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During February half term, 78 students from Year 10-13 and 10 teachers travelled to Claviere in Italy for the school ski trip. The journey passed quickly, chatting, watching films and sleeping. We arrived on Saturday afternoon to settle into our lovely hotel, do our ski fit for ski equipment and early bed!
The weather was sunny all week, chilly at times but we did get snow on Thursday, making for some wet conditions on our final skiing day! We all had such great fun – the instructors were all so experienced and knowledgeable and everyone made great progress. The beginners were on red slopes on the second day!
We enjoyed our evening activities too; bowling, pizza night at a local pizzeria and karaoke – thank you to those amazing singers, treating us to some classic songs! Our hotel was in great location, just a short walk from the slopes, in the middle of a quiet town. We were treated to some great food; pasta, lasagne, burgers, hot dogs, chicken, salad, soup etc! We were so proud of the progress everyone made and for showing great resilience on some very challenging slopes, which at times were icy and covered of moguls!
We hope you all had a great time and made some lovely memories with your friends! Thank you to all the staff who came on the trip and accompanied the students during half term and Ms Young for her support with the administration and finance.
Year 7 have shown so much enthusiasm designing their pen animal illustrations. I think you would agree that they have designed some wonderful, imaginative designs.
Well done!
Year 8
‘Mexican Day of the Dead Festival’
‘Dia De Los Muertos’
Year 8 have made wonderful, creative, colourful Clay skulls inspired by the Mexican festival.
Year 9
Flight mixed media pages
Year 9 have been exploring a variety of materials – layering watercolours, markmaking with pen, colour pencil blending and collage. The students have produced beautifully presented double pages based on the theme flight. This project is leading to a selection of surreal outcomes from box Art, Playing card designs and mobiles. We shall post their final pieces after Easter.
Year 10
Year 10 have been working on studies of sweet treats. They have been exploring a range of media and creating colourful compositions. The next stage of their project is ‘Meal times’ which is leading towards Final individual outcomes for Year 10 mock exams.
We are looking forward to sharing their outcomes with you in future PressTales.
Year 12 Photography
Exciting collection of Year 12 photography exploring portraiture, focal points, exposure and contrast.
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Congratulations to the cast of Matilda Jr the Musical, what an incredible production! The double cast performed 4 performances over the last 3 days to sold out audiences who were blown away by their talent! The Wormwoods were hilarious, the Trunchbull’s terrifying and both Matilda’s demonstrating incredible skill and talent! The named children carried the show with their hard work on vocals and routines and brilliant lines responding to the events. The chorus got better and better every show building the atmosphere with their energy! In the last week we brought in our technical team and backstage crew who were so dependable and professional! A particular mention to Aston Williams in Year 12 on the sound desk multi-tasking like a pro! The audience have been blown away with the standard of this production and could see all the hard work that each member has committed to this since casting last Summer! A huge well done to everyone involved and thank you to all the staff, family and friends who came
Along to support us!
We will print another article once we have Year 12 photographs in and all of this pictures will also later be on the website to view.
Miss Mack, Miss Sargent and Mrs Hardiman,Drama and Music
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Year 7 have been studying the Illustrative Artwork of Alfred Basha. They have created research pages using the departments ‘ARTY’ outline which breaks the information into paragraphs;
A -Analysis R-Research T -Techniques -Y Your opinions and thoughts.
The ‘ARTY’ template has been a great success and used across all key stages by the Art Department. Students have said it has helped them to plan and understand how to complete a research page.
Well done Year 7 *
The Art Department
Year 10 Art GCSE – Observational studies
Year 10 students set up still lifes of mixed colourful vegetables and photographed from various angles. They demonstrated beautiful colour pencil blending, layering of tones and a selection of compositions.
We are so pleased with their wonderful results.
Mrs Page and Mrs Harmer
Year 10 and 12 Print Workshops 2024
We have run two very successful printing workshops this term. The Year 10 learnt the process of lino printing producing a vast amount of exciting prints for their sketchbooks.
The Year 12 learnt about procion dye prints using a screen and squeegee, lino and drypoint etching. The results were beautiful and will now be developed using further media.
All students acted maturely and were inquisitive about learning more knowledge about the techniques.
Year 10 Print Workshop
Year 12 Print Workshop
A celebration across all key stages
A collection of Art and Photography work currently on display:
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Hertfordshire based artist Amy Pettingill is running an art competition for artists aged 11-16. The theme is COLOUR you need to create your own artwork that celebrates colour & brings joy, positive vibes!
Presdales had a runner up last year who won a workshop with Amy and 6 highly commended art students.
Please see the flyer below for more information.
We would love you to apply as we are confident we have lots of potential winners that Amy could choose from! We are lucky to teach such talented and creative students. We encourage you to enter.
The DEADLINE is Thursday 29th February 2024, photograph your work in good light and email to contact@amypettingill.co.uk
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