S3 Unit 1: Review & Goal Setting

A Level Art & Design · Semester 3 Plan · Unit 1 · 1st of 4 this semester · Unit 4 →

What this unit does

This unit reopens the Personal Investigation after the summer production window. You lay out all your summer output and audit it honestly against the targets you set in June — met, missed, missing — and defend it one to one, piece by piece. You then turn the audit into goals that name specific pages, pieces and dates, and the unit closes with a written, dated, signed action plan that governs the semester to the December submission.

Where this unit sits

S3 skips U2 and U3. Recording and exploration were completed in Semester 2, so the work resumes here at review, then jumps straight to U4, the development second pass. The unit numbering (U1, U4, U5, U6) follows the pipeline stages.

Dates & span

Weeks W1–W2 (Wed 2027-09-01 → ~2027-09-08), 5 sessions. These dates are provisional and may shift once the school publishes the calendar for this period.

Sequence of work

Code	Session	Focus
U1·L1	Course reopening and the summer audit brief	All of it, against the targets
U1·L2	One to one reviews begin	Defend the work, piece by piece
U1·L3	One to one reviews continue	Met, missed, missing
U1·L4	Goals from the audit	Pages, pieces, dates
U1·L5	Written action plan, teacher directed	Dated, signed, runs to submission

Assessment

There are no attainment gates in this unit. The first, A1, sits Thu 2027-10-14 in Unit 4. One CS task falls here: CS1 Fri 2027-09-03 (summer portfolio audit against the set targets, marked piece by piece). See the full register.

Key content

• ◆ The audit marks against your June targets, not against effort — what was set in writing in June is what counts in September.
• Every summer piece must be present, annotated and judged against a named target. Unannotated work fails the audit standard and costs AO1.
• The action plan is the semester’s contract: written, dated, signed and specific.
• Your summer reading reflections open research paper draft 2 in Unit 4.