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Expressive Arts
The work of the Expressive arts faculty keeps the needs of the pupil’s central to our planning and delivery. We seek to allow pupils to establish a sense of identity and ownership and to strive to reach the limits of their potential. We value the individuality of each pupil and help each pupil value that individuality in others. The faculty strives to develop each pupil’s audio and visual literacy and to have the confidence to use this knowledge not only as a means of communicating their ideas and feelings but to also make sense of the audio and visual elements of the everyday world.
Through the universal language of expressive arts the faculty wants to provide a vehicle through which the simplest to the most complex ideas can be expressed. We want to express issues of equal opportunities by allowing for freedom of expression – such a freedom is a prerequisite of any community which promotes equal opportunity, the symbolic language of the arts knows no gender, racial, ethnic, cultural, class or social bounds. It has the scope to meet the needs of all pupils.
The Expressive Arts faculty comprises of Art and Design, Music and Drama. Pupils are taught once per week at key stage 3. At key stage 4 pupils can choose any of these three courses as an optional GCSE which is then taught three times a week. Additionally, after school and dinnertime clubs run to offer pupils additional time in these subjects.
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