Year 9 cherry drawings today, delicious!! 🍒

Superb mixed media shell drawings created by year 8 this morning. Layering pencil continuous line with biro mark-making, fineliner tones and coffee washes! Lovely! 🐚

Year 7, 8 & 9 are enjoying Mrs Wilkinson’s lunch time drawing club this term. So far we have created various surprise folds, oil pastel fruit drawings and talked a LOT about our love for drawing!

Beautiful year 11 lino printing…

Mrs Rudd is particularly proud of her 7 Earth Van Gogh homework pages, the quality is outstanding! Well done year 7!

Year 8 loved painting waves this week, here are just a few, aren’t they incredible! Well done year 8!

Our current year 6 students are showing such superb drawing skills using coloured pencils, as usual. Well done year 6!

We are thrilled to announce the 2024 Christmas Card Competition winners for Primary. Let’s start with the two highly commended entries - Henry y4 and Grace y3, well done!!

Primary winners for the 2024 Christmas Card Competition are - 1st place Daniel y6, 2nd place Hope y5, 3rd place Eloise y6. Well done!

We are excited to announce the 2024 Christmas Card Competition winners for Secondary. Let’s start with the two highly commended entries - Maya y9 and Sylvie y7, well done!!

Secondary winners for the 2024 Christmas Card Competition are - 1st place Genevieve y7, 2nd place Jasmine y7, 3rd place George y9. Well done!

When year 9 all need easels and we discover cupboard doors are just as effective! Great painting lesson yesterday, fantastic atmosphere!

Lovely to see all of our Christmas Card Competition winners on display in the art corridor, students are enjoying seeing who has won!

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The y10 GCSE art students are having a fabulous time on their trip today, at the Natural History Museum in Tring!

Beautiful drawings are being created on the trip today at the Natural History Museum in Tring, our students are amazing!

Y10 artists are experimenting with the fineliner and water technique during a specimen workshop this afternoon, at the Natural History Museum in Tring!

What a superb art trip we had, our y10 students were incredible in every way and the museum staff and members of the public commented on how talented their drawings were! A brilliant day!

Year 7 are creating fabulous gargoyle drawings this week using oil pastels, the standard is superb! Well done year 7!

It’s exhibition day! Pop along between 4:30-6:30pm to see some truly fantastic GCSE and A-Level work!