CREATIVE INDUSTRIES WEEK

The creative arts and technology department staged a creative industries week during October.
We had an exhibition showing a huge variety of courses, jobs and careers involved in the creative arts. We showcased courses from various Universities and students could choose from a variety of leaflets and information booklets relating to these courses and careers.

The week finished off in style with an experience day where various professional people were invited into the department and they were kind enough to share their skills, information, techniques and enthusiasm with the year 9 students.

We invited Maria Freeman , the fashion buyer for TU clothing at Sainsbury's,who set the students a task to try designing a range of clothing of their choice.

 

Hype clothing, a fashion design house, specialising in t-shirt design sent in loads of promotional pieces and videos of their ranges and asked the students to design their own t-shirt for a competition. They sent in some prizes for the best 10 in each group but the final  first overall prize was to get the winning design, selected by Hype themselves, to be made up into a t-shirt.

 

We had an illustrator/cartoonist who explained the way his mind worked and how his images evolve on the paper, the year 9 students were encouraged to have a go.

 

In the Hairdressing studio the students watched videos of fashion styles and were able to try some of these out. 

 

Senior Graphic Designer Viv Greywolde from AKQA in London, he has designed for a variety of companies including Nike.

 

Ed Hull, a personnal trainer and sports nutritionist helped the students learn about healthy eating, discovering how we are mislead by food packaging and showing them just how much sugar was in a can of coke!

They all made fruit smoothies

 

 

 YEAR 7 VISIT

 

DAMIEN HIRST

EXHIBITION

On Wednesday 9th October the whole of Year 7 went to visit the Damien Hirst Exhibition at the Walsall Art Gallery. Half of the year group visited in the morning and the other half after lunch, which meant that a total of 241 children were able to experience the pieces that they were studying during their art lessons.

 

 We saw the gruesome photograph of  "With Dead Head" as well as "Away from the Flock, the sheep preserved in formaldyhyde,( which was one of the favourites). Year 7 experienced the size and scale of the triptch "Pharamacology, Physioloolgy and Pathology" and the beautiful spin painting"Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree 2002"