Art & Design at Helenswood School
Year 7 Art Project with Peter Quinnel
15 yr 7 gifted and talented Helenswood students have embarked on an art project funded by NADFAS in collaboration with a local artist Peter Quinnel and Helenswood Faculty of Creative Arts.
The girls are making artwork over a series of workshops in school in response to a visit to Hastings Museum and Art Gallery. The work made will be able to be viewed at the Upper School Art show on the on Wednesday 21st July 4-6pm. The work will then be displayed as in Hastings Museum and Art Gallery on the Upper walkway and inside other museum displays from September 2010 until January 2011 as part of the Rareties exhibition. This project is also listed as Part of the Coastal Currents Festival.
Please come along and see these young artists work.
The students are Amy-May Geoarge, Miko Banks, Amber Lam, Elsa Lawrence, Ruby hugh, Amber Lloyd-Briscoe, Alisija Anasova, Montana Beard, Aleisha Holohan, Elsa Adams, Isobel Foster, Maria Ezobi, Rachel Wickersham, Geoorgia Watson, Emily Santer.
Helenswood support the Dancing with Dabs project (previously called walking the Fish)
Helenswood students are busy making fishy creation for the forthcoming Dancing with Dabs Parade! The end of the parade coincides with the opening of the Seafood and Wine Festival.
This project is to celebrate the local fishing industry in Hastings.
Click here for a full gallery of students work.
Key Stage 3 Art & Design
We aim for all of our students to leave Key Stage 3 with a strong foundation of skills and understanding. We deliver projects that teach the formal elements of Art and Design through the study of artists from different times and cultures and through different medium and techniques. We strive to install a great sense of confidence in students’ artistic and creative abilities and use of a variety of scale and materials and processes through exciting lessons
Student leave key stage 3 with ability to cope with the demands of Art and Design at GCSE.
Year 7 – Setting a foundation
Through the thorough understanding of the formal elements of Art and Design (line, tone, shape, form, colour and texture); through a variety of media including drawing, 
painting, printmaking, collage and 3-D. Artists studied include Wassily Kandinsky, Vincent Van Gogh, Howard Hodgkin and Hundertwasser.
Year 8 – Building on the skills learnt in year 7
Through developing a more in depth understanding of artistic movements and processes including Cubism and Expressionism. Artists studied include Pablo Picasso, Edvard Munch,
Year 9 – Further application of skills learnt previously and new techniques and processes investigated
Through techniques such as 3-D construction using wire, accurate self portraiture and reduction printing. Artists considered include, Gustav Klimt, Lucian Freud, Andy Warhol
Key Stage 4 GCSE
At KS4 we follow the AQA exam board specification and offer 3 disciplines: Fine Art, Photography and Textiles.
Currently the coursework unit themes are as follows:
Fine Art – Yr 10 Pop Art and Yr 11 Young British Artists
Photography – Yr 10 Local Environment and Yr 11 Portraiture
Textiles – Yr 10 Natural Forms Yr 11 The Punk movement
Students will have 3 lessons per week plus lunch times and after school sessions.
The course weighting is: 60% coursework, 40% exam with a 10 hour final exam.
Key Stage 5 GCE
At KS5 we follow the AQA exam board specifications and students have the opportunity to undertake AS and A2 level in Fine Art and Art Textiles.
The AS consists of 2 units:
Unit 1: Portfolio unit
Unit 2: exam unit with a 5 hour exam.
The A2 consists of 2 units:
Unit 1: question based unit
Unit 2: exam unit with a 15 hours exam
In our Department expect to find/discover: exciting artists, passionate teachers who are excited about all things arty (and are practicing artists, if we ever get the time!), excellent quality materials, lots of techniques and processes, photography studio, kiln, printing press, a nice room overlooking the town, trip(s) up to London galleries and lots more.
