Art and Design

Overall Intent

A Curriculum that is accessible, engaging, and creative with a strong focus on the development of skills, acquired knowledge and quality of outcome through a variety of disciplines. We want the curriculum to foster a love of art, whilst instilling confidence in students own ideas, abilities, and skills. We want the curriculum to provide the skills required to execute ideas in a variety of mediums and introduce students to a wide variety of creative disciplines to show the different facets to our subject for example, drawing, painting, printmaking, 3D, photography, illustration, and textiles. Through the curriculum we will also raise awareness to diversity, covering artists from the past and present, different genders and social classes whilst introducing career paths and opportunities if choosing to enter the creative industries.

The Magic of Art

• Within art anything feels possible, we arm our students with the intelligence of imagination and as imagination has no limits, we are constantly stimulating progress through our curriculum.
• Art education at HGS is not seen as a luxury and it is available to all and is accessible to everyone.
• It develops motor skills, language skills, social skills, risk taking, problem solving and inventiveness.
• We encourage students to think freely and develop creativity and expression.
• Creativity is essential for creating well-rounded, well-prepared learners and leaders.
• Developing creative intelligence enables students to develop the world around them and can also be used to explore difficult concepts from history, politics, science, and maths in a visual manner; it therefore connects students with their own culture and the wider world.
• Students can explore their own interests and passions and communicate their own ideas, which in turn motivates as students are heads of their own destiny.
• The world needs the imaginative minds of young people for the development of tomorrow, and we are working with passion to ensure we achieve this through sharing a love of art.

Key Strengths in the curriculum

HGS follows the AQA specification in Art & Design

• Excellent creative practitioners who are very passionate, supportive and flexible in terms of subjects they can teach (we all love our subject)
• Many teachers produce and exhibit their own work
• We book the national trends for recruitment, retention and results
• We are highly valued in school
• Complete freedom and individuality are encouraged at key stage four and five
• All pupils can access art and design
• A diverse range of subject specialisms across teaching staff
• We are very different from other subjects within the school curriculum and students like that
• We have excellent technician support
• We celebrate the success of students regularly through exhibitions, display and the use of social media
• Our breadth of extracurricular opportunities through competitions, visiting artists, workshops, trips & art clubs
• Cross curricular support with stage sets, Remembrance Day, history, school Christmas cards and music

Curriculum overviews

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