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DRAMATIC EXPERIENCES October, the Year 10 GCSE Drama


n Friday 19th


students were fortunate to spend a day with Daniel Cane, a professional actor, developing


their devising skills in preparation for their GCSE later this year.


They spent the morning developing their technical skill set, working on how to warm up their bodies and voices in preparation for some intense work - although some students did struggle with tongue bootcamp! They spent the next few hours learning about how to create soundscapes in order to engage their audience, as well as recapping specific techniques so that they were prepared to create their own devised pieces.


For the last hour students demonstrated their ability to combine some of the new skills they’d learnt and considered how to create a performance based on a stimuli provided. Students left the workshop feeling like they knew ‘many different techniques that can be used to entertain and engage an audience’.


HAIRSPRAY S 7th


tudents have been working incredibly hard on a Wednesday afternoon and after school in preparation for next year’s musical on the 6th of February. Gonul Ali is taking the Hairspray cast by


and


storm, with her rendition of ‘Good morning Baltimore’ setting a very high standard for the show right from the start. All cast members have been busy developing their characters, practising songs and rehearsing dances! The production team are very proud of the way they are currently working, and it is shaping up to be a very professional production.


A AGFS Elite Choir


GFS Elite choir is back this term, led by Nathan Devonte from Ark.


Students have been working on a two part a cappella version of Lovely Day by Bill Withers. The choir now rehearses on a Tuesday from 4-5pm in the main hall and is made up of select students from Year 8 upwards. Students are working on a range of repertoire to be performed at the AGFS Winter Concert 2018 on Wednesday 12th


December.


TRINITY BUOY WHARF DRAWING PRIZE 2018


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ear 11 and 10 GCSE student artists visited this year’s ‘Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize’, a national annual art competition which supports and celebrates


contemporary drawing within the UK. This year the exhibition previously called the ‘Jerwood Drawing Prize’ took place at Trinity Buoy Wharf within the docklands.


Students engaged in viewing the exhibition and finding artists’ work which could then be used back in school to help develop their own projects. Year 10 were focusing on a ‘Diverse Drawing’ project while Year 11 focussed on their final coursework project on the theme of ‘I, Me, Mine’ prior to starting their final external exam projects in January 2019.


Students became art critics as they blind-judged the artwork and explained to whom they would award the first prize of £8,000. Many awarded it to the actual prize winner, artist Caroline Burraway who produced photorealist charcoal portraits of refugees she met in Calais, France.


Students also created group-panoramic landscapes of the local area, working in small groups to create collaborative final pieces and experienced working in location as opposed to the art studio. For the third year running, AGFS student artists once again demonstrated their ability to be informed, engaged and constructive critics when faced with a current contemporary art exhibition.


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