Curriculum – Photography

Vision

Our aim is to provide a broad, stimulating and inclusive curriculum that fosters a love of the Arts and develops all students’ creativity and cultural understanding regardless of artistic ability. Photography jobs are as vast as the medium is visible in the world. We aim to develop our students as creative thinkers who are provided with the skills and knowledge to construct their own photographic images so that they contain high visual appeal.

We want our students to look at the world in a creative way. The creative potential stimulated within our GCSE Photography course is designed to enable our students to apply creative, analytical and critical thinking, along with problem solving skills to visually communicate ideas through photography and digital software. Students will apply critical analyses of artists’ work in order to help them to develop their own ideas through reaction, practical application and written reflections.

Our KS4 curriculum is planned and sequenced so that students’ knowledge, skills and understanding of different camera and digital skills, techniques and contextual sources are progressively built on.  These threshold concepts underpin our curriculum and are delivered through theme-based projects over a two year period.

Curriculum

Updated: July 2025

The curriculum is available to view online or download below:

Click here to view the GCSE and Equivalent Qualifications Specifications