Spectacular Eco-Systems

Year 6 pupils from St Marks Primary School have recently been welcomed into the MediaArts Department at the Ravensbourne School. They enjoyed working on a cross-curricular project planned by Geography and Art to produce a banner based on a rainforest eco-system. The children worked in oil pastel and collage and each produced a drawing of a leaf and rainforest animal. The results can now be seen brightening up a previously dark wall in Bromley Library.

To see more of our community projects please follow the link below;

http://ravensbourne.e4education.co.uk/page_viewer.asp?page=Wider+Community&pid=45

Media Arts and Languages - Amazing Architecture

Four lucky Year 7 students were chosen to take part in an exciting MediaArts and Languages project. Joshua Read, Maxine Almond, Tabitha Wade-Scriven and Michael Adams joined PGCE Art Teacher Alicia Fairburn in the challenge to make some decorative art work for the Languages corridor. The pieces had to represent a famous landmark from France. The students choose to work on two designs. The first designs were based on Sleeping Beauty’s Castle in Disneyland Paris, the second design is based on Gustave Eiffel's famous Eiffel Tower. The work
is now proudly on display for all to see. Well done!

To see more of our community projects please follow the link below;
http://ravensbourne.e4education.co.uk/page_viewer.asp?page=Wider+Community&pid=45

Applied Art G.C.S.E. Exam

jewellery by Mandy Mortlock

The staff in the MediaArts Faculty would like to take the opportunity to thank all the students who have just sat their end-of-year Applied Art G.C.S.E. exam. They were a credit to the faculty and their work was a testament to two years of hard work from the students and their teacher Miss Underhill.

Well done guys!

To see their efforts please visit the Art Gallery page on our school website or visit their online Flickr Gallery by following the links below;

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ravensbournemediaarts/sets/72157604771552642/

Raglan Primary School Community Project

Pupils from Raglan Primary School were given the chance to plan and organise their own Mayday school fate. Students have been creating their own products, and learning about media production as part of a MediaArts Community Project.

The Primary Links Project which is lead by Community Coordinator Lynsey Anderton brings together a wide range of people and disciplines to make a truly cross-curricular experience.

The project has taken place through two sessions based at Raglan Primary School and two sessions based at The Ravensbourne School. Business studies teacher Mr Connolly visited Raglan School to talk about setting up a business and explore business ideas with Year 4 pupils, whilst MediaArts Technician Sarah Beven led a portrait drawing workshop. Miss Brayley, Mrs Harrington and the Year 4 students from Raglan School then visited The Ravensbourne School to learn how to use our new screen-printing facilities, to transfer their portraits to canvas bags (which they will sell at their school fete).

The project has been filmed by Media Artist Nick Goulds assisted by his hardworking crew of Year 4 Raglan pupils, who will also return to the school to assist him in editing the film.

To see more of the community work that takes place at The Ravensbourne School please follow this link;

http://ravensbourne.e4education.co.uk/page_viewer.asp?page=Wider+Community&pid=45

Global Street Art Club

‘Global Street Art Club’ has been founded by Art and Design Teachers Ms Wright and Miss Scruton. It is an extension of a recent Key Stage 3 Scheme-of-Work entitled Body Decoration and Street Art in which Students are encouraged to study diverse cultural visuals and traditions from Maori Art to Urban Street Art.

A trip to the current street art exhibition at Tate Modern is planned for the Summer Term.

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/streetart/default.shtm

The club has been immensely popular and it is something pupils love to do, don’t just take our word for it:

“It is a good way to keep us out of trouble and lunch and it stops us from putting graffiti around the school! We can learn how to make decorative lettering and use different art materials.”

Harry Franklin, Year 8

“We’ve learnt how to do graffiti style lettering and relief work.”

Joshua Silk, Year 8

“We get to choose what we do and we are learning how to make things”

Taylor Jezzard, Year 8

Btec Students Visit Photofusion

Btec National Diploma Students in Art and Design visited Photofusion in Brixton as part of a unit of work which teaches them about Darkroom Techniques.

Photofusion is an open access darkroom and gallery space in London. As part of their trip Students got to see the Pavilion Commissions exhibition which displayed photographs from a prestigious fine art photography award. They also took part in tours of the darkroom and digital suite and a professional lighting workshop headed by a freelance photographer.

“At Photofusion we learnt about all the different processes that occur in a darkroom, such as colour and black and white processing. We saw how a professional darkroom worked and the different equipment that is used. We learnt about the business of Freelance Photography and setting up a studio.”

Isha Thomas, Year 12

“The layout of the exhibition was good and the images were intriguing. They weren’t of models, like magazine photography. They showed a different aspect of photography. Each image in the gallery was different and each photographer had a very different set of images. The exhibition was interesting and diverse.”

Hannah Rickards, Year 12

Students Design a Fantastic New Poster

Year 12 BTEC National Diploma Students have designed and photographed their own take on a poster issued by the School Libraries Association. The poster was commissioned by Librarian Mrs Roberts, she was very pleased with the results and said that “The bright colours they have used and the way the student’s characters show through makes for a truly excellent poster.” The final layout, made by Charlie Watts has been printed at A1 size, framed and displayed around the school. An additional leaflet designed by Sacha Irlam-Wills is now being used to advertise the library’s opening hours and services.

Gifted and Talented Art Club

Gifted and Talented Art Club runs every Thursday night and is aimed at Key Stage Three students with a flair for Art and Design. Here are the opinions of some of the attendees.

I come to Gifted and Talented Art Club because I love art and I want to do more art and become good at it.

We do lots of stuff at the club. At the moment we are making maps. 1 piece of a big map is given to every student to paint and sew into. When they are finished they will be put together to make one big map.

I enjoy the way that everyone in Gifted and Talented Art Club are friends. Everybody helps each other and gives each other ideas.

Basak Kaynak, 7LO

I come to Gifted and Talented Art Club because I enjoy art and think it’s fun. At the moment we are making a big map. In the past we have done origami, printmaking and have entered a poster design competition where we had to design a poster for Bromley Council’s Environment day encouraging people to walk to school.

I enjoy getting to do more art and doing the projects that Mr Johnson and Miss Underhill set for us. I think Art Club is great.

Jenny Jones, 7LO

To see more images of gifted and talented art club please follow this link to our Flickr Gifted and Talented Gallery.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ravensbournemediaarts/sets/72157605035714359/

The Somerville Adventure Playground Mural

Our mural will replace exisiting artwork at the playground

by Lara Page

Year 12 BTEC National Diploma in Art and Design are creating a mural for The Somerville Adventure Playground in New Cross. We individually designed our own ideas for the mural and then came together as a group to combine our ideas in order to design the final mural.

We have worked well as a team and even visited the playground to ask the children what they would like on their mural. We were shown round by Reece and Connor who told us about the games the children played, showed us the football pitch where Millwall come to give football lessons.

The Somerville Adventure Playground is a registered charity and was founded thirty years ago. It caters for children from five to fifteen. A lot of the current playground artwork dates back to the 80’s and the art work on the football pitch is mostly graffiti based. It will be nice to make a mural that is big and bright and appeals to the younger children who spend more of their time in the lower playground near the hut.

We are currently having meetings and developing the work. We hope that the mural will be finished by the end of June.