Welcome to the Bitterne Park Art & Design Faculty

 

Aims:
We are a Faculty of dedicated professionals who have a passion for this subject and for teaching and learning. We strive for excellence and encourage challenge and innovation both as teachers and subject leaders and in the attitudes and skills of our learners. Design is a hugely important field of expression and communication and as professionals we understand the importance our field of education plays in the lives of learners and their futures as citizens
 
We aim to provide and exciting and high quality curriculum that prepares our Key Stage 3 students for the next step and provides life long learning skills and our Key Stage 4 students with the qualifications, skills, attitude and direction necessary to move forward to the next stage of their lives.
 
We aim to equip students with a broad and secure range of skills and knowledge to help them be independent and solve their own challenges in order to make objective decisions in their lives.
 
We aim and prepare for a safe and secure learning environment that is both comfortable and stimulating for our learners to be able to take risks, challenge stereotypes and achieve success in.
 
We aim to constantly improve the challenges we set, making them relevant, progressive and meet the needs of all our learners, establishing a norm for quality, excitement and achievement in which to flourish.
 
We make professional judgements and national assessments to qualify levels of achievement in our subjects for our students. We inform both the student and home of pupil’s current levels, abilities and the relevant targets necessary to support their progress.
 
Design Faculty Staffing
Mr Tucker                  Head of Design Faculty
Mrs Corsi                   Subject Leader Food Technology
Mrs Earnshaw          Subject Leader Textiles
Mr Wooton                 Subject Leader Resistant Materials
Mr Lafferty                 Teacher of Technology & Construction
Mrs Bajnath               Teacher Art & Design
Mrs Westley              Teacher of Food Technology
Mr Vardy                    Teacher of Art, Design & Graphics
Ms Vaughan             Teacher of Art & Design
Mr Vincent                 Design Technician
Mrs Dust                    Design Technician
 
 
The Design Faculty area is based in the main building and the Design Quod over the following rooms:
701,702, 703 & 113 Art & Design, including ceramic kiln & clay storage area & adjacent outdoor practical space.
110 & 111 Food Technology
115 &109 Resistant Materials
114 Graphics
112 Textiles
 
Art & Design
Teaching and facilities in the Art Department.
We use a variety of teaching and learning methods to create an inclusive environment. Students are guided and supported in their learning and are given the opportunity to be independent, self motivated and proactive in their progress towards their maximum attainment and achievement.
We have four classrooms and four specialist Art teachers. The department has its own IT facilities using Mac computers, a ceramics kiln and an outside 3D working space.
 
Students are expected to meet deadlines for homework and HLTs with action plans, clubs, workshops’, study visits and one to one sessions to support this. Although students are expected to have access to basic materials both wet and dry for use at home, we offer access to materials during break, lunch time and after school and may loan equipment out to students. Students should use the school library and other places to gather research materials, such as museums and galleries and when possible attend Art Department study visits as a part of any project work.