Art & Design
Our Aim
The study of Art & Design provides pupils with opportunities to enrich their sensory experiences and develop aesthetic sensitivity and awareness by making personal visual and tactile responses to feelings ideas and environments.
Our aims are to educate pupils to recognise the importance of Art & Design in relation to society and their environment. A well-balanced Art & Design education can be a relaxing, enjoyable, creative and confidence building experience which could have a fulfilling end result in GCSE, AS and A2 levels.
Curriculum
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Key Stage 3
Art & Design is compulsory in Forms one, two and three, but no formal examinations take place.
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GCSE
Pupils follow the CCEA specification which entails 60% coursework (two projects each of which include preparatory drawings and final outcomes. The final outcome for one unit must be three-dimensional and the final outcome for the other unit must be two-dimensional) and 40% for an externally assessed project.
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AS
Pupils follow the CCEA specification which entails 60% coursework (two units of work) and 40% an externally assessed unit of work.
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A2
Pupils follow the CCEA specification which entails 60% coursework (two units of work, one of which is a four thousand word dissertation and the other a practical unit) and 40% an externally assessed unit of work.
Facilities and Resources
Art & Design is taught in the Pollin Building, which was officially opened in 1982. It is a purpose built building which allows for work in many different areas, such as fashion design, ceramics, painting, sculpture, jewellery, graphic design and product design.
The Department has three full-time teachers, one part-time teacher and a technician.
Additional Information
The wide variety of work produced by the pupils studying art can be viewed at the annual Art & Design exhibition, which is held in June every year. All the GCSE, AS, A2 level examination work and a selection of work from the junior forms will be on display throughout the Pollin Building. This provides a good opportunity for family and friends to enjoy the wide variety of very creative work produced during the year. The work of many of our pupils has, in past years, been on show at the True Colours exhibition at the CCEA building in Clarendon Dock, Belfast.
School News
OLD GIRLS’ ASSOCIATION
9th May 2008
Annual Dinner - Ramada Hotel, Belfast
REUNION OF GIRLS’ HOCKEY & TENNIS CUP WINNING TEAMS 1956-1961
26th Apr 2008
To be held on Saturday 26th April 2008