Sculptor | Artist | Educator
BA2 School Placement at Trinity Comprehensive School
As part of my BA Joint Honours in Fine Art & Education at the National College of Art & Design, I completed a post primary teaching placement at Trinity Comprehensive School. This placement provided valuable experience in planning and delivering visual art lessons aligned with the Junior and Senior Cycle curriculum, supporting students across a range of abilities and year groups.
Throughout the placement, I engaged in team teaching, which strengthened my communication skills and highlighted the importance of collaborative planning within the classroom. Working closely with experienced teachers allowed me to develop confidence, adaptability, and a reflective approach to lesson delivery. The placement further enhanced my ability to foster an inclusive and respectful learning environment while encouraging student engagement, creativity, and critical thinking.
Visual Aids
1st Year Drawing
Unit of Learning
Aim: To explore shape, line, scale, tone and balance through drawing to create a distorted/caricature self portrait by using the grid drawing technique. Inspired by the work of cubism and tom Richmond.
Theme: Identity – Distortion
Length of UoL: 4x40 min lessons
Art Elements and Design Principles: Line and shape
Student Work
Learning Outcomes:
1.1 Analyse their work, or that of another, using appropriate vocabulary and knowledge
3.2 Use critical and visual language to explain their own designs and those of others
2.6 Investigate their own personal approach to craftwork through the technical and creative application of
drawing and mark-making
1.10 Identify the use of art elements and design principles within an artwork
1.7 Examine the method of a number of artist and the artwork they created
Visual Aids
Learning Outcomes:
1.2 Respond to an artwork using critical and visual language
1.5 interpret the world and communicate ideas through visual means
1.7 examine the method of a number of artists and the artwork they created
1.12 apply their understanding of the art elements and design principles to make an art work
2.5 develop their ideas for craftwork through drawing
1st Year Sculpture
Unit of Learning
Aim: To explore colour, form and pattern through sculpture to create a pop art inspired papier mache doughnut based on the theme food for thought.
Inspired by the SDG number 2: Zero hunger.
Art Elements and Design Principles: colour, form, pattern
Support studies: Andy Warhol, Yayoi Kusama, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Liechtenstein
Visual Aids
SEN
Unit of Learning
Aim: to explore form, scale and texture through sculpture to create a clay pot/head using coil or pinch techniques based on the theme “Hiding in the Dark” and inspired by the Pixar animators of monsters inc.
Theme: Hiding in the dark
Art Elements and Design Principles: colour, form, pattern
Support studies: Andy Warhol, Yayoi Kusama, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Liechtenstein
Learning Outcomes:
1.2 Respond to an artwork using critical and visual language
1.5 interpret the world and communicate ideas through visual means
1.7 examine the method of a number of artists and the artwork they created
1.12 apply their understanding of the art elements and design principles to make an art work
2.5 develop their ideas for craftwork through drawing