Art

Art at Dane Court produces creative individuals who have the skill and confidence to realise their ideas.

We provide a well-balanced, structured and inclusive curriculum that gives access to the visual arts for all students.

In years 7 to 9 students experience a curriculum in which they are taught technical skills, transferable skills such as project management, team work, independence, analysis and evaluation, and learn how to apply both the art-specific and the personal learning and thinking skills to realise how their own art works.

The level of independence of art students builds from year 7 when students are given a grounding in the formal elements of art and an introduction to a broad range of mediums and disciplines, in both two and three dimensions. At Dane Court year 7 students make considerable progress in developing the qualities needed to create exciting ambitious art and consequently achieve the highest levels. In years 8 and 9 students build on these firm footings, refining techniques, exploring the potential of materials and of their own ideas and taking the creative risks necessary to produce works of art.

The Key stage 3 art curriculum empowers students to express their individuality, creativity and become visually literate, confident and independent learners and thinkers.

At GCSE and the International Baccalaureate, art students work from a starting theme and are taught how to manage and develop an artistic practice that marries creative concepts, technical excellence and authoritative critical understanding – the qualities needed to pursue the creative arts at degree level and as a career.