In partnership with our strong Christian foundations and high-quality teaching and learning practice, Art and Photography at Bradford Forster Academy encourages students to become: 

• Ambitious for themselves. 
• Academically successful. 
• Inquisitive and reflective learners. 
• Active and effective participants. 

• Confident communicators. 
• Emotionally resilient. 
• Inspiring to others. 
• Culturally and socially aware. 

Art and photography are sequenced to allow students to build their knowledge and skills over time by: 

• Providing a high-quality, all-encompassing education delivering valuable learning opportunities and experiences that is matched to meet the needs for all students, including those with SEND, specific talents and emotion and/or environmental barriers. 
• Providing a new and ranged vocabulary, glossaries, opportunities for reading, discussion and debate, encouraging writing with confidence, developing formal and informal aspect of Literacy and the ability to share and develop opinions. Developing numeracy through ratios and proportions and improving, measuring and accuracy with perspective 
• Recognising the importance of digital literacy by affording them the opportunity to access digital hardware and software for homework tasks and in lesson. Development and mastery of a range of programs to produce research based and digital art-based work. Introducing learners to new technology and new ways of displaying and presenting ideas. 
• Equipping students with the skills they need to function safely and responsibly in an increasingly technological world 
• Gathering at a variety of scales, with varying foci, a broad range of evidence to inform and assess, revealing misconceptions and gaps and responding to these in subsequent planning and delivery, to ensure knowledge and skills are embedded and mastered, prior to exposing students to new content and skills  
• Fostering the ability to critique oneself and other honestly and openly to strive to improve. 

Art and photography provides students with opportunities for them to develop the habits and skills needed to succeed in life during and after BFA by: 

• Igniting a sense of awe and wonder at the beauty all around, developing a questioning mentality and push learners to look for questions and answer that are not easily visible. Making sure that learner know that mistake are just steps along a greater journey and if we learn from them and push forwards, we will succeed thus enhancing our physical and mental health well-being 
• Promoting an appreciation of, and respect for, different cultures and viewpoints, arming our students with the knowledge and skills to celebrate and see the beauty of the planet we share, whilst remaining able to question, debate, offer opinion and value the world around them 
• Delivering a breadth of curriculum across key stages 3 and 4, that enhances cultural capital by immersing students into a wide range of historical, cultural, moral and divers contexts, allowing them to develop 2d and 3d art skills and foster a desire to create and show their individuality. 
• Recognising the wonder and beauty of spiritual, moral, social, and cultural diversity not just at a global level but closer to home, within our community and school, encouraging and supporting the development of them 
• Seeking and delivering opportunities to venture beyond the school and BD4 into the city, wider county and further afield, enabling students to engage their senses and absorb new experiences both physical and human, to further enhance the quality of education on offer 
• Exploring, comparing, and contrasting our own lives with those of others in different local around the world and different times periods through history