St Brigid's High School Armagh

Art and Design

In the Art and Design Department we have one full time teacher. Art and Design is taught to all year groups from Year 8 through to Applied Art and Design Advanced level. In key stage 3, all key stage 3 students are taught 1 hour and 20mins per week.
Our schemes are aimed to consolidate and extend the experiences gained by pupils in each year of KS3. We will ensure that each pupil covers the matters, skills and processes which are suited to their ability, so that individual potential may be realised.

Art and Design Overall Aims and Objectives for KS3

Art and Design is both a form of communication and a means of expression of ideas and feelings. It fosters and encourages, through direct personal expression, imagination, sensitivity, conceptual thinking, and power of observation, analytical abilities and practical attitudes.

Stimulate, encourage and develop:

• The ability to record from direct observation and personal experiences,
• The capacity to work both independently and in collaboration with others, communicating their ideas visually and verbally,
• Consideration in relation to the use of materials processes and techniques,
• The ability to form, compose and communicate in two and three dimensions,
• Appreciation and understanding of the relationships between their own work and that of other artists, craft workers and designers,

• A sense of achievement and self-confidence by helping pupils develop ideas through to completion, and evaluate the effectiveness of their work,
• Awareness and appreciation of relationships between Art and Design and the individual through the historical, social and environmental context