Art has an age-old cultural significance. The present requirements of art teaching have developed over many years to meet the needs of its essentially cultural role. With the rapid worldwide expansion of visual forms of communication and an increasing emphasis on design, the role of art as a subject in school has widened.
From Foundation to GCSE in Years 10 and 11, art gives an understanding of how the visual world works as well as nurturing our students' enjoyment of creative effort. All these demands are catered for in purpose-built art rooms and a pottery suite. Here the students can experiment through the mediums of clay, sculpture, print painting and drawing, the fundamental aspects of the world about them in relation to their own experience.
DESIGN TECHNOLOGY
Design Technology prepares pupils to participate in tomorrow's rapidly changing technologies. In the early years the pupils are building manipulative skills and experimenting with different materials. The older pupils use the design process to work through their projects - identifying the need - writing a brief - researching the problem and available materials - writing a specification - making detailed sketches from which they produce a final idea, culminating with the manufacture of the product.
The design process is introduced at an early stage with greater emphasis being placed on it from Year 6 upwards.
Problem solving & skill building are an important feature.
Great emphasis is placed on both Design & Make stages of the process.
All areas of the subject are covered to cater for all interests including resistant materials, textiles, food technology, systems and control and graphics. At G.C.S.E. we offer Graphic Products.
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