- Students develop understanding and appreciation of the creative arts in modern culture and history.
- Students develop subject-specific skills and use technology to express their personal response to a creative stimulus.
- Students investigate techniques used by artists, photographers and musicians from different times, places and cultures, and present their own work in response to this knowledge.
- Students are entitled to be inspired by the artform being studied, and challenged to create their best personal response to it.
- Students develop empathy and respect for others through study of art forms from differing times, places and cultures.
- Students have the opportunity to showcase their work, for example in performance, exhibition or virtual platforms.
- Students understand their individual creative journey and where this could lead them at post-sixteen and careers.
Photography is also known as multimedia and begins in Year 9. This is an endorsed, specialist option which gives students the opportunity to produce practical work in a range of styles including theme-based photography (portrait, landscape, still-life, reportage), documentary photography, photo-journalism, narrative photography and experimental imagery using media technologies and image manipulation.