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Activities within the department will aim to stimulate and develop the students ability to:
- Record responses, including observations of the natural and man-made environment
- Gather resources and materials, using them to stimulate and to develop ideas
- Explore and use two or three dimensional media in a variety of scales
- Review and modify work in progress, giving reasons and explanations
- Develop an understanding and knowledge of the work of artists, crafts people and designers to inform their own work
- Respond to and evaluate art, craft and design produced by themselves or others
Students work within the department in a relaxed, friendly but structured environment. They are involved in a number of activities and approaches to art work including drawing, painting, print making, multimedia work, graphic design and sculpture.
Students are given a degree of responsibility for their own learning and provided with sketch books to assist research, planning and development of ideas.
The department offers GCSE, AS/A level Art and Design and BTEC art and Design