The Art department aims to teach all students to be visually
literate; to make them aware of the world about them and alive
to its beauties, so that they can express themselves through art
as fluently as they do through speech or writing. Students
develop a means of personal expression when they learn to make
sense of, and appreciate, the visual world through the combined
use of intelligence, eyes and feelings. Students of all
abilities are therefore encouraged to work through their
strengths, to develop as individuals and to use their
intelligence (that is, the sum of all the senses by which we
know). Drawing is central to all art activity. All students will
increasingly use drawing as a means to: express clearly
feelings, ideas and emotions; inform subsequent work; develop
good practice already established; undertake research and
enquiry. In Years 7 and 8, students explore a variety of
starting points for practical work, including Michael Craig-
Martin, Hundertwasser and Natural Forms, looking at Peter Randa