Thema: Extracurricular

For the unit on Groups, we started the year in art with each pupil trying to draw a self portrait then mix and add paint. They then used coloured card cut out and collaged together to make themselves a body. All the portraits were exhibited together and illustrated well how ...

For the unit on explorers, we looked at painted portraits of famous explorers, paying attention to the pose, facial expression, clothes, objects and backgrounds chosen and what they communicated about the kind of exploration undertaken. Pupils were then asked to draw and colour a portrait of themselves as an explorer, ...

For the architecture unit, we looked at architectural drawings, paying attention to the symbolic conventions and scale used. Constrained by a fixed floor size, pupils were asked to draw plans for a house they'd like to live in.  They then measured and cut cardboard to make floors, walls, stairs and ...

For the food webs unit, we first all looked at animal camouflage. Pupils were given a color copy of a landscape photograph and asked to draw the outline of a suitable animal for that environment, cut it out then with colored pencils, use appropriate texture, tone and color to help ...

For the body systems unit, students glued pasta onto black paper to try to show the human bone structure. They also worked with newspaper, masking tape and paper mache paste to roll, tape and assemble a human figure. Students then mixed paints to create a skin colour to paint over ...

For the transport unit pupils made drawings and collages of vehicles before constructing their own 3d planes and other vehicles from recycled cardboard and plastic materials. Finally each vehicle was painted in detail with bright colours. [gallery columns="4" ids="3785,3784,3783,3782,3781,3780,3779,3778,5351,5350,5344,5347,5346,5345,5349,5348"]  

For the unit on migration, we discussed the pull factors of migration and looked at artists representations of utopias. After thinking about what elements would be important for their ideal place to live, each pupil then went about trying to draw and color their own utopias in as much detail ...

For the stories unit, pupils first of all practiced skills at blending and modifying color tones with paint before creating background landscape paintings which later included trees, story characters and other props that came together to create a small model of a stage set that could be used to help ...

It was a Special Edition of our Casual Concert series last Tuesday. And what a treat it was! Five of our most gifted students rehearsing and performing jointly with three professional musicians of the Berliner Symphoniker. It all started at 1.30 in the afternoon with three hours of intense rehearsals ...

Next week's Casual Concert, on March 8 is going to be a true ear opener. Three members of the Berliner Symphoniker are coaching our Mixed Ensemble (9th-11th Grade) to perform works by Handel, Bach, Haydn and György Kurtág, a contemporary composer who is celebrating his 90th birthday this year. In ...