The journalism group had the opportunity to interview members of the year 13 Student Leadership Team this week. Technology has enabled us to keep the year groups apart but still conduct some great interviews. Please have a watch and listen to what the sixth form leadership are planning for the year ahead.
Welcome back to School! The journalism club have been putting together some interviews with students and staff from the school community about life during and after lock down. Please have a watch
This week Nottingham High School will be doing a wide range of fund raising activities to help support the amazing work of Nottingham Children’s hospital. We will be covering some of the events in the coming weeks. Here is a little video to help students ‘Go the Distance’. On Friday students will be taking place in a wide range of different sporting activities in the aim to raise as much money as possible!
There has been quite a bit of congestion in Nottingham over the last few weeks. How has it impacted students?
Art workshop
Earlier this term, the year 10 art students were able to have a workshop with Chris Baxter, a willow artist whose aim along with the Basket makers Association is to promote the knowledge of basketry, chair seating and allied crafts. Chris began willow working in 2011 and made a professional career out of the wonderful art. She sells hand woven baskets and teaches classes involving the natural material, which is common in Nottingham. We were lucky enough to have a great day, where we learnt certain techniques in order to make what we wanted. Some of the pupils made stunning pieces and everyone managed to make something, whether it was a dragonfly or a fish.
Hannah created a spider using the random weave technique for the head and body and then inserting willow branches to create legs. She then creatively cut some thick willow branches and into short ones to then create a set of eyes.
Another student called Kashvi created a deer head using that same random weave technique for the head, however her branches were more carefully placed to create somewhat of an image of a face. Ears were made using the figure if eight weave technique, which is also used to create fish. The ears and antlers were added therefore completing the deer head.
http://www.chrisbaxtersbaskets.co.uk/
Over the course of the year we intend to shine light on the various talents of students at Nottingham High School. We have started with Nathan in year 7 who plays the organ.
Each week we plan to record a mini news report on something funny in the news. Here is the first attempt. Could you let us know if we could include anything from the news?
Sport round up!
Opera day with year 9
Year 9 Cavalleria Rusticana workshop
On the 21st of January, year 9 music students had a workshop based around the opera ‘Cavalleria Rusticana’ We made our own pieces of music whilst also combining elements of opera and learning about opera as well. Firstly, we were put into groups and a professional opera singer came to help us write our lyrics. Then we put together a performance making each group flow into each other by having a short interval in-between each group. At the end of the day, all of the year 9 music students performed their pieces of music to the year 7’s (who were currently having a music lesson at the time) and then we had an opera performance from 2 professional opera singers.
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