This course presents you with exciting and challenging opportunities to learn much more about what it means to be a creative and imaginative visual artist, and to grow in this way throughout the course. The course is designed to build on the skills and enthusiasm that students bring. We will help you acquire new skills, broaden your knowledge, and help give you the confidence you need to achieve your full potential in this rich and exciting subject area. The Art & Design department is a lively and friendly teaching and learning environment, where individual ideas, experimentation and risk-taking are encouraged. All the staff have a wide range of specialist interests and expertise. Though you will possibly have one or two main teachers there is the flexibility for you to try a range of methods of working, and the staff operate as a team to share knowledge and to support one another. There are four studios, which are organised to support a wide range of specialist study areas, including painting, drawing, mixed media, collage, digital graphics, photography, textiles, sculpture, ceramics and printmaking. You will develop skills using a range of approaches to record images, such as observation, analysis, expression and imagination. You will also explore and gain an understanding of conventions and genres such as figurative, abstract and symbolic. You will carry out independent research which you will write up and present in an essay format in Year 13. Teaching and learning methods include practical work across a wide range of activities, exhibition research, reading and reflective writing, library and internet research, one-to-one guidance and support, and also whole-group discussion. The range of approaches students can use to progress their coursework ideas can include selections and combinations from: drawing, painting, printing, etching, illustration, ceramics, digital photography and digital media and mixed media. How is it assessed There is regular monitoring of work through group discussions and individual assessment, both verbal and written. Students complete projects which are internally assessed and moderated by a moderator from the exam board. We offer a programme of support for students when preparing your portfolios for application to art foundation and degree courses.
About Education Provider
| Region | East Midlands |
| Local Authority | Lincolnshire |
| Ofsted Rating | Good |
| Gender Type | Mixed |
| Address | Park Road, Holbeach, Spalding, PE12 7PU |
This course presents you with exciting and challenging opportunities to learn much more about what it means to be a creative and imaginative visual artist, and to grow in this way throughout the course. The course is designed to build on the skills and enthusiasm that students bring. We will help you acquire new skills, broaden your knowledge, and help give you the confidence you need to achieve your full potential in this rich and exciting subject area. The Art & Design department is a lively and friendly teaching and learning environment, where individual ideas, experimentation and risk-taking are encouraged. All the staff have a wide range of specialist interests and expertise. Though you will possibly have one or two main teachers there is the flexibility for you to try a range of methods of working, and the staff operate as a team to share knowledge and to support one another. There are four studios, which are organised to support a wide range of specialist study areas, including painting, drawing, mixed media, collage, digital graphics, photography, textiles, sculpture, ceramics and printmaking. You will develop skills using a range of approaches to record images, such as observation, analysis, expression and imagination. You will also explore and gain an understanding of conventions and genres such as figurative, abstract and symbolic. You will carry out independent research which you will write up and present in an essay format in Year 13. Teaching and learning methods include practical work across a wide range of activities, exhibition research, reading and reflective writing, library and internet research, one-to-one guidance and support, and also whole-group discussion. The range of approaches students can use to progress their coursework ideas can include selections and combinations from: drawing, painting, printing, etching, illustration, ceramics, digital photography and digital media and mixed media. How is it assessed There is regular monitoring of work through group discussions and individual assessment, both verbal and written. Students complete projects which are internally assessed and moderated by a moderator from the exam board. We offer a programme of support for students when preparing your portfolios for application to art foundation and degree courses.
