Staff in the art department put on a Christmas Crafts workshop at the end of term for staff as a wellbeing opportunity, creating lino printed sheets of wrapping paper, gift tags, cards and gift bags. Check out some of the brilliant outcomes!

We had some really fantastic entries from Y7 students in our art house challenge this half term. Such a diverse range of media and techniques .Well done to everyone who entered.

All students in Year 8 at Cramlington Learning Village worked on a project in the summer term, to create artwork inspired by the 16 different species on the Ben Nixon Nature Trail at East Cramlington Nature Reserve. Each of the 16 art classes in Year 8, focussed on producing artwork based on one of the species, using a range of printmaking techniques, including mono printing and drypoint printing. Students really enjoyed learning more about each species as part of the process, and also finding out about their local environment. 

Check out our new Artists of the Month displays in Imagine block and the Junior Learning Village. Some brilliant work from our KS3 students!!

Mrs Young and the Art Department ran several lunchtime workshops for Year 7 students in the run up to the Christmas break, creating baubles with inspirational phrases on. These include all of the different languages spoken by our students in school, and our EAL students  spent some time in their morning coversation sessions, creating baubles in their own languages. Take a look at the beautiful decorations!

Students in Year 7, 8 and 9 were involved in a series of workshops with staff to create artwork to support the Cramlington in Bloom competition. Students used a range of techniques and media including feltmaking, photography, painting and paper craft to create some stunning outcomes inspired by flowers.  The artwork was then displayed in the town council offices and Manor Walks Shopping Centre in Cramlington with some fantastic feedback from members of the public!

In the last week of the summer term, as part of Project Week,  our Year 7 students had the opportunity to work outside creating some en plein-air paintings of our school. They then composed their own poems inspired by the sights, sounds and smells of the school, and layered these over their paintings using Pixlr E.  Fantastic outcomes!

Our Y12 A Level Art students were approached by a local company in Cramlington, GCS Leisure Buildings who are based at Azure Garden Centre. Sales of 'shoffices' - a garden room or shed used for work - rocketed by 500% in the UK last year as the Covid pandemic maintained its grip and employees decided they needed a better set-up than the kitchen table or the spare bedroom, with remote working looking set to be the new norm for many heading into the future. 

Two teams of students were given a budget, asked to prepare mood boards and present their designs for a garden office or summerhouse. The themes chosen by the students were Northumberland’s Night Sky – inspired by Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night and the country’s own iconic Sycamore Gap Tree – and the jungle.  Isabella Robson, who is keen on a career as an interior designer, said her team’s jungle concept combined nature with the office. “We thought it was really nice to have vibrant colours so your workplace is nice and lively but you can still sit down, work in it and have a bit of fun at the same time,” she said.  Gracie Mair, who was part of the Northumberland’s Night Sky team, said: “There was a bit of extra stress, considering we’ve never done anything like this before, but that challenge really pushed us to be as creative as possible. I am so thrilled. It’s been a lot of hard work and it’s really paid off. “Planning, budgeting, mapping it all out and then see it come to life was really rewarding. I promised myself after my GCSEs I would never do Maths again, but here I am! We stayed well inside budget and I’m really proud of us all.”

Students in Year 7 art club completed some stunning large scale A2 drawings of insects using oil pastels. They looked at the incredible macro insect photography of Levon Biss and used these as inspiration for their own drawings. 

Our new Y12 A Level Art students enjoyed painting en plein air(outside) with Mr Hodgson for one of their taster sessions.  They observed and painted views across the grass behind Imagine block using acrylic paints. Take a look at their beautiful paintings!

Our Year 8 students(and art teachers)took part in 4 brilliant after school art club sessions working with Miss Wafer, one of our PGCE students. They  really enjoyed learning how to work with glass to create some amazing sun catchers. Check out some of the beautiful work that they created.

Take a look at the  new GCSE Photography work which has been displayed in the corridor upstairs in Imagine. We think it looks amazing!

What a fantastic group of Y13 A Level Art students we had, who over the past 2 years created some brilliant, diverse artwork in our sixth form studio, filling the space with creative chatter and clutter. It was such a shame to see them leave without completing their final art exam, but we know they would have been amazing!

This was such a brilliant GCSE Photography Halloween inspired lesson, where students first learned how to carve and then photograph pumpkins of all shapes, colours, textures and sizes. They experimented with different ways to light them in the darkroom with some fantastic results. Mrs Clazey's room had a very 'interesting' smell afterwards...

Another very busy open evening with lots of Y6 students looking forward to their Art lessons at the 'big' school. We always try to get all of our visitors involved in making some art when they come to look around. Take a look at some of the examples of what they've created below.  

Our Y12 Art students created these stunning A2 size papercuts to decorate a local residential care home in Cramlington. Students took inspiration from 'The 12 Days of Christmas' and each piece was carefully cut by hand. They looked amazing, and the residents all loved seeing them on their windows.