King James's School

Creative

The faculty

Staff

Currently the faculty currently consists of nine highly skilled full-time teachers and a full time Technician. The current members of the team are:

Accommodation and Resources

The Creative department has nine specialist teaching rooms. Rooms have Interactive Whiteboards or display screens. The department has:

- 2 production rooms for Graphics and Resistant Materials
- 1 Graphics room with 24 computers
- 1 Art room
- 1 Food Technology room
- 1 Textiles room
- 3 computer rooms

 

Time Allocation

The school operates a 25-period two weekly timetable, with five 60-minute lessons per day.

Currently, in Years 7-9, students have five lessons per fortnight. For those that select GCSE courses, they receive five lessons per fortnight.

 

Schemes of Work

At Key stage 3 students are moving towards to a creative curriculum model, this is in place with Yr7 currently, Yr8 from Sept 25. This model allows students to experience design briefs, where they have to think well to produce varied outcomes using skills and techniques delivered through the golden knowledge. They experience all areas of the creative faculty. Yr9 will move to a foundation approach from Sept 25 where they will be prepared and experience some of the key themes from KS4 courses that the faculty offers so they can make informed option choices.

At KS4 Creative subjects are popular with our students. They can choose from a wide range of subjects – Art, Textiles, Graphics, Photography, Food and Nutrition, 3D design Technology, iMedia, Computer Science and Business.

The Art & Design Technology department follows the AQA exam board at KS4.

 

Achievements

The results achieved over the last four years in the various Art & Design subjects are some of the strongest in the school with Textiles and Graphics in particular.

We have very high expectations across the faculty and this is reflected within our outcomes at KS4. There is support widely available to students from the faculty staff and interventions are key to the structure that is offered.

 

Extra-Curricular Activities

The faculty offer additional enrichment opportunities for our students during lunchtimes and after-school, to ensure all students can achieve their full potential. 

Curriculum Intent

The Creative specific Curriculum Intent can be found here:

Creative Intent

Assessment Guidance:

The Creative approach to Assessment can be found here:

Creative Assessment

Learning Journey

The Creative Curriculum Sequences can be found here:

• Art KS3
• Art KS4
• Photography KS4
• RM/Graphics KS3
• Graphics KS4
• Textiles KS3
• Textiles KS4
• Food KS3
• Food KS4
• Computing KS3
• Computer Science KS4
• i Media KS4
• Enterprise & Marketing KS4

Golden Knowledge Organisers

The school defines 'Golden Knowledge' as being the most important content to Remember and Understand, as it represents the main building blocks of the curriculum. 

The Creative 'Golden Knowledge' for each year group can be found here:

• Year 7
• Year 8 
• Year 9

Year on a page

The summary of each Year Group's curriculum can be found here:

• Year 7
• Year 8
• Year 9

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