| Staff | Responsibilities | Contact |
|---|---|---|
| Mr A.Peace | Teacher of Art and Design | alwyn.peace@burnholme.co.uk |
| Ms A.McHenry | Head of Art, Design and Technology | alexandra.mchenry@burnholme.co.uk |
| Ms M.Exelby | Learning/Behaviour Support | michelle.exelby@burnholme.co.uk |
| Miss. P.Nesbitt | Teacher of Drama/Music | phillippa.nesbitt@burnholme.co.uk |
| Ms S.Williamson | Inclusion Coordinator/Teacher of English/Music | susan.williamson@burnholme.co.uk |
The Art Craft and Design department, rated outstanding by OFSTED (Dec 2010), aims to provide vibrant and stimulating experiences that allow for personal expression within wide contextual frames. Students are taught to appreciate artistic and creative styles/ artefacts as well as individual artistic statements about contextual themes and will then work in these styles to produce individual creative expressions.
Students study 1 hour per week for year 7, 8, 9 and 2/3 hours per week in year 10/ but lunchtimes and after school sessions significantly further taught hours for extension/ enrichment and support.
The KS3 curriculum is rich and varied, ranging from: Tribal African, Australian Aboriginal, Ancient Egyptian., personal interpretations of subject matter in 20th Century styles, self portrait, Cubism, Surrealism, camouflage, illustration, graffiti, mosaic etc.
At KS4, pupils can opt for a number of art-based GCSEs, e.g. art, graphics, textiles, expressive arts. Grades have been excellent over the last 10 years, with 2011 being particularly impressive:
15% 2011 cohort achieved A* in Art & Design, 25% 2011 cohort achieved A in Art & Design, 35% achieved at least 2 grades above their Fischer trust type D prediction in 2011.
There are numerous enrichment opportunities such as: Yorkshire sculpture park- Year 10 & 11, Leeds City Art Gallery- Year 10, Workshop with practising artist in Leeds - Year 10, York Quilt Museum- Key Stage 3, York College fashion show- all years, Large scale sculptural projects for communal areas- e.g. dolphins, totem pole, dragons- all years.
The art department is committed to the excellence of pupils and there are AGT enrichment and extension projects, personally set by the art teachers. Lunch clubs for all year groups are on offer throughout the year. GCSE pupils can benefit from after school coaching and tutorials.
At Key Stage 3 students are introduced to design and manufacture processes using resistant materials- wood, metal and plastic. Methods taught include traditional hand tools/ machinery together with Computer aided Design/ Computer aided Making. Running alongside these processes of ‘design and make’, students will also learn the principles of systems and control, for example simple mechanisms and functioning electronic circuits.
Students are taught for one hour per week in alternate half terms during Key Stage 3. Design technology is also an option choice for the GCSE which is taught for 2 hours per week.
Burnholme offers a state of the art Drama Studio which was opened in 2002 by Sir Alan Ayckbourn. It is a large space with theatre curtains and lighting, the perfect setting for a creative Drama lesson. Students use all different sources of imagination when devising, rehearsing, performing and evaluating their own work and the work of others. Drama allows time for students to express themselves and work creatively to produce various different public performances.
Two different GCSE subjects are offered at KS4, Drama and Expressive Arts (which is a combination of creative subjects). These options are proving more popular with students each year. During the summer of 2010, Expressive Arts achieved 100% A-C and Drama achieved 100% A-D
Students are taught for one hour per week in alternate half terms during Key Stage 3 and then 3 hours per week during Key Stage 4.
The Food Technology room is fully equipped to industrial catering standards so that students have opportunity to experience cooking, not only on a personal level but also for a large number of diners.
At Key Stage 3, students follow the ‘licence to cook’ programme that enables students to learn to cook and understand the principles of diet and nutrition, health and safety and wise food shopping.
GCSE Catering together with the Hospitality & Catering Diploma allow students to develop these skills further and importantly, ensure that they experience real life catering opportunities for fundraising events as well as ‘VIP’ dinners, by invite only.
All pupils study at music at KS3. Year 7 and 8 have 1 hour a week of music, whilst year 9 alternate with drama on a half-term basis. Music is now an option at GCSE which allows keen musicians the opportunity to develop their instrumental expertise, but with a greater focus on composition and appraisal.
There are a good variety of lunch-time and after-school clubs, such as: guitar workshop, drum workshop, community choir, lower school music club and GCSE music club. These clubs are extremely popular; in 2010-11, nearly 50% of the lower school came regularly to at least one club per week.
There is a large music room, fitted out with 14 keyboards and 4 specialist computers (for recording). There are 12 guitars, three drum-kits, and various smaller instruments for pupils to play – and in addition to the main room, there are 4 smaller rooms for pupils to rehearse in.
Rehearsals are geared towards our three big yearly events, one for each term. In the autumn term we have our Christmas production, usually a pantomime or a musical. Then there is the very popular ‘Burnholme’s Got Talent’, a variation on the television show which is held in the spring. In the summer term, we have our very own ‘Battle of the Bands’ event. And if that isn’t enough, the keenest actors/musicians/dancers will have plenty of opportunities to perform at venues other than the school, such as the Grand Opera House, and York St Johns University