EPA Newsletter

Newall Green High School

EPA

2018/19 No.1

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Information for all of our performances, exhibitions, showcases and productions can be found on the EPA Blog. their creative abilities and this can lead to a life-long engagement in arts related activities.

BEHIND THE SCENES AT MANCHESTER MUSEUM

Year 10 Photography students went behind the scenes at Manchester Museum on a specially organised visit to the Entomology department. Phil, who manages the department and has worked there for 44 years, introduced rare specimens of butterflies and moths, some which are over 100 years old and species which are now extinct! Students photographed the specimens with a specialist macro lens and the results will be included in the ongoing Lottery funded project because there is a unique link with WW1. During war time, injured and traumatised soldiers took part in crafts as part of their rehabilitation, the most popular craft was embroidering butterflies.

Student Jasleen said, “It was really fun to go into the store where nobody gets to go and the butterflies were amazing!”

IT’S BEHIND YOU! On Friday 16th November, Year 5 Newall Green Primary School students came to see the Year 11 Drama external performance exam. This was an action packed, colourful and entertaining pantomime called ‘Happily Ever After’. With Snow White, Cinderella, Prince Charming and a fairy-tale ending with a twist, they were bound to be entertained. It was great to see so many happy faces.

HOMECOMING PERFORMANCE FOR DANCE ALUMNI ISAAC

Former Dance student Isaac Bowry has performed as part of the ensemble in Mathew Bourne’s Swan Lake at the Lowry this November. Isaac studied this piece with us as part of GCSE Dance course so it is a real treat for us to see him have the opportunity to perform this piece as a professional dancer, in his home town. During his performance week, he also took over the Lowry’s social media showing everyone a day in the life of professional dancer on tour. We look forward to seeing Isaac progress in his Dance career and hope to see him perform again back in Manchester.

EPA WORKSHOPS FOR YEAR 5 Mrs Mills, Head of Expressive and Performing Arts, and Music Teacher Mr Challinor, have been delivering workshops to Year 5 students across Wythenshawe since September.

Students from Baguley Hall Primary School and Newall Green Primary School have been able to develop their Art and Design and Music skills with our staff and have really improved in just a few weeks! Mrs Mills’ classes have been creating design sheets based on Greek inspired architecture and focussing on painting, drawing and mark making skills by looking at artists work and experimenting with different techniques. Mrs Mills said, “Every single week the Year 5 students have blown me away with their engagement and willingness to be challenged.” In the upcoming term, the EPA staff will be taking delivering skills based workshops to more primary schools in the area.

CHAMELEON DANCE CLASS

Year 10 GCSE Dancers were put through their paces with a contemporary Dance technique class & repertoire workshop by Amber from Chameleon Dance company focusing on the work ‘Of Man and Beast’.

Dancers will use this experience to aid them in creating their GCSE Dance performance work!

Art and Design and Photography students were able to meet former student Emma Haslam who returned to NGHS this term to talk to students about her journey from school to university.

Emma went to Xaverian Collage and attained three grade A’s at A level including Art & Design, she is currently studying for her Foundation diploma at Xaverian and has been awarded a place at Leeds University to study Fine Art next year. Emma gave some insightful college/career advice to our current Year 9, 10 and 11 Art and Photography students and brought her portfolio and a range of work that she has produced since school, it was really helpful for the students to see how her work has developed and what opportunities are available to them in further education.

INSPIRING OUR STUDENTS

DEVISING WITH YEAR 11 DRAMA

Year 11s were lucky to work with Babel Theatre company through a partnership with the amazing HOME Theatre. The workshops will run over the rest of this half term. They have been introduced to new ideas and ways of creating drama from scratch – devising.

Students really raised the bar by getting really involved in this process and we are looking forward to seeing the final performance at the end. This work will also support the students in completing their Unit 01 work for the V Certs course. Go Year 11 and keep up the focus!

NGHS POPPY WALK

EVERYONE REMEMBERED

The Art and Design and Photography department successfully big for funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund to create the Wythenshawe Poppy Walk up the lead up to Armistice Day. Students were able to go on a trip to Media City to photograph the poppy wave, grew poppies in our roof garden and created a number of displays using photography, mixed media, and textiles.

Local primary school students created photo montages at open evening, and the winning entry won a prize of a PS4 from Learning Unlimited, and had their work included in the final exhibition. 100 poppies were displayed around the school by the Art Committee and the project continues throughout the term. You can keep up to date with the latest on this project by following the art department on twitter @NGHS_ART.

EPA FACULTY EVENTS 2018 -2019 Barbican Box is a project in collaboration with The

As always the Expressive and Performing Arts faculty have a jam packed year ahead. So far we have many workshops, visits and events booked in and more to come: •Forum Library Art Exhibition (until January 2019) •Music Christmas Tour •Manchester International Festival 2019 •Barbican Box Theatre project with the Year 8 Drama •The Visual Arts Festival 2019 •The Year 8 Arts committee – delivering workshops to the Year 7 students •MMU degree show visits - Art and Design/ Photography •Quarry Bank Mill National Trust Photography trips •Ed Hall banner artist collaboration HOME Theatre.

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To keep up to date with what the Expressive and Performing Arts faculty are doing, check out the EPA blog: www.epanewallgreenhigh.blogspot.com You can also follow the Art and Design department on twitter: @NGHS_ART

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