Art Galleries 2025-2026
Term 6 2025-2026
Year 7
Year 7 have been creating some wonderful imaginary school building drawings inspired by Hundertwasser. Students have explored a wide range of lines, shapes, and patterns to create imaginative and unique designs. We have been particularly impressed by the vibrant colours they have used, bringing their artwork to life with creativity and confidence. Well done, Year 7!
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Year 8
Year 8 have ended the year with a piece they have developed from their own research into how animals and patterns are used in (and to inspire) artwork in Non-Western Cultures. They researched either South African Ndebele Artwork, Australian Aboriginal Artwork or Native American Artwork. They have mostly painted and created a tonal drawing but also incorporated oil pastels into some of the patterns too.
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Year 9
Year 9 have used Term 6 to make sculptures of food packets! They have constructed and used paper mache and then carefully observed the fonts, occasionally changing the text on their piece to something more meaningful to them too!
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Year 10
Year 10 are still continuing to develop work in their Personal Project – they have been creating work inspired by artists and experimenting with materials a lot. These projects will conclude at Christmas and form their coursework (60% of their GCSE)
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House Art Competition
This is the second Art Competition of the year for KS3. This time, each year group was given a different brief linked to the learning in their class. Congratulations to everyone who took part, your work is amazing!
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Art Gallery Term 5 2025-2026
Year 7
Year 7 have been working on:
- Oil and pastel landscapes using paint and oil pastels to record local landscape in the style of the Fauvist Artis, Andrew Derain, who explored complementary colours in his work.
- Experimenting with collage, chalk and charcoal exploring the work of local artists who were inspired by the Wiltshire landscape, such as John Piper and Molly Lemon.
Year 8
Year 8 have been working on:
- Large scale monoprints of birds inspired by artist Sue Brown. They made collages to print onoto and then many worked drawing and frottage (rubbings) into them.
- Refining their cutting skills with scissors and making Notan designs (Notan is a Japanese technique that means light and dark). Our project is animals so they created symmetrical animal designs.
Year 9
During terms 4 and 5, Year 9 have been working on large scale (A2) ice cream mixed media pieces inspired by artist Sarah Graham. They scaled up the drawing and then used paint, oil pastels, pen and biro to add tone and colour. They really enjoyed being creative with the materials and decorating the backgrounds too!
Year 10
A few examples of some early work from their personal project – mixed work like observational drawing, artist research, painting, and computer manipulations.
Year 12
Early snips of their most recent personal project work.
Art Gallery Term 4 2025-2026
Year 7 Layered Pieces
Year 7 created these caricatured portraits by building up a variety of cardboard layers to create these fun relief pieces.
Year 8 Clocks
A variety of final pieces were made by year 8 students from the end of their previous Symbolic portraiture project. They made relief and 3D sculptures using cardboard and then decorated the clocks with symbols to do with their own aging (to the grand old age of 12/13!!)
Year 9 Masks
Year 9 have been studying the artist Romuld Hazoume, who creates mask-based sculptures using recycled materials. Year 9 have made their own pieces to conclude their expressive portraiture projects, basing theirs around milk bottles. They had lots of fun making these!!
Year 10 Circus
The flipbook below shows a large variety of independently created work in lots of different styles and media, done for their recently completed Circus Project.
Art Gallery Term 3 2025-2026
Year 7 Frida Kahlo
Year 7 have been researching artist Frida Kahlo and creating their own self-portraits based on her work.
Year 7 Caricature Sculptures
Year 7 have constructed relief caricatures of themselves using a variety of different types of cardboard, learning to use scissors and craft knives and thinking about layering and adding detail to simple designs.
Year 8 Skull Shrines
8p2 have made symbolic pieces based on shrines to dead celebrities. The enjoyed using mixed media to build up details all inspired by Mexico’s Day of the Dead Festival.
Year 8 Vanitas Clocks
Year 8 have constructed Vanitas Clocks – clocks that symbolise time passing in their lives so far, aging and how they’ve grown. They have used card, photos, added in drawings and colour and all of this making came from intitail designs they did in class.
Year 9 Mask Faces
Year 9 have been constructing expressive mask faces using fully recycled materials including milk bottles, tissue, plastic bags and other bits and pieces. These were all inspired by African artist Romauld Hazoume who uses recycled materials to create faces – check him out, his work is fab!!
Year 10 Food Sculptures
Year 10 have been creating papier mache food sculptures with a circus theme. They have worked really hard on these and enjoyed making them.
Year 12 Photo Snips
Some examples from the Year 12 photography class.
Key Stage 3 Art Competition
There were some incredible works of art entered into the Key Stage 3 Art competition at the end of last term. These have been on display in the Atrium.
Congratulations to our winners and everyone who entered!
Art Gallery Term 2 2025-2026
Year 8 – Guernica
Year 8 have completed their fantastic research pages on the Picasso painting Guernica. The Guernica painting is full of symbolism and aligns with their project – Symbolic Portraiture.
As part of this project, they have used the computer for research; had a go at mono-printing and painting with white paint on black paper; and then collaged and added newspaper letters to highlight key words.
Year 8 – Peter Blake
Year 8 have started to create their own pieces based on the work of British Pop Artist Peter Blake.
They have created the mixed media pieces using symbols and imagery that represents them, their lives, hobbies, likes and dislikes. They are not quite complete, but the students are loving making work completely designed by themselves!
Year 9 – Roy Lichtenstein
Year 9 are half way through a project on Expressive Portraiture and they have really enjoyed making work based on Pop Artist Roy Lichtenstein.
Students explored and researched his style then had a go at creating their own expressive self-portraits using pens and colouring pencils. They are loving the project and have done the most fabulous work!
Year 10 – Circus Printing
Year 10 are continuing their first coursework unit based on the Circus theme.
In Term 2 they have explored drawing with chalk and charcoal, creating really successful lino prints and have done lots of work relating to circus text and fonts. They have learnt how to manipulate their images in a digital way – a great way to develop new ideas and compositions!
Year 12 – Photography
Year 12 have been creating some amazing images and exploring a mirror theme.
Art Gallery Term 1 2025-2026
Year 7
This term, Year 7 have began exploring the Formal Elements of Art, making experimental pieces using mixed media.
Year 8
This term, Year 8 have been exploring Pablo Picasso’s Guernica painting, making research papers on the computer. They have also been creating a tonal observation drawings of a skull, learning how skulls are often seen in symbolic still life paintings such as Vanitas.
Year 9
This term, Year 9 have been exploring expressive portraits. Students have created very large scale (A2 size) observational drawings of an expressive face using graphite sticks. Many worked from their own photos and they have had to look closely at detail and proportion. Great work Y9!
Year 10
The Year 10 GCSE students’ first project is based on a Circus theme. Students have been thrown into creating large scale oil pastel drawings and mood boards. These have been developed into monoprints (a new technique) which have been painted using acrylic paints.
Year 12
The year 12 photography students have made a fantastic start to the A Level course. They have been learning about different photographic techniques and being creative with imagery. More recently they have been making pinhole cameras, from shoe boxes and developing their images in the darkroom. There have been some great photographs!