Head of Faculty: Mrs T Hunt (Associate Assistant Principal)

Teacher of Art: Miss E Fothergill

Art provides students with the tools to be creative, ambitious, and resilient. Every great artist must, at first, fail to achieve their goals in order to build this resilience, and see failed attempts as mere stumbling blocks to success. At Serlby Park Academy we stretch and challenge our students through experimentation and expression. The artist’s journey begins with learning the key formal elements. This gives our students a strong base which they can build upon. Our students look at their work and others with a critical mind and contextual knowledge.  We aim to build passionate and reflective students through our curriculum to have a brave approach when developing skills with media and their techniques, using the physical act of art as a tool for looking, experiencing, and learning. Understanding and applying the formal elements of art across all disciplines: line, shape, form, tone, texture, pattern, colour, and composition are vital in underpinning creative work and successful students, and this is reinforced throughout the curriculum. We are committed to nurturing students who will embed creativity in their own futures, careers, and everyday life. Students focus on sustained units of work that show how they have developed as an artist over their time with us; skills and techniques that will be remembered for life.