11+ art scholarship portfolio advice?

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Does anyone have experience of DCs applying for an 11+ art scholarship?

DD has a couple of interviews coming up at local independent schools for an art scholarship. She needs to bring a portfolio of her work and be prepared to talk about it with the art teachers.

While she does seem to have a good selection of sketches, paintings, digital images and photographs to include, I am the most unartistic person in the world and have no idea how to arrange it into a "portfolio" beyond buying a folder of the right size to put all the bits of paper into.

Is there usually meant to be a title page and narrative in a portfolio? Or just pictures in whatever order DD prefers?

The guidance from the schools covers what has to be included (e.g. examples of pencil sketching, water colour painting and some other stuff) rather than how to arrange it. DD is currently at a state primary and there's no separate art teacher who can advise on this.

my dd has not applied for an art scholarship but her best friend has. she bought a lever arch file, and arranged the artwork into groups according to what medium was used. her first page was a title page that stated her name and what school she was coming from. you then flipped the page and saw a subtitle page of what medium drawings were next (eg: a full blank page that just says the typed word 'watercolour'.) there were about 3 pieces for each subtitle from what I remember.

The girls at my school take a folder and also their sketchbooks

Normally the schools give an indication of what they want and those pieces we put in a display folder and took along the stretch book and a folder of other work.

Thanks for the useful replies! This will help DD to find a sensible way to organise her work at the weekend. The schools have said what examples they want to see (pencil sketches, watercolour, optional photos and so on) but not how to put it all together. It's probably obvious to other people but not to me.

We don't have a single simple sketchbook, more piles and piles of sketches from general notebooks, project drawings from school work, and random sketches on paper retrieved regularly from the bottom of her bag... I was thinking we could cut some of the best examples out and paste into a scrapbook for ease of showing and viewing, especially if everyone else is going to be bringing a dedicated sketch book.

I would just buy one of those folders that have plastic sleeves that you can slip A4 pieces of work into. A scrap book would look a bit messy IMO. At 11 I think they will be more interested in talent and potential than anything else.

We used something like this, you can get from amazon/range etc