Varndean Creative

Full Year Course 

• You need to choose one enrichment to include on your timetable. 

• There are five categories to choose from, but you can only select one enrichment session from one category.  

• You can choose one of the following:

Art Curator 

This enrichment will involve planning and holding an art exhibition to be held in a local gallery. You will learn about the process and roles involved in staging a real art exhibition which will be open to the public.  

Art Enrichment - Visualising Your Future 

Participants will expand their critical thinking, industry knowledge and be inspired by meeting local practitioners and hearing them talk about their life and work as professional artists. Workshops include gold leaf gilding - making xmas decorations, graphic design - creating and photographing composition and layouts using vintage ephemera and printmaking 

Beginners Game Development 

This enrichment is for learners interested in games development but wanting to study other subjects. It offers a beginner-friendly, hands on approach to designing your own game and showing it to an audience. It focuses on 2D game design and art generation, using the Construct 3 game engine. Games development students are not able to take this enrichment.

Ceramics

You will learn handbuilding techniques to use with clay including slab building and coil building. You will learn how to apply decorative surfaces to clay using texture and coloured slip. 

Creative Writing 

Want  to write stories or poetry? Been secretly scribbling in a notebook and wondering what to do next? Creative Writing enrichment is for you! In this playful enrichment we explore finding inspiration, creating characters, crafting plots, building worlds, and just what does make a poem a poem? You'll have opportunities to write and share your words in a supportive, encouraging and fun community of writers.

Crochet & Knitting 

Open to all students, you will learn the basics of how to crochet and knit.

Dance 

This enrichment encourages any student with a passion for moving to come and join a fun and low pressure movement session. We will work with improvisation, set choreography and lots of good music.   

Digital Illustration

You will develop a range of creative outcomes using inks, paints and digital processes in Photoshop. You can choose to work from your own project themes and / or from live project briefs. There will also be opportunities to explore and respond to the work of key digital illustrators to help develop your own personal style. 

Drama Society

Open to all students interested in creating, rehearsing and performing drama.

Funk Band 

Enabling students across the college, regardless of whether they are enrolled on the music technology A level, to engage creatively and collaboratively with each other. This enrichment is the main opportunity for students at the college who wish to put their instrumental skills to use in a performing environment and enables students to form a community of creatives whilst developing their performing skills. This enrichment can also provide students with opportunities to perform at events across the Varndean calendar.

Introduction to DJing

Enabling students across the college, regardless of whether they have any formal music background or are studying the subject, to engage with music on a practical and creative level. The community created through this enrichment also enables students from different parts of the college to create connections through a shared common interest in dance music and engage with the wider creative community at Varndean. This enrichment also enables students to access performance opportunities across the Varndean events calendar. 

Introduction to 3D Modelling 

You will learn the fundamentals of 3D modelling, rigging and animating using Blender 3.0. You will be able to produce 3D models for a wide range of creative fields, including games, film, animation, fashion and architecture. This enrichment is for students not studying Games Development. 

Reading Challenge 

You will be given a Reading Challenge of 4 book categories to complete across the year- choosing your own books for each of the categories. Each week you will go along to a quiet space to unwind and read your book, or have a discussion about the book  you have chosen in the current category. 

Stage Production Workshops

Open to all students interested in working behind the scenes or front of house on College productions.

Make Media

An Enrichment that allows Creative Arts students time to work on your practical projects or develop your production skills in college during Planned Study time.