Regents Review Autumn 2023

The Regents Review Autumn 2023

DEPARTMENTAL NEWS

Year 9 Food In food, Year 9s are making apple swans, which improve their creativity and knife skills. They are also grilling croque monsieur’s, as well as, learning the importance of kitchen safety and hygiene. Year 9 Photography In Year 9 photography, we are looking at portraiture. Students have looked at several portrait photographers and have researched and annotated the photographer’s work. Students have then begun to take photographs in the style of the photographer they have looked at and try different editing techniques, such as: glitch, double exposure and colour select. To finish their photography rotation, Year 9s are given a self-study to take their own portraiture images, inspired by the artists and work they have been doing in lesson and create a final piece, using an edit they have enjoyed and learned over the past 10 weeks. Theatre for Life All Key Stage 4 performing arts students watched the ‘Your Brain Explained’ performance, led by the local group, ‘Theatre for Life’. Last year, the students took part in an all day workshop with the company, developing the piece and exploring the subject of dementia. It was a phenomenal performance, which the students will remember for a very long time. Thank you to Michelle and the company for letting us be a part of the development experience and seeing the piece of theatre come to fruition .

Rising Stars and GCSE Recital On Thursday 7th December, students from Years 7, 8, 9 and 10, once again performed a concert. This year’s focus was a celebration of individual hard work and effort through a concert mostly dominated by solo performances. We had a range of both instrumental and vocal solos during the course of the evening. Solo instrumentalists included: performances on drum kit, violins, piano and guitars and in addition, there were two vocal solos and one vocal duet. In order to provide an opportunity for more students to perform, the school band also were involved performing two ensemble pieces. There were a variety of pieces performed including songs by legendary composers and songwriters including Lennon and McCartney, Richard Wagner, Mozart and David Bowie to name just a few. Of course, events like this take an awful lot of preparation to put together and this year the Creative Arts Ambassadors took a lead role in much of this. The lighting, presentation and sound was all run by members of Creative Arts Student Ambassadors team. We would like to thank all the parents and students alike, who took the time to brave the cold weather to encourage, prepare or participate in this year’s performance. See you next year.

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