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.

Welcome back to all our students for the second full term in the Art Dept. This is a busy period for us. Year 13 students are embarking on their externally set task and will be compiling their final coursework portfolios and Year 11 students are also starting their externally set tasks and finalising their coursework projects. Year 10 students will complete their first GCSE Main Pieces and start their exciting new project. In Key Stage 3 our Year 9 students will embark on a terrific project about Pop Art portraits which will include a trip to Tate Modern and Year 8 will start an interesting theme on "Fragmentation". Year 7 will complete their "Face" project and begin a project about that investigates fabric designs and Year 6 make a start on a wonderful project about the human form. Challonerart looks forward to everyone's endeavours.

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