Ysgol Gyfun Bryntirion Comprehensive School

Our aim is to ensure that each individual young person has every opportunity to develop the skills, competencies and personal qualities to help them make the most of their lives and to contribute to their society. We pride ourselves on the development of a happy, productive and caring learning environment, where every individual person feels valued.

Bryntirion Comprehensive School is a successful, popular and happy school. Today our work is founded on the comprehensive ideal – a belief that all children are of equal value and that it is our task to help develop the abilities and talents that all undoubtedly have. We value every pupil equally. The particular strengths children have obviously vary from one individual to another. We recognize this and provide a wide range of curricular and extra-curricular experiences to meet the needs of all our pupils.

Bryntirion Comprehensive School is an exciting and stimulating place to be, for both its staff and pupils. The quality of our relationships with pupils and their parents is important to us and we look forward to welcoming you as part of our community. As a department, alongside the core curriculum, we are proud to offer a broad range of workshops and extra-curricular activities, designed to enhance the learning of all students. Pupil progress and attainment are excellent at all levels, demonstrated in our year on year success. In 2015, 91% of our students achieved A* to C and 39% achieved A*/A grades at GCSE.

Our department aims are:

• Learn methods of research and develop ways of analyzing the work of other artists, craft workers and designers, to enrich their work through, inquiry, comparison and evaluation.
• Explore the diverse working practices of artists, craft workers and designers from different periods, places and cultures, considering their purpose and intentions.
• Communicate how and where art is central to the world of work and the opportunities this can provide.
• Evaluate their own work, methods and results of their investigating, modifying and refining their work through discussion, reading, writing and reflection.
• Develop their skills of recording from observation, experience, memory and imagination.
• Cultivate their abilities for investigating the natural and man-made environment and also the world of imagination in a variety of media.
• Explore and organize a range of reference materials and resources to establish and develop ideas and themes.
• Keep a sketchbook to address different aspects of investigating to develop ideas and feelings. Exploring and experimenting with materials and processes. Initiating and supporting independent work.
• Discover and experiment with and apply the visual, tactile and sensory language of art, craft and design.
• Experience a wide range of techniques and media to realize their ideas, express their feelings and communicate meaning.