On Tuesday 16th April we’ll have our final Art learning lab before the GCSE Art exam the following week. As it’s the last chance before the exam for students to get some extra time in, we’ll be running an extended session running from 3.30 until 5.30pm. To keep everyone energised and working we’ll have a selection of food and snacks for students who attend.
All year 11 students are welcome, but we’ll be sending invites out to those who we’d really like to see for that final push.
On Friday 8th March we have a Staff day planned. This means that year 11 students will miss their usual 2 hour GCSE Art session where they would be completing important preparation work for their upcoming exam.
In order to minimise the time lost and to allow students to prepare fully for their exam piece, we are asking that
year 11 students at XP East attend school on Friday 8th March from 9am-11am.
year 11 students at XP attend school on Friday 8th March from 11am-1pm.
They will work in their normal Art classroom with their teacher, Miss Taylor or Mr. Doyle.
Students in year 10 are working hard on their 3D design product for their first project. They’re using different media and techniques to create viking inspired artefacts.
7 Explorer’s beautiful work following all their preparation in learning to work with acrylic paints and from primary colours.
Year 8 students in Art have been studying the human figure as part of their expedition “Being Human”. Their most recent assessment has been on faces, and you can see that everyone has been working really hard to improve their drawing. Critique in sessions and time grappling with skills have really paid off here!
Y10 have created their first double page in their new sketchbooks, doing monoprints and working on learning how to do developments and annotations for GCSE.
Our year 7 students have been getting to grips with mono printing this week – many of them trying it out for the first time! They’ve been using the skills which they have built up over the past term’s work on tone. Their images are all of artefacts relating to our expedition “From the ground up” which looks at the impact that coal mining has had on our city. We’re really proud of the beautiful work that our students are creating and hope that you’re looking forward to seeing it at their presentation of learning near the end of the term.
In our expedition ‘Being Human’, students are looking at illustrative medical drawings and focussing on proportions. View finders are used and students are recording as much detail as possible. They are doing this by enlarging the section: using both pencil and fine liner. There is some stunning work being produced!
As part of their new expedition “Being Human” our year 8 students are grappling with some tricky subject matter; the human body. It can be a real challenge to represent people well, but 8 Admiral have been working really hard to understand how using rules of proportion can help them to draw better humans. In this session they used inspirational artwork from classic Marvel characters, the Fantastic Four to help them build on their knowledge of anatomy and proportion in the human body. Impressive!
As part of their last expedition of Year 9, pupils have been looking at artist Ester Roi. After experimenting with watercolour paints and pencil they are now having a go at recreating a piece of artwork. X26 Admiral have made an excellent start and I can’t wait to see their work progress.
