St Kilian's Community School
School Description
School experience
St Kilians Community School is a mixed gender DEIS school which supplies an excellent education to a large diversity of students from many backgrounds and nationalities. The school has played a vital role in the educational life of Bray and North Wicklow since 1981.
Their motto being “Learning for Excellence, for Life, for All” reflects their commitment to high standards, to the holistic development of our students and to the inclusive ethos of the school.
They offer a comprehensive curriculum, and are known for their strong emphasis on the pastoral care of the students in their care. The school has a proud record of participation and success in a wide variety of sporting, musical and other activities.
The staff, both teaching and non-teaching, are hugely committed and hard-working. The students do them proud in the manner in which they conduct themselves around the school, in their academic achievement and in how they represent and reflect this on in the wider community.
St Kilian's has a very welcoming and inclusive ethos, and the student body reflects this. There are over thirty nationalities represented, reflecting the modern Ireland of 2023.
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St Killian's community school presented a fantastic learning opportunity which massively grew me as a teacher. The school contains an ever expanding student cohort with vastly different additional needs, contextual backgrounds and languages. The experience improved my multi tasking abilities, strength in classroom management and the important teacher trait of flexibility.
The pastoral care and positive relationships between staff and students I also found inspirational. I look forward to bringing these new skills and increased passion for teaching I gained here into my future career.
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Unit of Learning 1: 6th year - Visual Studies
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Theme: The Bronze age.
Aim: Through discussion, questioning and experimentation, students will be able to recall, understand and identify key characteristics of the Bronze Age, by exploring in detail what we know about their lives, artefacts, the innovations, materials and the AEDP used.
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Learning Outcomes:
Research
1.1 Looking: use critical and visual language to describe an artwork.
1.4 Contextual enquiry: engage with a recognised artist or work of art.
1.3. Experimenting and interpretation: produce an annotated visual record of their enquiry.
Create
2.2 Contextual enquiries: apply the art elements and design principles in creating and evaluating their work.
2.2 Contextual enquiries: critique the work of others and their own.
Respond
3.1 Analysis: discuss examples from Visual Studies.
3.3. Impact and value: argue the merit of a work using appropriate contextual information.
3.5 Process: interpret sources of information
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Learning Intentions:
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know what the Bronze age is, why it's important historically and when it occurred.
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Understand what the lives of Bronze age people were like.
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Know that bronze is an alloy made from copper and tin, why its invention was so important historically.
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Understand the differences in the techniques of panning, repousse and incision.
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Be able to use the repousse technique to make their own Tedavnet sun discs.
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Understand all the different Art elements and Design principles evident in the lunula.
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Be able to visual language to describe the Ross Lunula and then make their own lunula.
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Be able to distinguish between the early and middle bronze age.
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Understand how to use their understanding of the bronze age artefacts and visual language to break down the Gorget into its: form, function, materials, technique and decoration and AEDP.
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Be able to identify which object comes from which bronze age phase.
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To know the layout the of the exam.
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Understand the meaning of a range of exam question terminology
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Using the repoussé technique to design their own Sundisc
Creating their own Ross lunulas using the iconic Abstract Geometric shapes and correct dimensions
Unit of Learning 2: 1st Year Portraits
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Theme: “My Unique self”/Portraits with patterned background.
Aim: Exploring the theme “My unique self” students will create monochrome oil pastel self portraits with stencilled backgrounds, while learning about proportion, tone, shape and pattern.
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Learning Outcomes:
1.12 Apply their understanding of the art elements and design principles to make an art work.
1.14 Use media to create their own Art work
1.3 Respond to an artwork using critical and visual language.
1.4 Demonstrate how they use drawing to observe, record the world around them.
1.15 Critique the choice of media in their own or others Artwork
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Learning Intentions:
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Know what a portrait is and how it can be made out of many different mediums and different composition.
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To understand the historical significance of portraiture.
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Understand that Kahlo’s portraits demonstrate parts of her identity.
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Be able to create an accurate drawing of the face.
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To know the difference between oil pastels and soft pastels.
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To know what tone is and its purpose in art.
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To be able to create a portrait with depth by adding tonal variations in the correct places.
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To know what a mind map is.
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To know the difference between organic and geometric shapes.
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To know what a pattern is and several kinds.
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To understand how Banksy uses the stencil process.
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To be able to use their stencils to create a patterned background to their portrait.
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*need to take pictures of final student work when go back into school in new year.
My own Visual Aid