The Preparatory School Art Department is a thriving creative zone.  Anything from Ceramics, Textiles, Printing, Painting, ICT, Mixed Media and Three Dimensional studies, help to make the exciting schemes of work through key stage two and three.

Four influential areas help to inform these schemes of work. The first is critical contextual studies.  This involves cultural and Art history, along with Art movements – how and where they are placed.  The second is to start from a primary source.  This gives pupils a chance to become involved with the subject matter, and absorb the many different influences that surround it. Thoughts, feelings and initial ideas are pertinent to the beginning of the process.  The third is the chance to learn skills in a variety of different media, leaning how to apply materials and how to experiment with them.  Then finally the fourth is to allow the pupil to use all the skills, knowledge and Artists influences to create an entirely unique and personal final outcome.

Drawing is a very important aspect in any scheme of work.  This is not just the academic 2B pencil type we envisage of artists in smocks, but, is also developed in a huge variety of media, allowing the pupil to find the most comfortable medium for them.  This allows confidence to develop from the beginning of study, which then becomes compounded through the term of study.

The pupils have the chance to explore, learn and create to the best of their ability in the Art room.  It is a place of excitement, solace, questioning, reasoning and doing.