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Art, Design and Technology
Art Department
It is the department's aim to maintain, enhance and enrich the educational experience offered by school. The department aims to engage pupils and students in stimulating and challenging tasks carried out in a creative and supportive environment that fosters a spirit of enquiry. It aims to develop visual awareness, understanding and the development of visual language through creative activities and processes.
Art & Design occupies a unique place within the school curriculum; aiming to develop understanding, expression and experience within a wholly visual context. In this, it aims not only to identify and develop the natural abilities the pupil possesses, leading to personal growth and development, but also to enrich the cultural life of the school.
We aim to give pupils the opportunity to develop visual literacy, to see the subject as a medium of communication and personal expression, to develop their awareness and understanding of Art & Design in the broader context.
Learning in Art provides ways of perceiving the world that are not experienced in other areas of the curriculum. Visual understanding deepens aesthetic responsiveness and judgement by enhancing the imagination and intensifying feelings, ideas and sensitivities. The ability to see, understand and evaluate is essential in a world that relies increasingly on direct visual communication.
Accommodation & Resources
The department has five studio areas: a main Art studio, a Sixth Form Studio, a Art History classroom, a pottery workshop and a computer room as well as an external kiln room.
All studios have display space used for exhibiting work in progress, completed work, assessment procedures and source material. The school Library and corridors give extra space for displaying work. There is also a permanent collection of past work on display around the school.
The location of all the studios have additional benefits in their proximity to one another and storage facilities, as well as their closeness to the new Design and Technology rooms.
The pottery studio is well equipped with seven wheels, clay blunger and clay preparation facilities, glazing and glaze storage area, plaster working area and tables for hand-building. There is also an area for senior students to have their own space.
With the very successful introduction of Design Technology teaching the Art Department computer room has now become a shared facility. This works very well and plans are in place to develop this facility further.
Design and Technology
In Design and Technology students face challenges requiring design and technological solutions. Through a structured programme of work opportunities arise for students to master traditional skills and utilise exciting technology that reflects the rapidly changing world they live in.
At Windermere St Anne's, we aim to introduce students to a stimulating creative subject through a range of focused and open ended design opportunities in a well resourced and dynamic environment.
Courses
Key Stage 3 Design and Technology
GCSE Systems and Control Technology
AS/A2 Product Design
Resources
One well equipped workshop for mixed media work.
One teaching/design area.
ICT - a departmental network of computers with an exciting range of design and technological software applications.
CAD/CAM resources.
Access to Design and Technology software on the school network.
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