We have such an exciting term coming up!

In the first week back, our terrific GCSE students are sitting their 10 hour timed test. By Friday we will have a set of brand new art works to view. Good luck to them.

Our Year 5 group will be continuing their buildings project and the Year 6 pupils will be starting a set of work about animals.

Year 7 students will be starting work on 3D Masks and Year 8 will be making models of insects out of wire and our Year 9 students will be making maquettes out of card, packaging materials and wire.

Our year 10 and Year 12 students will continue with their fabulous coursework projects.

Later in the term Key Stage 3 students will be having their Art tests and just after half term we be running some art projects during Enrichment week.

A new term ushers in new ideas and fresh projects. Year 7 will be starting work on an abstract art project as Year 8 begin new work on the design of book covers. Year 9 are going to be concentrating on their Pop Art portraits before embarking on a sculptural project looking at public art.

Our Year 10 GCSE students will be looking to continue their work on portraits and the Y12 A level students are enganged in work on the human form.

Our Year 11 GCSE students are looking to continue their strong start on their GCSE Externally Set Assignment. Best of luck to them.

We are going to make a submission for the Fourth Plinth Schools Award this year. If you want to design a sculpture, come to collect a proforma from the Art Room. Final designs have to be in by Friday 8th March. Good luck

Good luck to the 7 Year 8 students who have applied for a 13+ Art Scholarship. The interviews will take place this Wednesday and next Wednesday.

There is much to look forward to in the Spring term. As our year 5 pupils continue with thier impressive "Hairstyle" project we are also eagerly anticipating the development of Year 6 "Big People" project. The Year 7s are due to complete their portraits and begin reseaching printing in a project about furrnishing designs. Year 8 students are about to embark on a fabulous painting project entitled "Fragmentation" which involves learning paper weaving as well as practising gouache painting and Year 9, once they have finalised their work on Movement, will begin to develop new pieces having investigated the art of the Pop Art portrait. Importantly, the Year 10 GCSE students are starting their second theme ("Me, Myself and I") as they simultaneously work on their final pieces in the first topic, Abstraction. Year 12 students are focusing on a major piece of work in the "Built Environment" project.

Perhaps most crucially, our year 11 Art students will quickly complete their GCSE coursework and then immediatley become engaged in their externally set project which culminates , after a 15 week prepararation period in a 10 hour timed session. We wish them all the best..

We are really looking forward to the way these exciting preparatory studies will be developed by our creative Year 9 students as their Movement project develops.

The art room is alive with creativity as we press forwards with our work in key stage 3. Year 7 are engaged in a project about faces, Year 8 have started one called "Text and Image" and Year 9 are investigting ways in which artists have created Movement. Look forward to theur progress this term.

This week our year 7 students will be concentrating on making observational drawings of fruit, using a variety of shading skills.We look forward to the results.

Come and visit our fabulous Art Deprartment during the Bishop Challoner School Open Day on Saturday.