Creative Arts
- Mrs L Buck (Head of Creative Arts)
- Mr A Smith (Art)
Some wonderful words to inspire the reader and help them decide that a clear strength of the School is the Creative Arts department.
KS3 - Students study a variety of different topics covering all aspects of Art, Craft and Design
Each term has a different theme. Currently these are:
Year 7 - Jungles and Henri Rousseau
Year 8 - Colour and abstraction and Howard Hodkin
Year 9 - Surrealism and Rene Magritte.
KS4 - Students can opt to take either the Edexcel Syllabus in GCSE Are and Design or Art/Textiles. Both courses are challenging and popular.
Art / Textiles -THis emcompasses a wide range of skills from silk painting to sculpture. Students work on two toipcs with a project each term. Work is built up in sketchbooks and creativity is encouraged. Students make a variety of final pieces from clothing to 3D fine art pieces.
Art and Design - Students experiment with a varied range of techniques to achieve independent outcomes. Drawing is very important are are skills of developing and experimenting with ideas. This is encouraged by the use of a work journal / sketchbook which encourages independent learning. A wide variety of work is produced in both 2D and 3D.
