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Welcome to Creative Arts!
We are a new faculty embracing Art and Design, Music and Drama. We believe we are the most exciting faculty at Nunthorpe and our mission is to help pupils to fulfill their potential in, and to develop a lifelong passion for, the Arts. Our pupils are the artists of the future and we hope our own love for our subjects can be passed on to them. We further want pupils to be able to see links between the different art forms and become fully rounded creative artists.
Drama Department
In Drama students will experience a wide range of differing materials to
stimulate their work and develop a growing understanding of Drama as an art
form. The four areas students are assessed in Drama are:
a) Responding to different stimulus, showing appropriate use of drama
techniques.
b) Developing, exploring and structuring ideas into a meaningful piece of
drama.
c) Performing using appropriate performing skills to communicate intentions.
d) Evaluating the effectiveness of their own drama work and the work of
others.
Key Stage 3
At Key Stage 3 the students will be exposed to a range of differing stimuli or
drama texts and through these drama texts will explore issues, characters and
their emotions as well as a vast range of drama techniques and strategies. All
of the skills used at KS3 are directly transferable to KS4 and the GCSE course.
Key Stage 4: GCSE Drama
The areas of Assessment follow the Assessment Objectives set by Edexcel, the
examination board used for GCSE Drama. Both Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4 are
essentially assessed by the same assessment objective as this increases
consistency and helps the students make the transition into GCSE Drama more
efficiently.
The GCSE exam is split into 2 papers;
Paper 1: consisting of 2 workshop days and a written portfolio to support the
practical work. (Which together is worth 60% of the GCSE)
Paper 2: consisting of one final devised performance, of around 15-20 minutes.
(Which is worth the final 40% of the GCSE)
Thank you for visiting.
Music Department
It is the aim of the Music Department to enable every student at Nunthorpe
School access to music to whatever the level of interest, commitment or talent.
Students enjoy developing musical interests whilst also developing important
personal skills for the real world.
We try to look at the bigger picture by understanding music from a wide range of
historical, cultural and social genres through active music making and
listening. (We don't need to like it - just respect it but we usually end up
liking it anyway!).
So, really, we try to do everything - and all in 45 minutes a week!
Students know that the place is always open for rehearsing at breaks, lunchtimes
and after school and we have a wide range of instruments for all students to use
when they wish, but they need to book a room.
Our concerts are a huge success and we don't advertise as we are always a
sellout.
We have different types of concerts: the huge Celebration of Achievement at the
Town Hall; the cosy community Christmas Concert at the local church; and the
students' own concerts where students choose, prepare and perform there own
music.
So what about the lessons?
Well, at Key Stage 3 we try to access as much musical experience and knowledge
as possible so we structure it into half-termly blocks of focus to make it
easier. Throughout these we encourage all styles of learning and a lot of the
lessons are where students are doing the learning not just listening to it.
We like students to take responsibility and not wait for 'Miss' or 'Sir' to
solve the problems because we believe our student are really intelligent and do
it well for themselves.
At Key Stage 4 students can really develop their preferred musical interest, as
we believe that is what studying music is all about, then we find a way of
making it fit the G.C.S.E. We also look closely at all the other music out there
to make us much more of a musician.
More than anything, we want our students to be comfortable being themselves,
enjoying their own music without being judged and feeling happy in what we think
is a clean, tidy and friendly environment.
Come and see us any time!
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