Tomorrow the Art Dept will award a sketchbook prize to a Key Stage 3 student who has made a brilliant sketchbook this year. There's a few in the frame. Could it be you?

Big thank you today to Martha and Jay who took photographs of sketchbooks. That has been a real help.

Some shots form the GCSE/A-Level exhibition last night. Thanks to those who came!

This blog has reached 49,997 hits. Will it get to the magical 50K by the end of term?

It's today! Just after school - come and have a look if you are doing art in Year 10 or you are going to be be doing GCSE Art next year.

Over the last few weeks, Year 7 have been striving away on their Clay Head project. All worked hard and tried their utmost to follow the methods demonstrated by Mr Coultart. But just check out these particular ones by Edoardo (at the top) and Joshua H

"My Bed" a key work by the Young British Artist, Tracy Emin is up for sale. It will probably fetch over £1,000,000! See whether you can work out why anyone would want to spend so much money on what looks like just a messed up bed

See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-28087349

Next Tuesday (the 8th July) we are having the GCSE and A-level Art Exhibition in the Art Room just after school. There will be plenty of great work and some refreshments. Students have worked hard all year, so looking forward to seeing the fruits of their labours.

Next week is Big Draw week - we are all going to be drawing images based on the chararcters by the artist Jon Burgerman. His work is great fun, really witty and colourful. We are going to get as many people in the school to contribute a drawing. Then the After School club on Thursdays are going to design a mural out of the characters.