25 Oct 2024
Our year ten Art students recently visited St. Ives and the Eden Project as a basis for their first coursework project themed around Nature.
On day one we spent a few hours looking around the biodomes taking photographs and sketching plants. Our coach then dropped us off in St Ives to the Cohort Hostel in the middle of town. We were treated to a talk by a St Ives Tour guide, who was able to explain the history of the town as a place enjoyed by so many artists over the years. This was an excellent start for our pupils to get to know some of the key pieces of work that would be seeing the next day.
Day two: we split into two working groups and both visited the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden as well the Tate Gallery.
Pupils had some time briefly to explore and enjoy St Ives at lunchtime before heading home again.
It was a jam-packed visit, which enabled our students to see work in real life and to gather lots of imagery as resources for their current project.
My thanks go, as always, to the many staff that hep to organise these events in admin as well as a special thank you to Mr Carroll and Mr Ong for giving up their time and coming with us all to St Ives.
This is our annual residential Art trip that I shall be running next year for our current year nine art students.