and work/benefits that you should do as much as you can to help your dd long term. Help her get the gcses because she needs to be in the best position with as many qualifications as possible for a potential future without the benefits safety net.

OP you are just trying to support your daughter with one thing in one subject. If it means your dd can get this project done and then focus on the rest of her GCSE’s then let her use your drawing. You are not teaching her to cheat and you are not teaching her to give up - you are supporting her through a very stressful time with one small thing.
Schools across the country are meant to follow exam board guidelines on the administration and teaching of coursework. Some schools are really strict on this others are more flexible. I know from experience that some teachers go above and beyond to help their students secure a good grade.

GCSEs are NOTHING like the exams I sat.

we had to study. Nowadays the kids are told exactly how to answer the questions as the markers/board want them to and if they deviate, they get the answer wrong.

@LolaLouise your dd isn’t doing anything with this art qualification, but if she passes it’s just a tick in the box to the next step.

my ds is 20-‘ and we’re on the other side of GCSEs and A levels, as long as your dd is ok with finishing this off, then go for it.

GCSEs are only important in that they pave the way to higher education.

we help our kids.

Its becausing of cheating that many GCSEs have no coursework now and many students with SEN have extra stress in more exams.

So much ‘I’ and ‘we’ in this. It’s not your coursework it’s your daughters!! Just back off, you must be completely stressing her out at the minute. I’m stressed for her - you seem to be making this really hard and adding levels of complexity that she may not have added herself to the project if you hadn’t got so involved.

Art GCSE isn’t just about your artistic skill, it’s about your ability to reflect on you work and to use it to plan your direction. It won’t matter if the portrait she’s drawn is awful, it may even gain her marks if she includes a reflection to say she knows that her portrait isn’t realistic in the way that the original is and that she has decided to go down the abstract route but keep some of the key aspects of the portrait such as colours, ratios or shapes.

Also if she’s struggling to draw the portrait has she tried the method where you draw a grid over the original and then break drawing the picture down into those individual squares? She’d just need a ruler and a light pencil so may be easier than tracing if you have no suitable paper. Breaking the photo into squares and focusing on copying each section as a stand alone area can help with getting ratios and proportions right, if she can’t get her face to look realistic that might be why? It can also help to turn the original upside down and copy it that way as the brain is then less likely to try and draw based on what it thinks a face looks like, rather than what it can see, and more likely to draw what is actually there. I have adhd and both of those techniques helped me when I did my art gcse.

It must be really hard when you just want to help your child op. You wont be around for ever though, and she needs to do things herself, please dont teach her that cheating is the way to achieve things.

Why can’t she do that? You’re still interfering. Let her work out what she needs to get this finishing.

I can’t believe you’ve been helping her as much as you have tbh. When she wakes up it should be totally up to her whether she does this portrait or not, and how she goes about it. Even your “encouragement” and advice around tracing options are too much help. These are the skills we learn as young people going through the education system, as much as the subject knowledge itself. She’s going to be totally useless in a work environment if she’s being hand held to this extent. Maybe you need to be less perfectionist and she won’t get so anxious about things. Judging her portrait as less good than the one you did. Let her be a bit crap and fail in this subject and let that be ok.

I can see why but I think you've got completely lost in the detail and need to take a break from helping her and think about the bigger picture. You doing her work is absolutely pointless. So is micromanaging it all for her. She'll lose confidence this way.

If i left her to it alone she wouldnt have finished the work, but i havent done anything for her until last night, which she doesnt even know about. Her work is all her own at the minute

Start by believing in her first. Have faith in her ability to work it out for herself. And if she fails, then you can talk through what went wrong for next time.

As someone with ADHD, my parents’ belief in my ability and their lack of interference in my studies, except when I reached out for help (usually at 11 night before an exam), was the best thing they did for me during my GCSEs and a levels. They never told me off for leaving things so last minute (as they knew what I was like), but gave me encouragement and focus to what I could get done in the time I had left.

You’ve crossed the line with the amount of support. I’m well aware how hard it is but this isn’t helping.

You don't need to trace!!!! Google graphite transfer

There’s a lot of people who are talking about letting their kid learn about consequences and letting them fail, but I don’t think they realize that a lot of adhd kids start off assuming that they will fail, because they are so used to falling. So the only thing they learn by failing again is that it was pointless to even try in the first place.
I have taken my daughter out of mainstream school and put her in a vocational college doing something fun and low impact just so she gets used to what it feels like to not fail.