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Newsletter 6 - May 2024
Art
Year 8 Coil Pot design
I have included examples of the
fabulous artwork our Key Stage 3
and 4 pupils are producing in their
sketchbooks and constructing in clay.
Year 7 are analysing Sgraffito,
Tonality, Texture, Watercolour,
Pattern, Faberge Eggs, and Japanese
Ceramicist, Takuro Kuwata. They are
also making their amazing ceramic
Pinch Pots. Year 8 pupils are building
their Coil Pots in clay, studying the
artwork of the Minoan Dynasty,
Graphic Design, and Chinese artist,
Ai Weiwei. Year 9 are developing
their Surrealism studies, looking at
Architecture, trainer designs, and
paper engineering. Year 10 Fine
Art pupils are successfully working
in oil paint with beautiful results,
and Art, Craft and Design have just
constructed fabulous cardboard
models for a new De La Warr Pavilion
bandstand.
Please do have a look at our pupils’
wonderful artwork on the St Richard’s
Art Department website here and on
our X (Twitter) site here, both of which
are updated regularly. Thank you and
keep creating!
Mr Peachment (Subject Leader)
Year 9
The Scream Reimagined
Year 9 Fish Ceramic
Year 9 John Brickels Robot
Year 9 Steampunk
Year 8 Coil Pot design
Year 10
DLWP bandstand design
Year 10 Glazed Natural
Form Ceramic
Geography
Year 7 fieldwork trips
Year 7 geographers have nearly completed their topic about ‘Our World and Local Area’
with a successful virtual field trip to the town centre, and an actual field trip to Galley Hill
View. This field trip enabled pupils to see how we can collect data such as house type, traffic
counts and land use. Presenting data and analysing is a key skill that they also practised.
Our next topic will be Kenya!
Garden Club
All the hard work seems to be paying off as the garden is looking fantastic! All
the weeds have gone from the two main plots and lots of vegetables have been
planted. Pupils are growing potatoes, onions, peas, broad beans and carrots.
Lots of watering required! A massive thank you to Ms Carter, our fantastic
volunteer gardening teacher, for all her time and support.
Year 11 revision
With revision well underway for the upcoming exams, we remind pupils that
we run a revision session after school on Tuesdays and before school on
Wednesday mornings which run through different topics that are coming up.
We are now focused upon Paper 1 and Paper 2. Please note that we will be
running a session which will run through the entire content of Paper 2 in half
term - Thursday, 30th May from 0900-1100. We hope that everyone will attend
and gain the most from this great session which pupils in the past have found
really useful. Please make use of all the support available to you.
Mrs Hoyle, Subject Leader Geography