The Visual Arts course encourages students to challenge their own creative and cultural expectations and boundaries. It is a thought-provoking course in which students develop analytical skills in problem-solving and divergent thinking, while working towards technical proficiency and confidence as art-makers. In addition to exploring and comparing visual arts from different perspectives and in different contexts, students are expected to engage in, experiment with and critically reflect upon a wide range of contemporary practices and media. The following three core areas, which have been designed to fully interlink with the assessment tasks, are central to the course. Students are required to understand the relationship between these areas and how each area informs and impacts their work in visual arts. Visual Arts in Context involves exploring perspectives, theories and cultures that inform and influence visual arts practice. Visual Arts Methods addresses ways of making art work through the exploration and acquisition of skills, techniques and processes, and through engagement with a variety of media and methods. Communicating Visual Arts is about investigating, understanding and applying the processes involved in selecting work for exhibition and public display.
Offers of places at 16+ are conditional on applicants achieving our required grades at GCSE, IB MYP or the equivalent foreign examinations. We ask for three 7 grades (or grade A) and above and another three 6 grades (or grade B) and above at GCSE or for IB MYP we require three 6 grades and three 5 grades. These should include English and mathematics and, where applicable, the subjects chosen for IB Higher Level or A-Level. We allocate places on academic merit, considered alongside the potential to contribute to our co-curricular programme. We recommend at least a Grade 6 at I/GCSE in any subject taken at IB Higher Level or A-level; students will not normally be allowed to pursue a subject in which they have attained less than a Grade 5.
Students at both Higher Level and Standard Level complete: • Comparative Study that considers and compares art from different cultures. • A Process Portfolio to demonstrate their experimentation, exploration, manipulation and refinement of a variety of visual arts activities during the two-year course. • An exhibition of their completed work along with a curatorial rationale. The exhibition is internally assessed and moderated by the IB.
About Education Provider
| Region | West Midlands |
| Local Authority | Warwickshire |
| Ofsted Rating | |
| Gender Type | Co-Educational |
| ISI Report | View Report |
| Boarding Fee | £45,990 |
| Sixth Form Fee | £28,890 |
| Address | The Bursary, 10 Little Church Street, Rugby, CV21 3AW |
The Visual Arts course encourages students to challenge their own creative and cultural expectations and boundaries. It is a thought-provoking course in which students develop analytical skills in problem-solving and divergent thinking, while working towards technical proficiency and confidence as art-makers. In addition to exploring and comparing visual arts from different perspectives and in different contexts, students are expected to engage in, experiment with and critically reflect upon a wide range of contemporary practices and media. The following three core areas, which have been designed to fully interlink with the assessment tasks, are central to the course. Students are required to understand the relationship between these areas and how each area informs and impacts their work in visual arts. Visual Arts in Context involves exploring perspectives, theories and cultures that inform and influence visual arts practice. Visual Arts Methods addresses ways of making art work through the exploration and acquisition of skills, techniques and processes, and through engagement with a variety of media and methods. Communicating Visual Arts is about investigating, understanding and applying the processes involved in selecting work for exhibition and public display.
Offers of places at 16+ are conditional on applicants achieving our required grades at GCSE, IB MYP or the equivalent foreign examinations. We ask for three 7 grades (or grade A) and above and another three 6 grades (or grade B) and above at GCSE or for IB MYP we require three 6 grades and three 5 grades. These should include English and mathematics and, where applicable, the subjects chosen for IB Higher Level or A-Level. We allocate places on academic merit, considered alongside the potential to contribute to our co-curricular programme. We recommend at least a Grade 6 at I/GCSE in any subject taken at IB Higher Level or A-level; students will not normally be allowed to pursue a subject in which they have attained less than a Grade 5.
Students at both Higher Level and Standard Level complete: • Comparative Study that considers and compares art from different cultures. • A Process Portfolio to demonstrate their experimentation, exploration, manipulation and refinement of a variety of visual arts activities during the two-year course. • An exhibition of their completed work along with a curatorial rationale. The exhibition is internally assessed and moderated by the IB.