Head's Newsletter 13 October 2017

Year 10 Art students had a wonderful day trip to Kew Gardens, exploring the current sculpture exhibition, "Sculpt at Kew", with over 70 sculptures, from 30 national and international artists situated within the beautiful gardens.

houses. The students experienced the very high, tree top walkway and visited the "Hive" architectural installation, which responds to the activity of bees. To end the day, we visited the gallery showcasing over 1000 botanical paintings by the Victorian artist Marianne North.

The with professional photoshoots using their newly acquired bride cameras, and drawing from observation tasks, capturing the diverse botanical collections in each of the glass students were tasked

Art trips play a key role in the GCSE and it is great to see how much the students enjoyed their trip, particularly developing their fantastic photography skills.