“The Moreton Art and Design Team aspire to create proactive, confident and imaginative pupils. That are reflective and forward thinking, who are determined to achieve! The Art and Design curriculum is focused around challenge, embedding knowledge, developing practical skills. As well as the intent to expand pupil’s cultural capital, developing the pupils understanding and knowledge of contextual studies; discussing history of art, art movements and both contemporary and traditional artists. The curriculum has been designs to impart knowledge and practical skills, that are embedded and refined throughout the years, developing, building upon and expanding techniques and use of equipment/materials further. The curriculum encourages critical thinking, planning and problem solving and promotes resilience within our pupils. We want our pupils to enjoy Art and Design subjects and being creative, taking pride in their achievements and successes, as well as inspiring a love of the subject. We aim to showcase to students the wide variety of disciplines and directions Art and design has to offer and what careers options are available to them within the Art and Design industry.” – Moreton’s Creative Arts Department.
The Art Department here at Moreton School consists of three Art specialists who are trained in a variety of Art genres covering 2D and 3D making techniques and traditional and contemporary Art skills. We are a vibrant and welcoming department that pride ourselves on our interactive and rigorous Art lessons that aim to build on students’ knowledge, practical skills, confidence and creativity.
The Art Department has excellent facilities which allow our pupils to experience a variety of art disciplines including drawing, painting, sculpture, print making and ceramics, as well as our new specialism Art Textiles and Photography. Our schemes of work are designed to engage and encourage pupils to think for themselves, try new things, build resilience, and develop a love for the Arts. We focus on a knowledge rich curriculum, allowing pupils to learn a breadth of Art historical knowledge, as well as refining their practical ability. We have extensive assessment strategies in place to ensure that pupils are monitored throughout KS3, 4 and 5 using the OCR GCSE and A-Level criteria. We use a variety of self, peer and teacher feedback strategies to encourage students to reflect on and develop their progress further.
Miss Williams
Head of Art
Miss Williams is head of Art and runs the department with the passion that she shows for the subject.
A sample of some of our GCSE Coursework
The Art departments pushes to ensure all pupils have access to wilder cultures and contextual studies, to encourage a love of art, through high quality teaching, trips and visits, external practitioners, workshops and internal enrichment.
As a department, we are committed to raising the achievement and aspirations of our students, having a 5-year trend of achieving significantly above national average. 2021-22 results Art results show 100% of the group achieved 5-9, 42% achieving 7-9. Textiles achieved 100% 5-9 and 46% 7-9 and Photography with an outstanding 100% 6-9 and 87% 7-9. 83% of the students who studied Art A-level achieving C’s and above, with all pupils going on to high education or full time employment.
Pupils within Moreton select their chosen options from the last term of year 9, starting their preparation for GCSE. Throughout year 9 pupils get to explore the 3 specialism within the Art and Design department; Fine Art, Photography and Textiles. This allows pupils to understand the subject further, preparing students to select their options for GCSE. For all three specialisms of Art and Design, we following the OCR GCSE Art and Design specifications.
The Art department Staff:
Miss Williams – Faculty Lead for Creative Arts and Subject lead for Art and Design. – Art and Textiles Specialist.
Mrs Lowe –Photography and Art Specialist
Miss Johal – Art and Photography Specialist
Fine Art GCSE Results 2022
Grade 7-9
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Textiles GCSE Results 2022
Grade 7-9
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Photography GCSE Results 2022
Grade 7-9
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Enrichment
Moreton students have excellent opportunities to visit local and national art galleries, participate in creative competitions, exhibitions and workshops. In particular, the Moreton Art department has fostered especially strong links with local art galleries. Our students have been privileged to use Wolverhampton Art gallery’s facilities and regularly be a part of their events and workshops.
In previous years Moreton students have taken part in a number of events and competitions, Winning Wolverhampton Art Galleries ‘Drawing Year‘ competition 2016, being part of Arts award and the Arts Council, exhibiting work in Wolverhampton Art galleries as part of the ‘schools exhibition programme’, designing and decorating Wolves for the ‘Wolves in Wolves Project’ 2017 creating a Wolves for the civic centre and the Wolverhampton Major, as well as workshops with ‘Articulate’, freelance Artists and practitioners. Other competitions also include winning the opportunity to be a part of the ‘We Love Colour’ exhibition at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, the ‘Parallels’ Exhibition at the Viner Gallery, and being part of Sandwell colleges annual calendar.
In 2022 Moreton School took part in the ‘British Art Show 9’ working with artist Larissa Shaw. The pupil’s work was exhibited as part of the BAS9 exhibition, as well as students getting the opportunity to visit the exhibition and meet artists. Pupils also came runners up in Coventry’s Living History Museum sculpture competition, with their tribute to the NHS nurses that lost their lives during Covid-19 Pandemic. Moreton School was also awarded International school of the year 22 for their participation in the Commonwealth Connections Project. Where Moreton became lead school for Wolverhampton, Walsall and Ghana, creating Artworks inspired by Ghanaian culture, plastic recycling, the commonwealth and themes of saving the planet. Pupils created large plastic wall hangings and sculptures creating an installation pieces that was exhibited in the Wolverhampton School of Art.
In all years we push to ensure Pupils have the best opportunities possible within Art and Design, developing cultural capital and once in a lifetime experiences.
