Art and Design
Intent:
At BBG, we develop students to lead successful and happy lives and make a positive contribution to their community. Our curriculum each year is designed to provide world-class experiences and opportunities whilst developing knowledge and skills that enrich and challenge our students whilst developing resilience. We understand that the curriculum is key to determining the life opportunities and choices for our students and, therefore, we will not compromise on providing the very best. Students receive a high-quality education throughout the academic year, delivering valuable learning opportunities and experiences for all students, including those with SEND and specific talents.
Through teaching with excellence and modelling exemplary behaviour, the Creative Arts department strives to challenge, motivate and inspire greatness in our students, enabling them to become outstanding and ambitious for themselves. Creative subjects are exciting, challenging, and rigorous. They develop pupils’ confidence, technical knowledge, creativity and practical skills to help encourage a growth mindset. Students acquire a broad range of subject knowledge and draw on disciplines such as mathematics, science, engineering, computing and can make cross-links through their subjects. Pupils learn how to take risks, becoming resourceful, innovative, enterprising and capable citizens.
Our KS3 curriculum is carefully sequenced to build sufficient technical knowledge and skill for pupils to be able to develop high-quality samples inspired by artists and to begin developing solutions to real-world problems. We aim to develop pupils who are resourceful, innovative, and enterprising and who can take creative risks, but also create work to be proud of.
We develop cultural capital by extending pupils' knowledge of the work by a range of culturally significant creative professionals and styles of design.
Providing enrichment opportunities and the opportunities to work with outside  organisations such as local artists and designers.
Providing students with an insight into how life works in the wider world, methods of manufacture or the practices of the creative industries.
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