A group of Photography and Textile students, across year 11-13, travelled to London to visit the V&A Museum earlier this week to see the magnificent Tim Walker Wonderful Things show. The trip was a great opportunity for the students to feel inspired and to gather useful primary research for their projects, through viewing the work of a contemporary practicing fashion-photographer and the chance to take … Continue reading Tim Walker: Wonderful Things
A group of our year 10 Art & Design students set off to the Cathedral with Carmel and Gretel to source primary research for their recently assigned Cathedral project. Read More Continue reading Year 10 Cathedral Visit
This year, Arts Week took our youngest students on a four-day residential to Cornwall. Our theme this year was ‘Landscape and The Environment’ and activities and workshops centred on this theme. There were trips to the Tate St Ives and the Eden Project as well as practical artist-led workshops at the Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Museum and Leach Pottery – and of course, surfing!! You can … Continue reading Lower School Arts Week 2019
On November 14th The RIC GCSE Photography students went on a trip to London to visit the Cecil Beaton exhibition and 1930s fashion exhibit at the Fashion and Textiles Museum in London as part of their coursework project. They were also encouraged to take photographs of the urban environment for their Art & Design project. First we visited Rochester Castle for a quick run through … Continue reading GCSE Photography London Trip
Very bright and early on Wednesday 21 of June, we boarded the Eurostar for Paris, with a full itinerary of sightseeing and gallery visits planned as part of the 2017 Lower School Arts Week. After checking into our hotel, we enjoyed the obligatory ham and cheese baguette for lunch and some well executed selfies in front of the Eiffel tower before making our way to the … Continue reading Lower School Trip to Paris
This November A level students will get the opportunity to visit the UCAS Design Your Future university fair which is held annually at Olympia, London. Historically, our students have found this an incredibly useful and informative event giving them unique opportunity to talk to representatives from universities and colleges and other organisations about the study prospects available to them within the creative arts and associated … Continue reading UCAS Design Your Future Fair
The A level Graphics group went to The London Transport Museum and The Design Museum for reserach into their current projects. As well as displaying life size models of trains and buses and an underground train simulator (which the students delighted in) – the LTM is currently showing the Poster Art 150 exhibition displaying some of London Underground’s greatest and most famous designs and students were given … Continue reading A LEVEL GRAPHICS TRIP 02/10/13
During Activitiy Week the Lower Scool made a trip to the Turner Contemporary Gallery in Margate and took part in a Ceramics workshop. Continue reading TURNER CONTEMPORARY GALLERY, MARGATE
A level Graphics students will be going on a trip to London on Wednesday 2 October to see Poster Art 150 – London Underground’s Greatest Designs at the London Transport Museum and Extraordinary Stories About Ordinary Things exhibition at the DesignMuseum. Both exhibitions will provide a great amount of research for all forthcoming projects. Continue reading BIG DAY OUT
On Friday 6 December 2013 all Year 11s studying GCSE Art and Design subjects will be going on a trip to London for research into their final coursework project entitled Urban Environment. We will also be visiting the London Transport Museum where all students will have the opportunity to draw and photograph many versions of London Transport up close. Currently showing the at the LTM … Continue reading GCSE ART TRIP TO LONDON
