Students are encouraged to work both collaboratively and individually through a challenging range of two and three-dimensional media and to review and refine work at each stage of the creative process through peer critiques. Students in each year group are taught to record their responses through a range of different processes from photography to drawing. Particular emphasis is put on observational drawing skills, which form an integral part of each project. All students learn to deconstruct and analyse other artists, craftspeople, cultures and historical periods. In turn they learn to apply this knowledge to their own work, making connections between other contexts and their personal responses to become both critics and practitioners.