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ART AND DESIGN DEPARTMENT
“Visual Education is a way of learning that uses a language which does not depend on numeracy or literacy but exists in the way we describe the world we see by Artists and Designers. This language, as in other languages, needs to be learnt, a vocabulary built up and structure provided through which the learner may with confidence, skill, imagination and enlightenment describe the visual experience, and in the act of description, arrive at knowledge and understanding.”
Dalbeattie High School’s principal aim is to be responsible for the pupil’s visual education. Our main objective is to enable pupils to learn about their environment through looking. “It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world” John Berger (Ways of Seeing)
To do this we try to provide a broad range of first hand experiences both inside and outside the Art rooms. It is these visual experiences that are the basis of all the pupils’ Work.
Drawing from first hand experience makes us confront the real thing and keeps us engaged in looking, so that through this it is possible to acquire a greater understanding.
The Art and Design Department has two multi purpose studios, rooms 12 and 14 situated above the entrance of the main building. There are two full time members of staff, Andy Davolls and Alison Henderson.
S1 receive 2 periods of Art and Design per week
S2 have 3 periods of Art and Design
S3 have 5 periods of Art and Design
S4/5 has 5 periods of Art and Design
S6 have 5+ periods of Art and Design
Courses
We offer Access 3, Intermediate 1, Intermediate 2, Higher and Advanced Higher Art and Design
General Aims
• To provide a programme of visual education in the school.
• To promote inter disciplinary learning so that pupils can achieve greater understanding and cross relate their learning.
• To enjoy, participate in and learn from events, places and organizations that extend beyond the school environs.
• To seek to develop in each pupil self confidence, self discipline, initiative, and other social and personal skills that will lead them to assume greater responsibility for their daily lives.
• To promote and assist in making the school environment a visually stimulating and pleasant place to work in.
• To provide an assessment procedure through which pupils’ work will be monitored and their development evaluated.
• To prepare pupils for examinations and to provide careers advice for those interested in a future in Art and Design.
• To support and practice the school’s equal opportunities policy.
The Jotter
An animation produced by William Roydes, S1, in conjunction with the art department.
Click on the image above to view.
