Our aim is to enable all students to reach their fullest potential in the visual and performing Arts. We are constantly revising our curriculum to ensure that our students achieve outcomes which reflect their ability and interests and challenge them further.

Art and Design is a very popular subject at Robertsbridge Community College. Pupils enjoy the relaxed, yet purposeful dynamic of the lessons. They welcome the chance to produce practical work developing from their own exploration, research and ideas. We deliver a general Arts curriculum based on high quality drawing and painting skills. Art & Design teaching staff are specialists in Fine Art, Illustration, Textiles and Ceramics.

Art and Design is a National Curriculum Foundation subject and is taught to all students in Years 7 and 8. During the course students explore a range of starting points for practical work in order to develop their own ideas. Students increase in confidence with a range of materials and processes and evaluate their own work and that of other artists and designers.
Many of our projects link with other subjects for example PSHE, Citizenship, Maths, History, RE and Science. In Art & Design lessons students are encouraged to reflect on and respond to the world around us.
Art and Design is an optional subject in Years 9, 10 and 11. The curriculum in Years 10 & 11 is based on the course requirements of the AQA Art & Design (Unendorsed) Full course GCSE. This syllabus enables students to study a wide range of Art forms including drawing and painting, sculpture, printmaking etc. In Year 9 students begin a foundation course in the subject in order to develop their skills, acquire maturity and learn to take responsibility for their own learning. They begin GCSE coursework in Year 10.

Key Stage 3 students must spend one hour on homework every two weeks and GCSE students are expected to spend at least two hours a week on homework. Students are welcome in the studios at lunchtimes and we hold an after school GCSE workshop on Thursdays.

Art & Design Projects from September 2010

Year 7 Line, Tone & Texture - WINTER LANDSCAPES
Exploring new materials and techniques, learning about different styles and reasons for making images. Sketching and drawing outside and developing images to make a mixed media image or print.














Year 8 Skulls & Bones & The Day of the Dead
Anatomy, Imaginary Fossils, Mexican artefacts and images and sculpture.



Year 9 Foundation course Still - Life
Critical studies, experimenting with techniques and new materials, basic drawing skills, perspective and composition.



















Year 10 GCSE Unit 1 Global Pattern
Multicultural styles and influences, designing repeat patterns and working to a design brief.










Year 11 GCSE Unit 2

Environments Illustration
Completing artist studies and preparation for mock GCSE exam.
Artists research: 6 environments illustrators
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