Subject Choices for GCSE Options group two
Opportunities for Playful Scholarship
Skills for the future
There are trips in Year 10 and 11 to a range of venues such as Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Kew Gardens, National Portrait Gallery to name but a few. There is a focus on experimentation, being playful with materials. Skills development and workshops allow you to explore and extend your use of a range of materials. You will have the opportunity to contribute to whole school art related events and attend any art related talks and lectures. We offer a huge array of Art and Design clubs as well as the lunchtime drop in sessions. You are encouraged to keep a small sketchbook at home and to document anything related to Art and Design: galleries you visit, things of interest to you, doodles and sketches, podcasts you listen to, magazine articles and books you have read, television programmes.
Art and Design is always open ended, so there are no right or wrong answers. The creative and thoughtful approach that this encourages, builds many skills that employers and university admission secretaries are interested in seeing. Often you will be asked to use your artwork to explore other areas of interest, eg: science, politics, music, helping you to understand the connection between areas of the curriculum and the wider world. Your analytical skill will be developed and you will be able to reflect fluently by the end of the course, on artworks you have studied.
