S3 pupils began working on their design ideas this morning.

Aimee is looking at the using paper and old book pages to create a dress. She was experimenting with weaving and pleating paper:

Kira was collecting and organising a range of fabric samples that would suit her idea of a swan themed design:

Mitchell is working on a rainforest themed mask / headpiece. He collected a selection of leaves to use and varnished them with PVA:

Brett is going to design a dragon themed helmet style headpiece. He was drawing out some initial ideas to work on:

S4/6 artists are hard at work on their expressive folios. Here are a few of their works in progress:

Each pupil in senior school art has their own box for equipment and materials. They were designing the front of the boxes with their names or initials:

S5/6 historians are studying the journey to democracy in 19th Century Britain. This morning they are revising the 1867 Reform Act and asking whether it was really a leap in to the dark or a well orchestrated political manoeuvre.

S5 have been making a great start to the Higher French course. This morning, they were looking at verbs and negative expressions.

S3 historians have done some outstanding presentations this afternoon. Each one had investigated an aspect of or related to, ancient Olympia.

S4 are studying the heart. Here one of them is listening to his heartbeat.

S3 are enjoying the speed of their new iPads as they each research one aspect of the Ancient Games.

S3/4 artists started on their design topic this week. We discussed the design brief, process and constraints as well looking at lots of examples of design folios.

Pupils then started investigating and researching a variety of themes for their projects.

All pupils in senior school art get their own box where they can keep equipment and resources relating to their work. They have been designing the front of their boxes.