The Creative Arts Department brings together Art, Music and Drama in a creative and enjoyable environment providing a broad and balanced Creative Curriculum at Key Stage three, four and five. Our aims are as follows:
Vision Statement
The aim of the Creative Arts Faculty is to develop creative, curious, independent and reflective students who enjoy taking risks through experimenting in Art, Music and Drama.
Students are encouraged to have not only a love and enjoyment for creativity but also the language to express themselves and talk about their work.
Through exciting experiences in Art, Music and Drama students are encouraged to learn skills that help to build them as lifelong learners in the wider world.
The aim of our curriculum is to provide
- A balanced art, music and drama curriculum
- To engage pupils with creativity from a range of genres and influences
- To encourage pupils with the confidence to express themselves and perform.
Implementation – The curriculum is to be implemented through engaging lessons, enrichment programme, a broad extra-curricular programme, effective assessment and the opportunity to work individually and collaborate with others.
Resources – We are very lucky to have excellent facilities and specialist rooms including recording studios, music teaching rooms, a drama studio and specialist art rooms. The main theatre is used for annual school productions, which are organised within the faculty annually and we have many other events such as art exhibitions and musical soirees.
Key Stage 3
Art
- Everyday Objects – students learn about use of shape, tone and line. Exploration of colour and colour mixing
- A Bugs Life – printing, drawings skills and learning to look and understand the work of artists. Students create their own exciting 3D bug
- Alien Fish – a further look at the use of colour and the introduction of pattern Exploration of clay and using contemporary artists to influence their own designs
- Food Glorious Food – an exciting and imaginative exploration of all things yummy. Further developing drawing and making skills
Music
- Elements of music – working on listening, performing and composing skills
- Video Game music – use of computer software and composition software to create your own piece of music
- Rhythms and Drumming – performance and listening skills
- Students get the opportunity to design and make their own musical instrument
- Pop Music – performance and composition. An exciting opportunity to write your own pop song
- Blues and Jazz – looking at the history of the style of music and explore performance and listening
- Musical Theatre – watching and creating music to be used in performance
Drama
- Devised performances – looking at writing your own script and performing. Understanding how speech, movement and staging can all be used in performance
- Learning about skills to improve confidence and produce a collaborative piece of drama
- Analysing practitioners and how their work has effected theatre today
- Study of characterisation and how to portray various personalities’ and characters
- Learn how to work in groups to create a piece of performance in front of an audience
Progress of all pupils in Creative Arts is closely monitored. Pupils will be given clear verbal feedback during lessons on progress in specific tasks and subsequently, be given an opportunity to improve. Pupils will be advised on their strengths and areas for development and given advice on appropriate opportunities for improvement.