Head of Department - Mrs Sarah Bradley

Teacher - Mrs Amy Northcott

If you are creative and enjoy talking about and exploring art then this subject is for you! Art is fun but also involves a lot of hard work. Most people find that their art coursework requires more effort than they expected; 100% commitment is required if you’re to guarantee success. Pupils will need to produce work at home as well as in school. Past pupils have gone on to careers in: Photography, set design, typography, curating in museums and galleries, illustrating, art direction, textile design, film making, film direction, teaching, lecturing, fashion, architecture, graphic design, to name but a few!

Head of Department - Miss Lucy Williams.

Teachers - Mr Alec Jenkins, Mr Luke Martin and Mrs Clare Vaughan.

50% theory  - Written paper 2 hours (100 marks) 

50% practical - Controlled Assessment (Practical based)  - Written controlled assessment.

The course is designed to:

• Encourage purposeful and enjoyable practice and study in physical education.

• Allow candidates to select their own practical activities to take into account previous achievement, personal interest and individual levels of motivation.

• Enable the teaching of the theory elements that arise from and during practical activities.

• Enables candidates to acquire self-esteem, respect for others and themselves as well as develop a commitment to an active lifestyle.

Head of Department - Mrs Amy Lancett.

Teachers - Miss Abigail Stevens.

The GCSE course looks at a wide variety of issues that are relevant to everybody’s lives from the view point of Christianity and Islam. We study topics of sex before marriage, test tube babies, love and marriage, divorce, abortion and euthanasia, crime and punishment, war and peace, the death penalty, human rights, and many issues, which are not only relevant, but are based on issues regularly reported in the media. The course allows students to study the core beliefs and practices of Christianity and Islam and apply these beliefs to the philosophical and ethical themes mentioned above. Religious Studies is very different from when your parents were in school. The content is applicable to your lives and the teaching and learning is engaging and inspiring.

Teacher -  Mrs Sarah Lewis

This course is defined as the creation of designs and products for woven, knitted, stitched or printed fabrics and involves an understanding of fibres, yarns and fabrics. Students undertaking the textile design title are required to demonstrate the knowledge, skills and understanding through areas of study relevant to their chosen title.

Areas of study include: 

• Constructed textiles • Fashion design • Stitched and/or embellished textiles.

• Digital textiles • Installed textiles

• Dyed fabrics • Soft furnishings 

 • Printed fabrics