From Art and Photography …

Year 8 

Some wonderful Green man illustrations to celebrate from Year 8. Well done all!

Mrs Page

Year 9

Here is a selection from the wonderful Elements mood board work 9A/9N have produced this week. These were created to inspire element based fashion designs.

Well done for all your hard work.

Mrs Francis

Some more Year 9 fashion mood boards based on the elements from Miss Sykes’ class. Excellent work girls.

Year 9 have also been designing insect inspired fashion designs this week. Some wonderful imaginative ideas for the cat walk.

Mrs Page

Well done to Year 9 for these fantastic artist research pages on their chosen Surrealist shoe designers.

Mrs Bird

Wonderful imaginative converse designs with inventive backgrounds. Well done Year 9.

Mrs Page

Year 10D GCSE Art work

Here is a selection from our Fine Art students this week. These are beautiful cake and sweet studies inspired by artist research and original photographs taken by the students. The results are fantastic. Well done to you all.

Mrs Francis

Year 11 Bridging work into Year 12 Fine Art

Here is a sample of this week’s work created by our Year 11 students. Well done to all of you and keep up the great work.

Mrs Francis

Year 12

Personal Investigation

Photography

Some eye catching individual photography projects work by our Year 12s. Poppy Parfitt’s work is above and below is work by Charlotte Ells and Elianne Grant. Fabulous work!

From Food Technology …

Year 7 Fruity Flapjacks – Year 7 found a baking recipe that didn’t involve flour which is still difficult to source.

Year 8 Fruit crumble – lovely to see homegrown fruit from the garden or allotment being used.

Year 9 Home Cooking Journey – lovely to see where in the world the students food journey has taken them.

Year 10 Lemon Meringue Thumbprint Cookies – demonstrating students knowledge of the function of ingredients.

From Design and Technology …

Year 7

Year 7 students have been carrying out research, planning and designing their photo holders for their chosen customers in Product Design.

The product analysis of a photo frame is by Lizzy Pottinger. The Design ideas are by Millie Lynch, Laila Mirza, Elsa Hayhurst and Amelia Costa.

Mrs Finch

Mrs Schillaci-Rowland

Year 8

Year 8 students have been designing eco-speakers for their chosen customers in Product Design. Work below by Olivia Hick, Abbie Norris, Isabel Avery, Lexie Harrington and Chloe Simpson.

Mrs Finch

Mrs Schillaci-Rowland

Year 9

Year 9 have been working on their graphical drawing skills. The following students have been completing isometric sketches:

Emily Rhodes, Jessica Sanderson, Ella Cannell, Megan Linkson and Sarah Lowe

Olivia Baldwin

Lettering and shapes using one point perspective completed by Olivia Baldwin.

Mrs Finch

Florence Davies
Product Analysis of special occasion stationery…super annotation of key factors! Also, amazing development sheet which is similar to what would be expected at GCSE-well done!

Mrs Schillaci-Rowland

Year 10

Holly Yeoman
Excellent notes about Systems and Control

Leni Nicholson
Excellent, detailed notes about Mechanisms – excellent highlighting of keywords to show understanding of technical vocabulary.

Mrs Schillaci-Rowland

Year 11 Bridging work into Year 12 Product Design

Below are great notes from two prospective Year 12 students.

Albie

Mrs Schillaci-Rowland

From Textiles …

Year 7

This is a fantastic Year 7 textiles homework by Clara Thorp.

Craft projects in lockdown…

• “Before lockdown we bought some fabric and last week I finished making three pairs of pyjama bottoms and one pair of shorts for my family. Attached is a picture of us all wearing them. Thank you for everything you have taught me.”

Olivia Baldwin (Year 9)

Olivia’s Pyjama Bottoms presentation is also below.

• Becky Kennard (Year 11) knitted this jumper while in lockdown. She is over the moon with how it turned out! Becky has also been sewing masks.

From German …

Year 7

Year 7 have continued their work in German, learning new vocabulary and grammar as well as Listening tasks and completing their German Learners Guide. It is much easier learning a Language in the classroom but the independent learning in Year 7 has been impressive! Well done Year 7!

From Spanish …

Year 12

As part of their ongoing Spanish work, Year 12 Spanish students have been using an online listening diary in the form of a Google Doc, to log the Spanish listening they do outside of regular classwork. Undertaking this kind of extra practice is a key part of independent language learning at KS5 and really helps listening skills. I check the listening diaries most days as it is in a shared class area for us on Google Drive.

As of Tuesday 19th May, Sofia Gibbins has clocked up 1,852 minutes of independent listening. She has done this in a variety of ways: watching Spanish TV series, making and listening to her own Spanish music playlists online, listening to Spanish national radio stations, and finding and listening to a variety of Spanish podcasts for higher-level language learners. She has done this gradually by doing some every day since lockdown, incorporating it into her day as an activity in itself or while she is doing other work or household chores.

This will be of enormous help to Sofia as she continues her A Level Spanish studies, allowing her to really engage with Spanish language culture and media, and improve her listening and vocabulary. Brilliant work!

Sofia Gibbins’ Spanish Listening Diary

From English …

Year 9

Below is Emily Sheffield’s creative writing – it was part of a story based on the theme of loss.

Emily Sheffield

Year 11 Bridging work into Year 12 A level English Literature

Below are examples of work that Year 11 students have been doing in preparation for studying A level literature. They have been reading modern poetry and selecting poems that they particularly enjoy.

Personal Poem Anthology – Ruby Peters

Poetry Anthology – Jessica Court

From Drama …

Year 8

Last week’s drama task involved creating a costume design. Below are lovely designs for Macbeth and Lady Macbeth by Alice Reeves and Suzy Anderson.

The optional ambitious task was to have a go at re-creating the play, using anything they had at home! Here is one of the videos of Macbeth Ada Fleming has created.

From Geography …

Year 9

Below is a sample of pages from Josie English’s tour design. An amazing piece of work!

From Computing …

KS3 students were given the task of producing a presentation on any topic of interest, demonstrating a range of skills using either Powerpoint or Google Slides. There was an interesting range of work covering everything from What to do in Lockdown, How to look after your pets, Sports, Baking and the Significance of the number 5. Here are some examples: Morse Code (Louisa S 9M), Space & Rockets (Venus S 8P), Deaf Awareness Week (Chloe S 8P), Army (Angel W 9G) and When did Rock stop being pop? (Katie W).

Louisa – Morse Code

Venus – Space and rockets

Chloe – Deaf Awareness Week

Angel – Army

Katie – Did Rock Stop Being Pop?

Well done to everyone for all their efforts.

From History …

Year 7

Year 7 have been exploring the wider impact of the Industrial Revolution. This work is by Eloise.

Year 8

Year 8 have been learning about British rule in India during the 19th century and the consequences of this for India and for Britain. This work is by Rebecca and Freya.

Year 11 Bridging work into Year 12 A level History

Year 11 students have been preparing for their History A-level course by reading the work of historian Helen Castor on Elizabeth I. These notes are by Emily, Lorna and Maddie.

From Maths …

Year 9

For some work on data collection, Kim Pittaccio designed a survey to ask how people have changed their leisure activities in lockdown, which she sent out to 80 people!

This week we have been doing work on trigonometry and Stephanie Moor has produced some excellent work on finding missing sides in triangles.