Deepen Creative Thinking in Art & Design
Stretch-and-Challenge Questions is a free classroom resource designed to deepen GCSE and A Level Art & Design thinking. Its adaptable AO1–AO4 question banks, critique prompts, creative-risk questions and printable challenge cards encourage students to investigate, experiment, reflect and develop ideas with greater independence.
Free for classroom and educational use. Please retain the copyright notice included in each file.
What is Included?
This resource provides flexible questions that encourage students to look beyond their first response, justify creative decisions and consider alternative possibilities. Teachers can select questions for individual tutorials, class critiques, written reflection, extension activities and independent project development.
The resource includes:
How to Use the Stretch-and-Challenge Questions
Select questions that respond to the student’s current stage rather than presenting the entire bank at once. Use prompts to open up discussion and possibilities, giving students time to think, test ideas and arrive at their own decisions instead of treating each question as requiring one correct answer.
Suitable for GCSE and A Level Art & Design
The questions can support Fine Art, Photography and Graphic Communication students across different examination boards. Teachers can adapt the editable Word version to suit particular projects, student starting points, assessment objectives and levels of challenge.
Classroom Use and Copyright
This resource may be printed, edited and used with students within your own school, college or educational setting. It must not be sold, repackaged, uploaded to another website, shared publicly or distributed commercially. Copyright remains with Portfolio to A Star and Ian Bradbury.