From making wire animals in year 8 to producing fashion designs in Year 9, this has been a fabulous yera in the Art department. Challonerart hopes everyone has a productive and creative summer and will see everyone in September.

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This week the Art department will help Y9 students make clay models in the art room and take a trip to the National Portrait Gallery with Year 8. There are lots of fabulous activities to enjoy and learn from throughtout the 5 days.

We are planning a trip to this place; the National Portrait Gallery. Love arranging trips.

Our GCSE and A-level art students are embarking on the timed part of their exam project tomorrow. GCSE have 10 hours. Year 13 have 15! Should all be completed by the end of the week. Best wishes to all the candidates.

We love open morning in the Art Studio as a chance to view the work we have so far completed this year and have fun making new work.

Year 11 and year 13 students need to know that we have just over 6 weeks to go before the start of the timed part of your Externally Set Assignment. That is four weeks and 3 days at school (if we are back in tomorrow) and 2 weeks and 3 days for Easter. It amounts to very little classroom time; 10 lessons for Year 11 and 17 for Year 13 so you really must use Art Clubafter school on Tuesdays and make use of "flipped" lessons. Come to the Art Dept for advice. Gook luck!

We've got our J6 students finishing their large-scale portraits and our Year 7 students continuing with their furnishing designs. Our year 8 students will complete the "Fragmentation" project and Year 9 will look to round off the "Pop Art" work. In Year 10, the group will embark on a Main Piece in the "linear" project. In Year 11 and 13 students are working their way through their respective Externally Set Tasks. Challonerart looks forward to some exciting results.

The end of the half term saw our Year 9 trip to Tate Modern. Students loved looking for images inspired by the principles of Pop Art and for Sculptures. Our lovely Year 10 students made some terrific work on linear art.