The arts are a vibrant exploration of human imagination, offering a platform for self-expression and innovation. Whether through art, music, drama, or photography, these fields encourage individuals to think beyond boundaries and connect with the world in unique ways. They allow for endless possibilities, where ideas take shape and stories unfold, inviting both the creator and the audience to experience something new and transformative. Here at Stover, we nurture creativity, fuelling growth that drives both personal and cultural evolution.
Art, Craft & Design
This course encourages a broad approach which allows pupils to become highly creative. It covers a range of techniques including painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, installation, photography, mixed media, sculpture and stone carving.
The course allows for an individual response to Art and Design themes, and an emphasis is placed on showing how ideas have developed from a starting point to their final realisation.
The department contributes to the whole school community with regular wall displays and exhibitions in the library and open day. Art scholars work together to create sets for the school production and themed artwork to celebrate festivals and events such as Christmas, International Holocaust Day and Remembrance Service.
Stover Art Department firmly believe in nurturing young talent and celebrating the next generation of artists. We look for every opportunity to exhibit their artwork and forge links with local galleries, the community and initiatives to celebrate their creativity.
We have worked closely with both national and local initiatives including: The Southwest Academy of Art, The Royal Academy of Art, The Contemporary Craft Fair, Cancer Research UK, Holocaust Memorial Day, Maker South West and Bovey Paradiso. Each year we provide a creative workshop for The Contemporary Craft Fair, providing arts and crafts activities to the local community.
We enrich our pupils learning experience with gallery visits, artists workshops and extra curricula clubs. We have visited Museums and Galleries in the Southwest, including Bristol, St. Ives, Totnes, Teign Valley and Torquay. Our pupils go further afield with trips to London, Oxford and Madrid.
Music
This course will inspire the next generation of pupils in forming personal and meaningful relationships with music through the development of musical knowledge, understanding, and skills. Pupils will be encouraged to engage critically and creatively with a wide range of music, develop an understanding of the place of music in different cultures and contexts, and reflect on how music is used in the expression of personal and collective identities.
Drama
In a world where creativity and imagination are increasingly in demand, studying Drama will open up a wide range of further education and career pathways as a practical art form in which ideas and meaning are communicated to an audience through choices of form, style and convention. GCSE Drama will prepare you to negotiate with others in life outside of school and in your future career. It will also help you to work closely and sensitively with others, problem-solve, adapt to different challenges, risk-take and consider the wider world around you. You will focus on developing communication skills, confidence, cooperation, planning, organisation and collaboration skills – a huge step towards independence and maybe higher education.
