Subjects » Arts & Design

The Department provides the facility and opportunity for students to study Art and Design at IGCSE level and has, for most years, attained a 100% pass rate.

Although it is our aim to maintain full success at examinations, this accomplishment must also reflect a refinement of individual sensibilities, subsequent growth in perception and ability to interpret the environment.We aim to produce dynamic, creative, well adjusted human beings, who are responsibly in touch with the impact of their actions on the world in which they live.

Art is a subject of self reflection, mirroring and shaping how the individual person or society defines itself. It builds concentration, insight and confidence with an open minded, imaginative, resourceful approach to problem solving.

All developed and developing cultures rely on their ability to design and create.All things, other than that which is produced directly by nature, have been shaped through the collaboration of art & science.

1. Paper 1 of the IGCSE art programme teaches drawing as the primary medium through which imagination is recorded - firstly as perception of actual objects, secondly as a recall from memory and then as inventions of the mind.
2. Paper 2 deals with interpretative studies in which students respond conceptually to given topics to produce works of art in colour.
3. Paper 3 deals with graphic/commercial art.Questions are set to test the candidate\'s ability to analyse a design brief and to arrive at an appropriate solution by producing a design on paper.Computer graphics apply.
4. Paper 4 is a Critical and Historical Study that relates to any aspect of Art & Design.It could be a critical appraisal or theoretical study undertaken in written and practical form, including drawings, paintings, photographs or video work.

It enables candidates to demonstrate an understanding of the inter relationship between an area of practical art and design and the theoretical knowledge, which informs such work through the specific skills of research, analysis, selection and judgment.

Paper 5 - Course Work - (school-based assessment).

Candidates should produce a portfolio of work in a chosen area, such as painting and related media, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, etc.The portfolio should contain work which shows the development of ideas and the research that has taken place over one year, which leads to the completion of a final piece.

We welcome all those who sincerely wish to make the effort.