HOD: Mrs D. Sheridan BA Hons, PGCE

Staff members: Mr C.Carney BA Hons, PGCE,  Mrs S.Bamford

Drama is taught at KS3 and provides a good platform for further study.  Pupils can access and develop many of the media skills they would require for further study as Media Studies is taught as a discreet area of the English curriculum in KS3.

AQA Media Studies and AQA Drama are taught to GCSE and we hope to offer Moving Image Arts as an additional GCSE in the near future.

Moving Image Arts is available in the College as AS and A2 (CCEA).  We access AS and A2 Drama through the Bangor Learning Partnership programme.

Drama

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. Alfred Hitchcock

All pupils have a timetabled Drama class at Key Stage 3.  We offer a broad foundation at this stage towards building Drama skills and knowledge.

Pupils are introduced to practical areas such as theatre-in-education, acting, improvisation and devised thematic work.

GCSE Drama is offered at Key Stage 4.  Practical work is chosen based on the student’s strengths.

In addition, pupils enjoy enriching trips to the Grand Opera House in Belfast and productions by The Lyric Theatre, Belfast.  In 2010, our GCSE pupils took part in a web-based project on Pinter’s ‘The Caretaker’ with The Lyric Theatre.  In 2009, pupils took part in BBC Blast workshops.  We enjoy visits to the College from theatre workshop facilitators.

Drama can provide a way for children to discover they can make a contribution, it empowers them and raises their self-esteem.  The arts let [young people] put their own individual stamp on what they are good at. Rachael Glass

Moving Image Arts

In Moving Image Arts pupils are giving the opportunity to enter film making competitions and festivals. It can be said that no art or communication form is as influential, powerful or prolific in the modern era as the art of Moving Images. From film and television programming to advertising and web streaming, it’s a medium that resonates with people because its combination of all other art forms (performance, visual, physical, musical, lyrical, textual) most closely approximates the limitless creativity of our own dreams.

“Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.”

-Ingmar Bergman, Director

The rapid growth of digital media technologies has made the creative industries increasingly accessible and attractive to young people. CCEA’s MIA qualification gives candidates their first taste of this exciting and enterprising field while also embedding skills that will benefit them in a host of additional pursuits.

The moving image is a key driver of the creative industries. The rapid growth of digital media technologies has made the creative industries increasingly accessible and attractive to young people. The impact of these developments is being felt within the classroom, where students are seeking opportunities to learn technical skills and express themselves creatively.

Our GCE Moving Image Arts qualification is designed to help students develop their creative and critical abilities through hands-on learning in the craft of moving image arts