01.12.2021 VIDEO: Mary Poppins Set Design Team Need Your Help Penrice Academy’s Mary Poppins will be performing on the 22nd,23rd, and 24th of March. With assistance from Ms Morse, the set design team have been working on adapting the script in a real performance. The Media Team is going to be interviewing the Behind-the-Scenes teams throughout the year to show their involvement in the production,… Read more »
20.05.2021 Superb work in Year 9 Art Project Year 9 Art & Design students have been very busy this week designing and constructing their own clay sculpture, for their ‘Surface’ project. Their work was inspired by the artists Peter Randall-Page, Luciana Rondolini, Kate Malone and Yayoi Kusama, as well as incorporating ideas, skills and techniques they have learnt this year. Their clay sculptures… Read more »
05.11.2018 Penrice Remembers: ‘6190’ Last term for Penrice Plus, Mr Carter’s Art group wanted to create their own response to the centenary of the end of the First World War. Mr Carter explains: “Looking at larger scale projects such as ‘The Shrouds of the Somme’ and ‘Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red’ at the Tower of London, we aimed to… Read more »
19.10.2018 Penrice Academy’s Big Draw 2018 “Do your best and never stop.” (Stephen Wiltshire) This year for the Big Draw, students at Penrice Academy drew a city together. The Big Draw is a global community festival, which celebrates the universal language of drawing. Each year the Art Department has been part of the Big Draw, but usually on small scale and… Read more »
08.10.2018 Christmas Card Competition 2018 It’s that time of year again – your chance to design Penrice Academy’s official Christmas card. The Task: To design Penrice Academy’s official Christmas Card for Christmas 2018 The Theme: ‘What Christmas means to me.’ The Design: To be submitted A4 or A5 or digitally as a JPEG Can be full colour or black and white Can… Read more »
19.01.2018 Primary Art Workshop 2018 On Wednesday 17th January, Year 4s and 5s from Sandyhill and Poldhu primaries spent the day in the Art Department at Penrice creating mixed media imaginary worlds inspired by artists Joseph Cornell and Kristjana S Williams – and the film Avatar. Miss Morse explained: “We worked in one of our iMac suites to find and… Read more »
07.12.2017 Penrice Christmas Decorations Christmas season in upon us and our amazing team of new designers in an after school club have made our school a festive place to be by adding a pinch of Christmas magic to it. They made reindeer heads out of Penrice’s recycled cardboard and it only took 2 hours to make all of them!… Read more »