to think it's wrong school has cancelled the 4 day AS art exam?

[Cuddleczar]

Exactly that. It was due to start today and last 4 days, during which they complete their final piece. It meant they missed four days of other lessons but they would have got the full attention of the art teachers in the art department (other art lessons were going to be cancelled). This normally happens every year. I've checked the examining board website (AQA) and it doesn't seem to be specific about how the final piece is carried out. My DC has come back from school very upset--her art teacher told her as a result she might get a lower grade, possibly even not pass. Apparently the head of sixth form told someone this was because "art is not so important as other lessons".

That's not to say, but he way, that this isn't very poor organisation in this particular case. If school have always done the Art project in this way, it is wrong to change it at the last minute. Apart from anything else, it doesn't leave enough time between now and whenever the project should have been submitted for it to be done properly! Sounds like the Head or SLT have worked up to what has been happening and have decided that other subjects are suffering due to this intense burst of a single subject at this late stage of the year.

dd has hers over 2 days, - 12 hours, for which there was hardly any notice. the time tables kept being emailed saying To be Arranged

Having just returned from the Easter holidays, there seems to be an obvious way to have 4 uninterupted days for Art. Though I conceed that it is a "big ask" for the Art staff and students to give up 4 days of holiday and it doesn't help the OP to suggest it now.

A-level art never had 4 days of exams at our school, it was over two days, not sure if it was consecutive. TBH it sounds like there's been a mixup in booking rooms or arrangements with other faculties.

Personally I'd contact the school in a calm fact-finding way, just to find out when the exam is. I don't think it'll affect grades as much as the teacher is saying, but I agree that working in a classroom with another class going on will take a bit more discipline.

And this is what happened. We wrote to school and asked what was going to happen, how they were going to put it right. Now, it has been rescheduled for later this week, but only two days but if they need more time they can take it home. Still suspicious about some of the comments that were said to have been made by teachers of other subjects, but no hard evidence so we didn't go there.

Thanks for the update OP. Hope the two day immersion helps your DD. Good luck to her.

If it is like most exams, it shouldn't be invigilated by the teacher who taught it anyway, so the art teachers should not be present. It would be very bad practice if she was.

And you can't just cancel all other art lessons either. That wouldn't be legal.

I wonder if your DD had the wrong end of the stick from the start.

Take it home? For an invigilated exam?

How does that work then?