Art, Craft and Design (Photography)

Applications for 2025 entry open on Wednesday 6th November 2024. Please do not submit your application before this date. Please apply via PS16 on via our website.

The course is designed to be fun, exciting and thought provoking. Art, craft and design encourages diverse ways of understanding, interpreting, evaluating, and feeling; supporting the development of a sense of individual and collective identity; increased social awareness and engagement and enhanced opportunities for vocational learning and subject-related careers.

Entering the qualification with confident technical recording and editing skills and an inquiring mind, tutors support students to research a chosen starting point, using critical understanding to analyse a broad range of contextual sources. Results will inform and justify the application of the visual language of art and design, which will include exploration of alternative materials, techniques, and processes.

During Year 12, students will explore the many disciplines of Art, Craft and Design and be introduced to a broad range of materials, processes, and techniques such as drawing, photography, visual communication, fashion & textiles, 3D Making and printmaking as an introduction to the subject. Students will then have the choice to build on their individual strengths and select their chosen area of study.

Grade 5 from a suitably equivalent GCSE art & design qualification or Merit from a BTEC Art and Design

Students who successfully complete this course usually progress onto a range of different academic and vocational settings including architecture, multimedia design, illustration, Graphic Design , Fashion etc.