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Arts Award
Over the past year, a group of 22 Year 8 students successfully completed the Arts Award at Bronze Level and are all now going on to complete their Silver award.
A further 26 have also enrolled to take part in the Bronze for this year and will be mentored by the original bronze girls. This Arts Award course offers an exciting opportunity for them to extend their creative skills and artistic horizons, whatever their interest or talents. The Arts Award is an accredited qualification offered at levels 1, 2 & 3 (Bronze, Silver & Gold) on the National Qualifications Framework which supports young people in their development as Artists and Arts leaders. Taking part in an Arts Award helps young artists to develop their creative skills and their ability to communicate well and lead projects. An Arts Award is also useful for getting future further education opportunities or jobs – in the Arts and in other fields. Each year after all the successful candidates have passed their award, we hold an annual Celebration evening at the college to present the students with their certificates and display all of their work.
There are 4 main areas that the students will be involved in:
Taking part in an Arts Activity – This can include any Arts Activity they enjoy and want to improve their skills and extend their interest in. You can do anything that counts as art…….Animation, digital art, architecture, landscapes, environments, ceramics, craft, design, fine art, graphic art, illustration, live art, moving image, film & video, photography, public art.
Going to an Arts event – Attending at least one Arts event. Recording their views and collecting information, tickets & programmes and sharing these with others.
Arts Heroes and Heroines – Researching an Artist or Arts practitioner that they admire and researching the story of their life and work.
Arts Apprenticeship – Sharing their skills and interest with the rest of the group by helping to run a workshop or presenting to others.
The Arts Award will continue to run every year as Sir Jonathan North has now become an Arts Award Centre. If you were unable to take part in this year’s Arts Award, there will be another opportunity for more students next year.
Miss Rhodes – Art Teacher & Arts Awards Advisor
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Clubs and Activities
The art department run a variety of extra-curricular activities including a 2D and 3D art club and a digital art club at lunchtimes and film & animation club after school.
Please click here to view the art extra-curricular timetable.
Art Trips & Visits
The art department runs various trips throughout the year where students have the opportunity to learn about many different artists and to view their work. Students are also encouraged to practice their own drawing skills on these trips and to visually document artists they find expiring. In 2009 there will be an Art residential trip that will run in year 11 for 5 days to enable students to develop skills and look at the work of Artist over a more concentrated time period.Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
On Monday 28 January forty Year 8 students visited Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery as a reward from their teachers for their efforts in Art. The girls were extremely focussed during the morning on their art task, looking at Pre-Raphaelite Art and drawing for a whole 2 hours. Some of the girls also recorded this live podcast describing what they had seen at the gallery. For some students it was their first visit to an Art Gallery and it was a very valuable experience.
To listen to a podcast recorded by our students whilst in the Birmingham Art Gallery please click here
New Walk Museum - Leicester
We feel that Sir Jonathan North Community College offers a wide range of opportunities to develop our Expressive Arts skills, therefore when we were invited to this extra curriculum activity we jumped at the chance. The trip to the New Walk Museum was to see an exhibition which was a collection of art pieces by various artists, including Henri Matisse and Lucian Freud. We studied all the pictures and selected three of the most inspirational. By Ella Stokes and Rosie Cleere
Rufford Craft Centre
Back in February 2007, 40 Year 8 students visited Rufford Craft Centre set in the grounds of Sherwood Forest in Newark for a variety of activities with a particular focus on Ceramics. During year 8 students study a wide range of disciplines, including Digital Animation, Printing & Ceramics. To compliment these schemes of work, we arranged for this visit.The students firstly had a guided tour around the Sculpture Gardens within the grounds, taking photographs and also doing some sketching in their sketchbooks of the remains of the old Abbey. Then following that, the students all took place in a Ceramic workshop which was led by an Ceramic Artist. Then in the afternoon they had an opportunity to visit the Exhibition which was currently on display exhibiting local Artists work.
Please click here to view photos of the Rufford Art Trip
Co-operative Young Filmmakers Festival 2007
Due to the success of “Stoned”, a short film made by three Sir Jonathan North students Felicia Linder, Alice Lacey-Ward & Suzanne Fish. We were invited to attend the Co-operative Young Filmmakers Festival at Bradford National Media Museum on Friday 12 October to be presented with an award. Accompanying us were the year 10 Animation class, which also includes students from the Lancaster School as well as Sir Jonathan North; we were very proud to be attending our first partnership trip with both schools.
The Festival was a huge success, offering the history of animation, photography exhibitions, TV Studio installations and artistic make-up for film and television workshops! We also enjoyed Dinosaurs Alive in 3D at the IMAX Cinema – a first for many of the students and staff!
The Tate Gallery (Liverpool)
On Monday 30th June 2008, a total of 80 Year 9 students visited the Liverpool Tate as an introduction to the GCSE course.
The day was a great opportunity for students to see Art work from many different artists worldwide, particularly those students who hadn’t visited an Art Gallery before. The visiting exhibition of Gustav Klimt that was currently on during our visit couldn’t have been more perfect as this is the artist which all of the year 9 students had spent studying the whole of the previous term. This really had an impact on their whole experience, as they were able to put the art work of Klimts into context.
The students were extremely well behaved through out the day and it was a very valuable start to there GCSE experience and induction into their first summer project.
