Art

Departmental Aims

• To give all students the opportunity to create Art using a variety of media.
• To develop students’ awareness and knowledge of the work of other artists.
• To develop each student’s ability to draw in a variety of media.
• To give all students the chance to express ideas through visual language.
• To increase students’ awareness of the visual language of Art and how it can be most effectively used to communicate ideas.
• To achieve the best possible exam results for all students.
• To support and advise students as they explore University and future career options.

Facilities

• Superb facilities in the well-equipped Art studios.
• Specialist dark room with black and white and digital photography equipment.
• Well-equipped ceramics studio and kiln.
• Dedicated departmental IT facilities / Art library.

Senior Secondary urriculum

At Senior Secondary, students follow the Edexcel Fine Art course. This comprises two components of coursework: A personal investigation (with supporting contextual studies essay) and an exam paper.

• The Department consistently gains excellent examination results and high ‘value added’ scores.
• Students regularly progress to Art Foundation and good universities to read Architecture /Design based subjects.

Co-curricular, Enrichment, Extension and Support

• Year 12 and Year 13 students have their own Art studio where they can work and display their work.
• The Art Department offers Life Drawing one night per week in the Autumn term as an opportunity to further develop and refine drawing skills.
• Year 12 have a one day workshop with a visiting professional artist each year.
• Year 12 and Year 13 students attend a one day lecture in London to listen to and engage with artists talking about their work.
• The Department runs short study courses to European cities to visit galleries and museums. In recent years, these have included Amsterdam, Berlin and Venice.