Author: Natalie McGillivary

In February, the Business Department had an exciting opportunity for its business students. They were invited to attend a lecture on Dark Leadership, the negative aspects of leaders, discussing when leaders ‘go bad’.

Fran Adam is a University lecturer and agreed to come in and discuss this really interesting topic with our students

This article was discussed during the lecture.

 

On Tuesday 29th November, the Visual Arts & Technology faculty welcomed Jo Adams into school to host a talk and a live hair and make-up demonstration to a group of students. The talk was open to students in all year groups that may be interested in a career in art and design or simply just curious about what a career in hair, make-up and set design entails. Jo has worked on a huge number of exciting productions ranging from hair and make-up design for a Nikki Minaj music video to the most recent James Bond film. It was fascinating to hear about her experiences on set and the amazing locations her career has taken her so far. Jo spoke a lot about how valuable art and design skills are and how transferable these can be in any chosen career path, which students found very inspirational. The Visual Arts & Technology faculty run the visiting artists programme in which they aim to have at least one visiting creative in school once a term to host either a talk or creative workshop. These experiences allow students to discover new techniques as well as inform them on possible future career paths.

On Friday 18th November, Year 11, 12 and 13 Textiles & Fashion students visited the ‘Knitting and stitching’ show in Harrogate.

The show brings together hundreds of textile workshops, demonstrations, textile art exhibitions and stalls from over 200 of the leading specialist craft suppliers. This year’s show was bursting at the seams with creativity and innovation! Students spent their time at the show gathering primary research, interviewing the exhibiting artists and designers, along with shopping for materials and equipment to support their current Textiles & Fashion projects.

“Students and staff had a fantastic day exploring all that the Knitting and stitching show had to offer this year”, said Miss Simms. “There were so many exciting new techniques and processes explored in the graduate work being exhibited, which will be beneficial to all the students. We can’t wait to see the inspiration come through in their current projects!”

 

We were delighted to welcome PWC in November 2022, who spoke with our Year 12 and Year 13 Business, Maths and Economics students. This gave students invaluable insight into the opportunities available to them.

 

Dan Cordwell is the founder and director of Visions Design Ltd – a Lymm-based graphic design company. He gave a talk to all interested year groups on what it’s like to work in graphic design. He also provided a great insight into the industry for anyone interested in a career in graphic design.

On Monday 12th September local photographer Andrew Collier visited us to run an after-school photography workshop.

The workshop was focused on Architecture photography, specifically capturing interesting viewpoints and lines within architecture and the details within it. Students that attended ranged from Years 8–11 and all students came away with some fantastic images.

Students in Year 10 and 11 that study GCSE Photography or Art will be able to put the skills and techniques learned in this workshop into practice within their current coursework projects.

All students thoroughly enjoyed the workshop, exploring many different areas of the school to find interesting architectural points
to photograph.