SCHOOL VISITS Our team managed to capitalise on the ‘faults’ made by the other teams in the Quiz Round, leading to overall success for Aylesbury Grammar School, who were declared
Art - Year 10 & 12 visit the Tate Modern Gallery, London
champions. AGS were presented with the National Schools’ Geology Challenge Trophy 2018 and each winning team member was awarded a Junior Candidate Fellowship of The Geological Society. It was especially pleasing to have won the competition for Mrs Jiggins Highlights of the day were the
in her final year at AGS and we
judges’ own presentations,
cannot thank her enough for not
on various geological themed
only enabling us to take part in
topics, close to their hearts, from
the competition but also for all her
preserving and presenting geological
years of dedication, hard work and
samples, to civil engineering, with
fantastic teaching, on behalf of all
a particularly engaging favourite of
her students.
ours, by Mr Timothy Gregory, from Bristol University, focusing on his work on meteorites.
She will be greatly missed! George Ramsey – Phillips 11
These professional presentations also highlighted the skills that are needed to deliver truly engaging talks; by conveying the speakers’ utter enthusiasm for their subjects, we were equally enthused, whilst being thoroughly entertained.
This year once again, the AGS Art Department organised a trip to London to visit the Tate Modern Art Gallery on the 20th September 2017. Students travelled by coach into London and walked a short distance to the gallery. Once inside the gallery students had the opportunity to tour the permanent displays of art work in the main gallery until midday, taking in some of Britain’s most diverse and contemporary works of Art. After taking lunch the group then headed to the gallery’s new extension, the Switch House. Here there were opportunities to experience installations made of many different materials; as well as more traditional paintings. This educational visit proved very successful and was invaluable to the development of the Year 10s Art project based on the theme ‘Close Up’. Thank you to all the GCSE and A level students who attended for their positive contribution on the day.
An enjoyable lunch, in historic surroundings, gave the judges the opportunity to deliberate on the eight finalists’ poster submissions before there was one last chance to maximise points in the intense and quick fire Quiz Round; our geological knowledge pitted against that of all the other teams.
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The Aylesburian 2017/2018
Mrs L Tangi
