This term year 9 have been working on a cross curricular project involving Design and History. For Design, they have created a puppet based on a key historical figure from the reign of Henry VIII. In History the students have been developing their knowledge of the Tudor period, specifically looking into Henry VIII's reign and the problems he faced. Drawing on their research they have written a dialogue from the perspective of their puppet character which they will perform at the exhibition.

Real Talk is the new 21st century magazine by 21st century students. This magazine was created to facilitate a space for students to showcase their creativity, acquire the unique skills of design and writing for a magazine and most importantly, to voice issues that matter to them. This magazine seeks to establish a student movement that reflects on the world through the eyes of young people with many more issues to come!

Students were immersed in the context surrounding The Beatles and their movement, including the emergence of Beatlemania. They learnt and studied a number of Beatles songs, exploring the musical and stylistic links with the music of their contemporaries.

Year 7 students have been learning how to structure an effective pop song and write well-crafted lyrics with form, rhythm and flow.

Each group was given a specific event during the Cold War to research, develop an immersive production and create a Cold War spy style puzzle. The groups looked at the 'Three Conferences', 'The Czechoslovakian Crisis' 'The Berlin Crisis' and the 'Cuban Missile Crisis'.

Applying the abstract properties of shape to characters in a story.

Students used an immigration story from the news and created a piece of artwork in the form of Kandinsky geometric art. They had to research numbers which could be represented in their picture from the immigration story and apply it to their picture.

Students have spent the term learning about different non-fiction texts related to food and eating. This has included food and restaurant reviews, nutritional information, the persuasive language of a business pitch, and the language of promotional materials.

In this project, students were commissioned to design a birdhouse for either a house sparrow, common starling or swift.

Over the year, students were immersed in what is human rights and what makes a meaningful campaign.

Students used inspiration from Bertolt Brecht to theatrically communicate a moment in the Cold War.

In this project, students were tasked with creating a recipe book to represent our local area, E15.

Students have been working to create a professional supporting exhibition for the brand new Branagh Theatre Live Romeo and Juliet in collaboration with Stratford Picturehouse as part of the Shakespeare 400 celebrations.

This Science-Music project explores how sound can be visualised, giving students the opportunity to link the creative arts to the science behind seeing and hearing.

Students were asked to work as a props designer for an absurdist theatre production about the Cold War.

The Real World Learning projects gave students in Year 10 the opportunity to spend half a day a week, over a term and a half, with an employer solving a real-life problem.

How to create a piece of pavement art that, from one direction, appears to “pop up” and form a three-dimensional image.

This project was designed to develop new vocabulary and language analysis skills. Students initially studied Romeo and Juliet at a comprehension level.