Congratulations are due to all those mentioned in the end of term assembly for the skill shown in their sketchbooks but particular praise is due to Katie in Year 9 for winning the prize.

Challonerart has set up the Year 11 GCSE students for their Mock Art exam. We had a meeting after school yesterday to discuss eveyone's plans and ensure that they are confident about what they are doing on the day. You have to feel sorry for them because when everyone else has an extra day off on Monday 5th Jan, they will be in school engaged in 5 hours of work!

Look at these two amazing landscape paintings by Katie and Megan.

As part of their Movement project Year 8 students have had a great time using splatter techniques!

Have a look at the examples in this link Front Cover Designs and then have a go at designing your own. Look at the current design and see if you can make something more visually striking.

Bring the results to the art department after the Christmas break.

This week Year 9 students have started a new project about Pop Art. We will be studying Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Hamilton and Peter Blake, artists who had a significant impact on the Art of the 1960s and whose work still resonates today. Challonerart looks forward to the results.

Have a look at this! It was produced from some gorgeous drawings by Veronica in Year 10. It is a worthy winner of the Christmas card competition.

Good luck to two of our students today who are being interviewed for a scholarship in Art for next year's A-level study.

It's a beautiful November day and 9& are working busily away on their landscape compositions: outside the light is crisp, the leaves are deep orange and make a wonderful contrast with the palm trees in the photograph on the wall....