Pottery

Pottery connects us to ourselves, the earth we walk on, and our history. Our pottery programme began with the intention of providing students with therapeutic breaks from other classes, and continues as an important tactile and meditational experience, in addition to a means of creative self-expression and a connection to an ancient art form.

Junior School

For our youngest children in the pre-school programme, the focus is on the joy of sensory and tactile experiences, developing fine-motor and gross-motor skills while delighting in the wonderment of shaping clay.

In junior school children learn fundamental hand-building techniques to create 2D and 3D clay artworks. Beyond fostering creativity and refining fine motor skills, these lessons instill patience and problem-solving skills.

Middle School

In middle school, students choose between art & design and pottery according to their evolving interests. In pottery, each consecutive year of middle school focuses on mastering a different hand-building technique: coiling, pinching, and slab-rolling. Learning is based on projects inspired by artists ranging from SH Raza to Picasso.

Senior School

In senior school students learn wheel work, and design and create products using their hand-building skills gained in middle school, along with learning other advanced techniques like sgrafitto, mono-printing, mishima and glazing.

Pottery is available to students as a co-curricular activity till 10^th grade, and as a medium of choice for IB classes.