Turnford School

The Arts Newsletter Issue 3 2013

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Half Term Faculty of the Arts Award Sheraine Kell from Year 13 for her outstanding leadership skills and commitment to the Dance Department.

Jessica Jarvis for her fantastic acting ability in drama and excellent participation in the

Year 9 Road Safety Awareness workshop.

The Faculty of Arts Student Group is Announced

Before Christmas all students were invited to apply for a position on the Turnford School Arts Student

Group. The following students were successful with their application and now represent the whole faculty

across all age groups.

Alex Mathews

Sophie Persaud

Ellie-Mai

Sophie Cole

Joshua Counihan

Emily Jones

Lauren West

Jessica Frith

Francesca Riley

Demi Achord

Mason Carpenter

Morgan Powell

Ellie Taylor

Please speak to a member of the group if you have any ideas or questions about the Faculty that you wish to be

discussed in our half termly meetings.

We The Arts!

Library Enrichment Activities Success

Each week with Mrs Saunders students have been creating different pieces of work during Enrichment club

in the library. One week they all brought books to life using modelling clay to produce figures and objects

from their favourite books. Miss Butcher was asked to judge these without knowing which students were

involved.

1st place - “CandyFloss”

Selin Tanak, Victoria Wilson & Melissa Sanderson

2nd

place - “Diary of a Wimpy Kid”

Sinead Wines & Madison Bridge

3rd

place - “The Jungle Book”

Jordan Moss

Art Gifted and Talented Drawing

Workshop DAY

On Friday 1

st February, a selection of Year 10 and 11 students

had the opportunity to work on a range of drawing techniques

in a specialist drawing work shop aimed at challenging the

Gifted and Talented students. The

Students drew from observation in a

variety of media on a large scale.

Year 9 G&T Drama Students

Educate Year 7 on Road Safety

On Tuesday 5th

March, Konflux Theatre in Education Company came to Turnford School to work

with a selected number of Gifted and Talented drama students in Year 9. With the direction of a member of

the Konflux Company, the students devised a whole group performance based on road safety, highlighting

the potential hazards and dangers that are caused by a simple lack of attention in peoples everyday lives.

This was then performed to the Year 7‟s in the hall who thoroughly enjoyed it giving lots of positive

feedback!

Royal Albert Hall Dance Group Prepare for Performance

Students lead by Mrs Puchalski, are working hard to put

the choreography together for their performance at The

Royal Albert Hall on 11th

May. The group are preparing

themselves by rehearing in the school hall as there are

so many students involved they will not all fit into the

Dance studio!

Year 8 Gifted and Talented Drum Morning

This was held on Wednesday 5th

December. Fourteen students were

involved in a 2 hour drum kit workshop run by our drum teacher

supported by Tom Thurlow, a sixth form music student . The session

began with working on a group performance comprising a wide variety

of rhythm patterns performed on an assortment of percussion

instruments. The focus then moved to the drum kit. There were 3 drum

kits set up in Music 2. Students were taught to play the basic patterns

of drumming, playing around the drum kit. Some of the performances

were impressive, especially Max Proctor who entertained the whole

group in a drumming play off with Tom. Here‟s looking forward to the

next session!

Help for Hero’s Sixth form

Concert

Yet another performance by the talented musicians of

Turnford was watched by students from Year 7 to

Year 13 during lunchtime on

Emily Jarvis and Claire Adams from Year 12 said “Turnford

has lots of talented and musically gifted students and we get the

opportunity to watch them and raise so much money for charity! A Level group,

Southbound and Sticks, Picks and a Microphone played a variety of music and entertained

the crowd”.

Year 7 get Cultural with Aboriginal Art! Last term the whole of Year 7 took part in the project Aboriginal Art. They

started this project by doing assessment drawings of decorative objects

including beaded necklaces and wicker hats. From there we moved on to

Aboriginal animals and dreamtime stories where each student created their

own story about their own animal such as Larry the Lizard and Kevin the

kangaroo. For our final pieces each student worked on a section of an animal

not knowing who had what animal or which piece. Once each piece was

finished they all came together to create the gigantic final pieces. Everybody

worked really hard and there was some fantastic work achieved! Well done

Year 7!

Art Club Successes

This term our art club has been more successful than ever! We used

recycling as our first theme to create a large scale collage of an owl

using bottle tops, string and paper including newspaper, books, maps

and music sheets. Each of our art clubbers did their own drawing of a

decorative animal including leopards, giraffes, owls and wolves. Megan

James was picked as the winner and it was her drawing that formed the

basis for the final piece. Once blown up we spent over 5 hours

layering glue and bottle tops to create this final piece. Now just watch

out for it to pop up somewhere

in school!

Next we had an Easter

egg competition where

each person made their egg

from scratch!. Each of the eggs had a

unique design which was pre planned on to an egg design

sheet. The designs were so good we couldn‟t pick one winner

we had to pick two! These winners were Lucy Tate from year

7 and Chloe Downing year 8. These two designs were so

different but each fantastic. All Easter egg makers did a

fantastic job and we had lots of fun making plenty of mess with

paper mache and paint.

Well done art clubbers for another fantastic term!!!! Miss Hatton

Drama Club Summer Term

House Competition!

After half-term, drama club will be running for

6 weeks working on various scripts. Groups will

need to be organised within Houses as

performances will be judged by a panel at the

end of the term!

Miss Hatton’s

Wall of Success The following Year 7 students have had their art

work displayed on Miss Hatton‟s „Wall of

Success‟ to show off their outstanding drawings

produced in lesson. Well done to Charlie

Craber, Karolina Szpigiel, Lucy Tate, Ebony

DeLuca, Ziynet Sevsal, Tore DeLuca, Alison

Lillie and Mia Dipaola.

Turnford Dancers represent A10 Active

The following students performed at the opening ceremony for the

Herts School Games. Again a fantastic performance and the

organisers and the production company commented on how

professional the students were and that the dance was brilliant.

Over 500 young people from all over Hertfordshire watched and

enjoyed their performance. Well done to Ellie Tanfield who

choreographed the whole of the dance.

As well as representing Turnford School they represented

A10 Active and we were both very proud of the students.

Many thanks

Jayne and Marcia

Outstanding Performances at the

Spring Concert!

The 12

th March saw another of our key stage 4 and 5

showcase evenings where musicians perform items of

coursework prepared for assessment purposes. This

year we had one or two extra items!

An outstanding performance was given by all students

with an abundance of solo and ensemble items on offer.

The concert ended with the Finale performed by a

combined year 10 and 11 ensemble which incorporated

elements of Samba with Stomp!

A most impressive evening of musical entertainment supported by 6th

form Art and Business students who created the posters, bunting and

refreshments for the evening.

The concert raised £251 for our charity fund!

This year we have decided to raise money to help the children‟s unit at Lister Hospital. They are in

desperate need of equipment for young people who have to stay in hospital, especially teenagers.

Two Weeks of Lunchtime

Entertainment by Year 11 Drama Students

In February, the Year 11 drama students performed a variety of shows to

different KS3 students for a whole two weeks! Audiences were packed out

every lunchtime and showed a huge amount of support to the Year 11

students, and were thoroughly entertained with their sandwiches! Shows

included Reverse, Going up, A day in the Life of Oscar Reynolds, Smoky

Years and Into the Fire.

Emily Chapman Tom Ford

Ellie Tanfield Emily Harry

Taylor Fletcher Charis Walker

Sophie Rennick Ellie Finch

Kayleigh Mercer Lee-Ann Clark

Ben Wilson Shannon Wright

Year 9 Gifted and Talented

Workshops

On March 1st a group of year 9 students participated in 2

music workshops, one involved guitar playing and the other

working with all kinds of scrap collected from the

caretakers. Students learnt how to play basic chords and

patterns on the guitar in an ensemble led by our guitar

teacher Dave McDonell and performed the finished product to their peers.

All performances were very impressive.

As for the scrap heap challenge, students were involved in a Stomp – like workshop creating performances

using old pots and pans, even a set of step ladders!

A most enjoyable and fruitful morning.

Turnford’s Got Talent!

On Friday 15th

March we held our yearly 6th

Form

Event - Turnford’s Got Talent.

It was a great event and everyone in the 6th

Form would

like to thank all students and staff that came along to

support the acts. They were all amazing and did our

school proud! Turnford definitely has Talent!

In total we managed to raise £350 for charity!!

Congratulations to the following winners!

1st Place: John Pearce

2nd

Place: Sophie Cole and Morgan Robertson

3rd

Place: Austin Sulivan

Watch this Space!

Recent and Upcoming Events for the Summer

Dance Show 26th

April

Year 11 Performing Arts final performances - 7th

May

Year 11 Drama final performances - 14th

May

Year 12 Performance exam evening - 22nd

and 23rd

May

Year 7 G&T Day 19th

June

Week beginning 1st July Arts Week!

Summer Arts Festival 3rd

July

Practiceathon – date to be confirmed

We The Arts!