Church of England School
To find out more about the curriculum at Crompton House contact our Associate Curriculum Deputy via s.hegarty@cromptonhouse.org
Church of England School
To find out more about the curriculum at Crompton House contact our Associate Curriculum Deputy via s.hegarty@cromptonhouse.org
Last Thursday, some of our GCSE and A level Art students visited Tropical World in Leeds, with the intention of finding visual information to support their project on ‘The Living World’. At Tropical World we saw a huge variety of tropical plants which were great to photograph as well as draw. There were also some …
The annual Art Exhibition which showcases work from our GCSE and A level Art and Multimedia students took place on Thursday 13 July. There was a fantastic range of Art on display, including paintings, mixed media work, ceramics, digital graphics and animation. It was very well attended and there were lots of positive comments about …
It was an early rise in order to catch our flight to Madrid so well done to the Year 10 and 11 students who arrived at school for 3.30am! Unfortunately, due to an alarm clock error poor Mrs Elphick was almost late, but managed to be out of bed, get a taxi and arrive at …
Year 7 and 8 pupils made poppies to create our Remembrance display at the front of school. The poppies were formed in clay then fired in the kiln before being painted with acrylic paints and varnished. Over 100 individual poppies formed our display. Well done to all the pupils involved!
Year 9 Applied Art and Year 12 Art classes made a trip to Manchester Museum to support their coursework on the theme of natural forms. At the museum the students were able to draw and photograph a range of exhibits which included a huge elephant skeleton, skulls and bones, shells and fossils and living creatures such a lizards …
The annual Art Exhibition which showcases the work of our GCSE and A level students took place on July 7th in the school hall. The evening was well-attended by students and family and there was a range of work on display from large scale sculptures to film and digital work. All the students from our Art …
The Year 8 pupils who have chosen to study one of the Art GCSE courses next year took a trip to Yorkshire Sculpture Park on Friday 3rd July. The aim of the trip was to get to know the other pupils in the class and also to look at a variety of sculpture in the …
A level Fine Art students have recently completed their final pieces for their examination unit. They had 15 hours to create their art work on the theme of expressions, relationships or everyday objects. The resulting paintings and drawings are stunning and will be displayed at our Summer Exhibition on July 7th.
Year 7 pupils have created this stunning collage as part of the school’s ‘British Values Week”. The small faces were made using a wax monoprinting technique. Most Year 7 pupils have completed at least one face for the collage which measures 2 x 1 metres.
As part of their project on man-made forms, the class has been studying the work of American Artists Tal Avitzur and Gordon Bennett who use junk materials to create robotic forms. The class collected their own materials and made some amazing robots for themselves. One pupil even managed to include a battery and light bulb …
