Art, Craft & Design and Photography

Art Craft and Design

The creative industry is the fastest growing area in business this decade. It’s the perfect time to engage with creativity and tap into a massive range of potential career opportunities. Through choosing one of these courses, students will grow as confident, working artists. Students will not only scaffold learning with practical skills and techniques in a productive environment, but will also learn how to present thoughts and information clearly and confidently, a skill which is advantageous in any job.

Photography

Coursework is completed throughout the course and involves working with digital cameras and graphic editing apps including Adobe Photoshop to produce photographic imagery. Through research and analysis students will work in a sketchbook to gain valuable insight into how photographers and artists work. From their research students will develop their own ideas and produce a personal response to their studies.

Throughout the course students will be taught to experiment with composition, studio lighting, cameras and editing. As part of the course, students are expected to take photographs in a variety of settings, including open-air locations that will link to your research, analysis and artists. You may be instructed to search out suitable settings/locations for photographs outside of school in your own time. Organised trips to varied locations will be a part of the course allowing for further personal development and experimentation.

Core Subject Principles

Dignity and Respect

We enable pupils to feel confident and supported whilst expanding their understanding and skills. During KS3, pupils will follow a scheme of learning designed to build on key skills and subject knowledge preparing them for future courses. We develop pupils’ respect for the Art through exploring a wide range of Artists, Designers and Craftsmen, we encourage students to respect themselves and peers through creating a learning environment where they feel able to express themselves and their opinions.

Wisdom, Knowledge and Skills

We strive to build students skills and deepen students understanding of Art, Craft and Design through continually building on prior learning and knowledge and challenging students in a supportive and encouraging environment. We promote cross curricular, transferable skills and explore a wide range of career paths for future artists. Students are encouraged to be independent through research, enquiry, refinement, and reflection. Students will be taught to use subject specific terminology and taught how their skills would be applied in industry.

Hope and Aspiration

Schemes are developed to deliver a wide range of skills that can be built on and explored further throughout key stage 3. Schemes will allow students to explore the importance of art throughout history and as part of our futures. Students are encouraged to stretch and challenge themselves, forming their own opinions and be able to independently apply their knowledge of artists and designers to their own work.

Art, Craft and Design and Photography