Our Arts Department provides a range of extra-curricular opportunities throughout the school year. These activities support and further develop skills students learn in the Arts curriculum areas.
These include, but are not limited to:
- Music in May
- Productions or Musicals
- Follow Your Passion groups
- Arts Festival including Art exhibition Art Splatt
- House Challenges
Study the Arts
“The Arts teach you to deal with the world around you. It is the oxygen that makes all the other subjects breathe" - Alan Parker, filmmaker
- Promotes self-directed learning
- Develops communication skills
- Builds confidence and expressive skills
- Improves school attendance
- Sharpens critical and creative thinking skills
- Higher achievement scores on tests
- Helps to master other subjects
- Encourages new ways of seeing things
- Helps us make connections with the world around us.
Future pathways
Arts education helps develop skills and ways of working that will benefit you in the future in whatever career you choose, such as:
- Thinking creatively and innovatively
- Working both independently and collaboratively
- Leadership skills, determination and resilience
- Time management
Careers in
Administration, communication, education, creative industries, public relations, science and technology, performance, arts management, promotions, design, styling, decorating, illustrating, advertising, game design and many more...
