How do I?

Construct a Portfolio?

Your Performing Arts portfolio is what will help you either gain a:

• Pass
• Merit
• Distinction

So it needs to be used and added to throughout the course. There are three things you need to remember as you go through this course and they are:

Task

Evidence
Portfolio

If you remember TEP you can’t go wrong! There are four steps to ensure you are doing the right things and we are going to look at them in more detail now …

Remember, don’t panic! Once you get your head around the way you record your evidence for Performing Arts you will be flying!

Step one: PORTFOLIO

Miss Dolan will be starting the course with:      Unit C14 Dance Development

Assignment 1 (DV8 Dance Style)
Task 1, Task 2, Task 3, Task 4

Assignment 3 (Research Project)

Task 1, Task 2

Miss Hearne will be starting the course with:  Unit D15 Costume Construction

Assignment 1 (Fabric construction)

Task 1, Task 2, Task 3

Step 2:  ONLINE BLOG (which you are already doing)

Step Three: PRACTICAL PORTFOLIO


Throughout your course you will be undertaking a lot of practical work in all three units. For this reason we have purchased for you an A2 art portfolio that you can keep together ALL your mood boards and costume designs. You can also keep flat posters for productions and anything else that may not fit neatly in your A4 lever arch file!

This A2 folder can be kept in school and will form part of your final assessment portfolio.

STEP 4: CROSS REFERENCING!

It is important to remember that your A4 lever arch folder is your main portfolio and the BLOG and the A2 PRACTICAL folder will compliment your work and act as the EVIDENCE. Therefore you have to make sure you can cross reference your folder to show your examiners where to find things you say you have done to pass!

For example, if you are working on assignment 1, task 2 of Costume Construction and in your portfolio you say:

1. ‘I have produced a mood board showing different types of fabric’,
2. You then need to make sure that in your portfolio it says ‘SEE practical folder for evidence’
3. And then label your mood board in your practical folder as ‘evidence for assignment 1, task 2 D15’