Art Department
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. Pupils achievements are celebrated with exhibitions, performances and productions which take place throughout the year.
3 classrooms offering a huge variety of disciplines from ceramics to digital photography
Three full time teachers of Art – the teaching focus being key stage 3 and 4 GCSE Art and design.
At key stage three, year 7 are taught art twice per week. Years 8 and 9 are taught once per week ( 50 minute lesson).
A key stage four years 10 and 11 are taught art three lessons per week (3 x 50 minute lessons). In years 10 and 11 art is only taught to pupils who chose this as one of their GCSE options.
Intake at GCSE is roughly 115 year 10 pupils and 115 year 11 pupils. This is three times the national average for GCSE art intake.
The GCSE Art course is run by AQA and allows flexibility in its delivery giving the teacher license to structure the course in accordance. The wide variety of differing materials in this well resourced department results in a wide diversity of creative potential.
Art is a popular course and pupils often carry on their study into post 16 education
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