CreaTech

Art

Competition: NHS STAFF PIN BADGE

Students across Years 7, 8 and 9 took part in a competition to help support the NHS with many wonderful submissions! Too many to count, winners should be announced before the Christmas holidays. Stay tuned!

Competition: Young photographer

Students across Years 7, 8 and 9 took part in a national photography competition with the theme 'My Peaceful Place'. Students took photos where they found peace along with a title and short description. Winners should be announced just before the Christmas holidays!

For submissions find the google slides below.

Young Photographer Competition: My Peaceful place

GCSE Art Workshop by Joel Sydenham

Students of GCSE Art & Design took part in a workshop led by artist Joel Sydenham to create these landscapes that aim to promote a positive message. Each work was created on a canvas and students in groups of 5 collaborated to create these masterpieces. Students learned how colour theory, in particular, complementary and analogous colour schemes can contribute to the effect of the work. Following onto a silhouette layer and finally with a positive message of their own choosing. Each message promotes looking on the brighter side of life. We hope you enjoy experiencing the work as much as the students enjoyed creating them.

Year 9

Student explored how to paint with acrylic paint to better understand how value works in painting. Including how to blend with acrylic paint to create a more even transition of light.

Year 8

Expressive portraits Takahiro Kimura, using mixed media techniques.

Year 7

Impressionist mixed media painting, exploring how oil pastels combine with watercolour. Students learnt the blending techniques when using oil pastels alongside what the art movement Impressionism was about.

DT Textiles Club

Students in the Tuesday after school Textiles Club have been preparing Christmas decorations, using hand and sewing machine construction and decorative techniques. It is a great club to explore your creative side and to get to know other students from different forms and years.

In the new year we are going to plan, design and make a new textiles design banner for the entrance area.

You are able to join at any time!

DT Textiles

Year 7

Year 7 students learnt all about modern and technical textiles and used these to make a custom made mobile phone case, inspired by Piet Mondrian's paintings. Most students had no knowledge of how to use a sewing machine, yet they all made professional phone cases using a variety of techniques.

DT Textiles

Year 8

E-textiles is of rising importance in industry and Year 8 students constructed their own e-textiles circuit. Their finished product is a William Morris inspired lantern. using their maths skills students created their own net and used block printing and stencilling to decorate the lantern.

A special mention for a budding Textiles Star Angelina Kapur in 8B who created this masterpiece!

DT Textiles Year 9

Students in Year 9 were given a contextual challenge, as they would in GCSE. Students had to design, develop and make a ' Be Bright, Be Seen' accessory. They learnt about modern and smart materials and a variety of construction and decorative techniques. Students came up with innovative and technically challenging products which are great to use in the darker season right now.

Hospitality & Catering

Our Hospitality & Catering students were given the challenge to plan and produce a Panna Cotta dish, those students who were willing to further challenge themselves had to implement three different textures within their dish.

Prabhleen Kaur 10F

A wonderful, vanilla Panna Cotta with strawberry Coulis

Navneet Kaur 10S

Three textured masterpiece, white chocolate Panna Cotta with dark chocolate drizzle served with a homemade biscuit garnishing

Gurpersaad Singh 10P

Fruity Heaven, A lemon and lime Panna Cotta with a pomegranate and pineapple coulis

Leftover Vegetable Pie

With Christmas around the corner, our Hospitality & Catering students have been working hard to produce a leftover Christmas dinner pie, which will warm our stomachs on a cold Boxing Day afternoon.

KS3 Food Tech

Students have been developing their culinary skills, through the production of a variety of international cuisines from all over the world , our Year 9's had the opportunity to show of their skills with their very own dishes.

Music

Year 7 have been looking at the fundamentals of rhythm, using the traditional percussive music of West Africa as a foundation.

Students have been exploring key musical elements such as polyrhythm, ostinato, improvisation, composition, imitation and group and solo performance together with the use of the Malian drum the Djembe.

They have learned how to hold the drum, produce the 3 distinct sounds of slap, tone and bass and then use the instrument in composition and both group and solo performances.

Year 8 have been exploring the musical form of Theme and Variation, with written notation and keyboards.

They learnt the theme from Haydn's Sympony No.94 and manipulated it by altering different musical elements, such as rhythm, tempo and dynamics, to create different variations to be performed infront of their peers.

Year 9 have been looking at one of the fundamental compositional techniques used in Western Classical music, counterpoint. They have learned a cantus firmus (given melody) by Salieri and then performed it along with a counterpoint by Schubert.

Students then used what they learned to produce their own complimentary counterpoint to Sarlieri’s cantus firmus which they have performed as soloists and in duets.

Drama

This half term we have been working hard to create amazing work to show to you all!! - Keep your eyes peeled!!

Extra-Curricular Performances

The Drama clubs and Theatre Groups have been working so incredibly hard to get ready to perform for you all. Late night rehearsals and lots of work has gone into these performances. The students have been amazing and have pushed themselves to be better and more competent actors and actresses.

We look forward to welcoming audiences back in the new year.

Year 7 Comedy Sketches

Year 8/9 Student Drama Festival

Blood Brothers

Things I Know to be True

January 2022.

School of Rock

Ladies and Gentlemen.......

We have a School musical coming up in March of next year.

SCHOOL OF ROCK!!!!

Students have auditioned and are looking forward to getting their scripts to learn over the Christmas break!!

In Class Updates

Year 7

Year 7's have been preparing for their first secondary GEM based around the theme of 'War'. They have created a framework of Still Images and are now turning them into performance material.

Year 8

Year 8's have been learning all about Key words and terminology. They have explored these key words practically and have a written GEM to check their understanding to look forward too.

Year 9

Physical Theatre is next up for Year 9! Students have been preparing their work for a number of weeks with some wonderful ideas and skills being used.

Year 10

Year 10 have been preparing for their first written mock exam. They have been learning all about the exam and how to answer questions to the best of their ability.

Year 11

Year 11's have been working tirelessly toward their first practical assessment for their actual GCSE. Devised theatre is coming along nicely and I look forward to them performing soon.

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