This course focuses on advanced dressmaking skills and tailoring, with an introduction to designing a garment from scratch. Students design, draft, construct, illustrate,and create a technical drawing of their creation, with an introduction to fashion Illustration as used in industry. The student will also construct three or four technically advanced and sophisticated garments of her own choice. Students build on their knowledge of career opportunities in the design, production, and marketing of fashion and textiles. Students who complete this course are well prepared for admission to a university program in fashion design. Evaluation is based on the assessment of technique, creativity, work habits, and assignments. Students model their creations in the year end fashion show.

This course focuses on advanced dressmaking skills and tailoring, with an emphasis on design. A variety of fabrics and advanced construction techniques are used to complete the garments. Emphasis is placed on pattern alteration, so as to fit the individuals own design, shape, and style. Students will construct an evening dress, outerwear, top, and bottom. Students are introduced to career opportunities in the design, production, and marketing of fashion and textiles. There is no prerequisite for this course. Evaluation will be based on the assessment of sewing projects, work habits, and assignments. Students model their garments in the year end fashion show. Textbook: Digest Complete Guide to Sewing.

In this full-year course, students will develop their own powerful repertoire of self-expression as they learn to recognize, evaluate and appreciate many art styles. A strong drawing program emphasizing a still life study will develop foundation skills that were introduced in earlier grades. Projects will include, but not be limited to, drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and some mixed media works. This course will provide excellent preparation for art students who wish to complete a senior portfolio in the future.

This full-year course is designed to further develop, advance and enhance skills in garment construction. A number of specified garments are created. Students experience a variety of garments and fabric types. They learn to work with different fabrics such as silk and wool. They learn garment fitting and pattern alteration. Students construct a pair of pants, a top, and a dress. They may also participate in a garment recycling project. There is no prerequisite for this course. Evaluation is based on the assessment of sewing projects, work habits, and assignments. Students model their garments in the year end fashion show.

This quad-mester course will concentrate on developing and refining drawing skills and artistic exploration, these are vitally important as the basis for all art disciplines. Students will focus on mixed media art, painting, and printmaking. We will use a variety of mediums and different methods for planning and experimenting with ideas. Creativity and confidence will be enhanced through projects using a variety of materials and artistic styles.

Textiles 8 is a quarter course that introduces students to the basics of textiles and garment construction. In this course, students learn how to operate a sewing machine. Emphasis is placed on the use, care, and safety of the equipment. Students construct boxer shorts, contribute to upholding the school motto; Not for Ourselves Alone; by sewing a gym bag for Kindergarten students, and complete other small projects. Evaluation is based on the assessment of sewing projects, work habits, quizzes, and assignments.

The Grade 8 Drama Program introduces students to the Elements of Drama, and how we can manipulate these elements in dramatic works, when creating, performing and evaluating drama. Through games, exercises, improvisation, role-plays and play excerpts, students begin to explore character, focus, tension, place, time, staging, and voice, giving students foundational skills for Drama 9 to 12. In pairs and small groups, students have the opportunity to create dramatic works to perform to their classmates, and develop a deeper connection to themselves and each other. Assessment includes script writing and performances in pairs or small groups, self-reflection, and peer and teacher evaluation.

The purpose of AP Studio Art 12 is to challenge highly motivated art students at a level consistent with a first year art school program and then to grade them relative to other students who have undertaken the same challenge. In order to be successful each AP Art student will need to be prolific, organized, interested, open-minded and self-motivated. The ultimate goals will be to reach a high level of technical competence, to develop unique and interesting imagery and to place your work in a wider historical context. To this end, the program sets out an ambitious set of goals that are met through the completion of 15 pieces of original artwork. The volume of work required to complete AP Studio Art is at least double that which is usually completed in a school year at York House and, as a result, this course is designed for students who have the time, interest and self-motivation to make studio art one of their highest academic priorities. AP Studio Art is comprised of 3 distinct courses: AP Drawing, AP Art & Design 2D, AP Art & Design 3D.

In this full-year course, students will be given a wide variety of opportunities to create artworks of personal expression using many media and techniques. Foundation drawing skills will be further developed and used to plan projects and a digital art portfolio will be maintained. The study of artists and art history around the world will be incorporated to broaden students; imaginations. They will also use art criticism to enhance their evaluative abilities.

In this year long course, students will develop their own powerful repertoire of self-expression as they learn to recognize, evaluate and appreciate many art styles. A strong drawing program emphasizing figure study will develop foundation skills that were introduced in earlier grades. Projects will include, but not be limited to, painting, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography and computer graphics. This course will provide excellent preparation for art students who wish to complete a senior portfolio for personal or academic purposes. This course is a requirement for Advanced Placement Art.

Art 12 is an advanced course designed to give students the opportunity to expand upon previous knowledge and experience while working with a variety of art media; In the spring all graduating art students will have the option of applying for a district scholarship, which includes taking part in an art show and having their work critiqued by a group of local artists.; In order to facilitate this, Art 12 is essentially a portfolio development course that will enable you to develop a series of works in a very mature and professional manner. In addition to completing independent projects, over the course of the year students will be exposed to various articles and films to help expand their knowledge of art history and theory.

This full-year course advances and develops more sophisticated skills in reading and laying out patterns, cutting, and sewing. Students also learn how to use the serger. Knowledge of a variety of basic garment construction techniques is developed. Further, a more comprehensive, exploration of textiles, textile science, and history is completed. Students construct pajamas, a skirt, a top, a simple dress, and active wear. Evaluation is based on the assessment of sewing projects, work habits, textile science quizes, and assignments. Students model their garments in the fashion show. Textbook: Digest Complete Guide to Sewing

In Grade 10 Drama, students work individually and in groups, to further their scriptwriting, analysing and performing skills. Firstly, students engage in the Playbuilding process as a whole class, and create a play in their chosen style to empower and challenge their audience; their work is then showcased during a lunchtime performance to the school community. Students continue to hone their physical performance skills through the sixteenth century Italian comedy form, Commedia dell Arte, in which conventions such as stock characters, slapstick, and comic lazzi are studied. To conclude the year, students engage in an independent project of their choice, ranging from developing systems of costume organization in the Drama room, to writing and producing a short film or play. *Please note: In some years, Grade 10s will be in a class with Grade 11s and 12s, so the course will look a little different. Please read Drama 11 and Drama 12 course descriptions as well.

Drama 11/12 will introduce students to new content, such as One-Act Plays and new theatre styles, as well as allow them to hone previously learned skills in monologues, duets, group scenes and live theatre analysis. Given the multi-grade class, students will study the same units of work but with slightly different, grade-appropriate provisions for assessment pieces. The unit begins with a field trip to Bard on the Beach or Arts Club Theatre, which culminates in a live theatre analysis assessment. Students will then read a selection of Canadian plays, including plays written by Indigenouse playwrights, as a springboard into their first unit in which students work independently or in groups to perform monolgoues and/or scenes from published plays (prior learning) connected by a theme, using linking devices (new learning). Students will choose at least one of these scenes to perform at the December Drama Festival (STAR fest) at SFU downtown. Students will then select, rehearse and perform a published one-act play at the Provincial STAR Festival in April, taking on roles such as actors, directors, set/costume designers, or lighting/sound technicians. Finally, after Spring Break, we will focus on a specific theatre style and create a performance for that style. Some styles include: Political Theatre (Drama 12), looking at famous theatre practitioners such as Bertolt Brecht and Antonin Artaud; Physical Theatre (using the body to tell stories over the voice) or Children's Theatre.

Drama 11/12 will introduce students to new content, such as One-Act Plays and new theatre styles, as well as allow them to hone previously learned skills in monologues, duets, group scenes and live theatre analysis. Given the multi-grade class, students will study the same units of work but with slightly different, grade-appropriate provisions for assessment pieces. The unit begins with a field trip to Bard on the Beach or Arts Club Theatre, which culminates in a live theatre analysis assessment. Students will then read a selection of Canadian plays, including plays written by Indigenouse playwrights, as a springboard into their first unit in which students work independently or in groups to perform monolgoues and/or scenes from published plays (prior learning) connected by a theme, using linking devices (new learning). Students will choose at least one of these scenes to perform at the December Drama Festival (STAR fest) at SFU downtown. Students will then select, rehearse and perform a published one-act play at the Provincial STAR Festival in April, taking on roles such as actors, directors, set/costume designers, or lighting/sound technicians. Finally, after Spring Break, we will focus on a specific theatre style and create a performance for that style. Some styles include: Political Theatre (Drama 12), looking at famous theatre practitioners such as Bertolt Brecht and Antonin Artaud; Physical Theatre (using the body to tell stories over the voice) or Children's Theatre.

Grade 9 Drama is an extension of Grade 8 Drama, in which students explore storytelling through a variety of theatrical styles and genres. Beginning with improvisation, students learn to develop their creativity, mental flexibility, and risk taking skills, by being open to others' ideas, supporting them and using their imagination to offer their own ideas. These skills are then utitilzed in a Fractured Fairytale unit, in which students work together in small groups to write and perform a script with a modern message for our Junior School students; during this process, students study how to write for a specific audience, how to develop characters vocally and physically, and also look at how lighting and sound effects play an important role in the creation of mood and meaning. These skills of characterization are applied and further honed during the Canadian duologue scene unit, in which students study the pioneers of Realism and perform excerpts from published realist plays by Canadian playwrights. Students then explore the historical style of Melodrama, including exaggerated stock characters, tension, timing, movement, and status. Through an ensemble approach, students rehearse and perform a scripted Melodrama play of their choosing. Assessment for Drama 9 includes small group and partner performances, script-writing, reflections, script analysis and peer and teacher evaluations.

In Media Arts 12 students will develop an innovative approach to digital photography, video recording, and recording. In this course, students will be introduced to photography with a specific emphasis on digital single-lens reflex cameras. Close attention will be paid to lighting, light techniques, and photo composition. Students will experiment with various software programs including Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, and Canva. They will learn multiple creative techniques in digital design.