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Curriculum by Year Group

Fourth Form

The fourth form is taught in English sets using an internal circus to deliver an introductory course in each of the following areas:

  • Drawing
  • Painting
  • Sculpture
  • Photography
  • Graphic Design
  • Textile Design
     

Remove and Fifth form

Remove and Fifth form pupils are able to select from all of the available GCSE options and are taught by subject specialists. The options, all of which are from the AQA syllabus, are as follows:

  • Fine Art
  • Graphic Design
  • Textile Design
  • 3D Design
  • Photography
  • Broad, unendorsed course

Some pupils study two specialist courses. 
 

Sixth Form

Sixth form pupils may choose from all of the available options from the AQA syllabus and are taught by subject specialists. The options are:

  • Fine Art
  • Graphic Design
  • Textile Design
  • 3D Design
  • Photography
  • Broad, unendorsed course.

Some pupils study two specialist courses and a few three.
 

Art

About the Art Department

The department is run by the Director of Art, Mr. Andrew Kenrick, and his staff Mrs Danusia Sawoscianik-Murray and Mrs Helen Platt-Hawkins.

All three teachers teach across the whole age and ability range and are Art specialists. The department is housed in a detached, purpose built Art School with six studios and a library. Art & Design have a prestigious reputation at the College, a fact celebrated by the enormous number of paintings that adorn the corridors. The College was the first school to pioneer Digital Photography at GCSE and later at A Level and work in all disciplines is often used as exemplars by the Examination Boards. It would be true to say that the Department is one of the real strengths of the College.

The Art Department's aim is:

  • To encourage a visual appreciation of the world about us;
  • To encourage an imaginative and creative response to a variety of themes and issues;
  • To establish interest and awareness of both past and present creative practice in all its forms;
  • To encourage the pursuit of excellence.

On leaving Worksop a significant number of pupils go directly on to study degrees in Graphic Design, Photography, Theatrical Costume Design, Fashion Design, Fine Art, Sculpture, History of Art, Architecture, Film and other creative areas of study. Some prefer to take one of the above-mentioned routes after a foundation course. We can thus boast former pupils who have their own clothes label, design for the world’s top clothes and car designers, work in television, in auctioneering, as a graphic designer for a broadsheet newspaper or in many other fields of illustration, graphics, advertising and fine art.

About the Department

About the Art Department

The department is run by the Director of Art, Mr. Andrew Kenrick, and his staff Mrs Danusia Sawoscianik-Murray and Mrs Helen Platt-Hawkins.

All three teachers teach across the whole age and ability range and are Art specialists. The department is housed in a detached, purpose built Art School with six studios and a library. Art & Design have a prestigious reputation at the College, a fact celebrated by the enormous number of paintings that adorn the corridors. The College was the first school to pioneer Digital Photography at GCSE and later at A Level and work in all disciplines is often used as exemplars by the Examination Boards. It would be true to say that the Department is one of the real strengths of the College.

The Art Department's aim is:

  • To encourage a visual appreciation of the world about us;
  • To encourage an imaginative and creative response to a variety of themes and issues;
  • To establish interest and awareness of both past and present creative practice in all its forms;
  • To encourage the pursuit of excellence.

On leaving Worksop a significant number of pupils go directly on to study degrees in Graphic Design, Photography, Theatrical Costume Design, Fashion Design, Fine Art, Sculpture, History of Art, Architecture, Film and other creative areas of study. Some prefer to take one of the above-mentioned routes after a foundation course. We can thus boast former pupils who have their own clothes label, design for the world’s top clothes and car designers, work in television, in auctioneering, as a graphic designer for a broadsheet newspaper or in many other fields of illustration, graphics, advertising and fine art.

Curriculum by Year Group

Curriculum by Year Group

Fourth Form

The fourth form is taught in English sets using an internal circus to deliver an introductory course in each of the following areas:

  • Drawing
  • Painting
  • Sculpture
  • Photography
  • Graphic Design
  • Textile Design
     

Remove and Fifth form

Remove and Fifth form pupils are able to select from all of the available GCSE options and are taught by subject specialists. The options, all of which are from the AQA syllabus, are as follows:

  • Fine Art
  • Graphic Design
  • Textile Design
  • 3D Design
  • Photography
  • Broad, unendorsed course

Some pupils study two specialist courses. 
 

Sixth Form

Sixth form pupils may choose from all of the available options from the AQA syllabus and are taught by subject specialists. The options are:

  • Fine Art
  • Graphic Design
  • Textile Design
  • 3D Design
  • Photography
  • Broad, unendorsed course.

Some pupils study two specialist courses and a few three.
 

Trips, Visits & Competitions

Trips, Visits & Competitions

All GCSE and A level pupils take part in at least one trip each year. In recent years these have mostly been to London, but Liverpool featured as a destination when it was the European Capital of Culture.

Expeditions to other counties have also been annual events in recent years. The Art School on tour has visited New York, Washington, Paris, Rome, Florence, Venice, Assisi, Prague, Berlin, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Sienna and Venice.

The standard of work produced us high and Worksop pupils have won local, national and international competitions in a variety of areas of study.
 

Gallery

Gallery

Gallery images coming soon.

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