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Newall Green High School & Sixth Form 2017/18 No.1 Information for all of our performances, exhibitions, showcases and productions can be found on the EPA Blog. their creative abilities and this can lead to a life-long engagement in arts related activities. Year 8 Drama students were treated to a fantastic tour of HOME Theatre in Manchester city centre. They were greeted by the staff and then taken to see the full set of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ and see the main theatre auditorium. Many students commented in how great it was to see a real stage. Who knows maybe one of them will perform on it one day! interesting seeing where the action happens and the technology ice-cream! HOME Theatre are a multipurpose venue with theatre space, art opportunity to see behind the scenes, students have taken part in two drama workshops at Newall Green High School. These were based on issues such as peer pressure and looked at abstract ways of performing to an audience. Drama club for Year 8 will now take place every Wednesday 3-3.50pm and Miss Evans will be using the work created during the workshops to create a mini performance in March. BACKSTAGE TOUR AT HOME EPA newsletter This is the winning photograph of the Manchester Science Festival's 'Physics Pics' competition by Year 11 student Delta. Delta wanted to show speed and light within physics by using a long exposure to take the photograph captured the image he entered into the competiton. Delta Manchester Central Library for the duration of the festival. ART MEETS SCIENCE
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Newall Green High School & Sixth Form 2017/18 No.1
Information for all of our performances, exhibitions, showcases and productions can be found on the EPA Blog.
their creative abilities and this can lead to a life-long engagement in arts related activities.
Year 8 Drama students were treated to a fantastic tour of HOME Theatre in Manchester city centre.
They were greeted by the staff and then taken to see the full set of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ and see the main theatre auditorium. Many students commented in how great it was to see a real stage. Who knows maybe one of them will perform on it one day!
interesting seeing where the action happens and the technology
ice-cream!
HOME Theatre are a multipurpose venue with theatre space, art
opportunity to see behind the scenes, students have taken part in two drama workshops at Newall Green High School. These were based on issues such as peer pressure and looked at abstract ways of performing to an audience.
Drama club for Year 8 will now take place every Wednesday 3-3.50pm and Miss Evans will be using the work created during the workshops to create a mini performance in March.
BACKSTAGE TOUR AT HOME
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This is the winning photograph of the Manchester Science Festival's 'Physics Pics' competition by Year 11 student Delta. Delta wanted to show speed and light within physics by using a long exposure to take the photograph
captured the image he entered into the competiton. Delta
Manchester Central Library for the duration of the festival.
ART MEETS SCIENCE
WINTER WONDERLAND
CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH with Carla Ellington
Newall Green High School pupils performed to a sold out audience for our annual Christmas showcase Winter Wonderland.
The students gave it their absolute all. Performances from Dance, Music and Drama saw the biggest cast ever perform at our Christmas Showcase. Newall Green High School Pupils love performing and all of extra-curricular clubs are well attended as a result of this every day.
Preparation for this event starts in September every year and all of our performers have been very busy rehearsing and getting ready to wow our audience. A group of Year 7 students and staff held a Christmas Fair for people to browse before the show, the lunch time club spent much of the term hand making Christmas decorations such as Christmas pudding pom poms, and some sweet treat gifts and stocking �llers such as hot chocolate reindeer, the fair was a success and the club look forward to their next project. More photographs from the show can be found in the gallery section of the school website.
For the third consecutive year Newall Green High School proudly welcomed vocalist Carla Ellington.
Carla and her band performed for 120 Year 4 pupils and staff from Newall Green Primary School and also Baguley Hall Primary School.
The performance was in celebration of Black History Month and began with a short introduction on the amazing city we all study and work in, the cultural history of Manches-ter and the cultural Arts opportunities that are here in the North West.
Carla Ellington who is an award winning gospel vocalist performed for our special guests a range of gospel songs. She explained their origins during the time of slavery and the in�uences they have on music today.
The experience had been planned by Carla to be totally interactive, guests were dancing and singing away all afternoon, one of the primary school teachers said:
“A fantastic afternoon, the children loved it “.
A MAGIC BOX
FILM & VIDEO UMBRELLAYear 10 Art and Design students were invited to attend a workshop delivered by Film and Video Umbrella at Quarry Bank Mill. CHANGING PLACES is a touring exhibition presented by FVU. The exhibition featured work from artists using �lm, immersive sound and photography.
Pupils responded to the work identifying change in our communi-ties and the impact on all of our lives. Planning how they could communicate their ideas and responses was a challenging task and pupils began to un-pick how �lm and immersive sound and photography could be used as a medium. Our pupils discovered environmental impacts and the physical transformations of cities, discussing how industrialisation has set us all on a path where change is the only constant.
Julie Pugh, Formal Learning Of�cer at Quarry Bank said: ‘It was fantastic to welcome the Art Students from Newall Green to Quarry Bank. The students were thoughtful, insightful and come up with a variety of responses that could be built upon. I hope this marks the beginning of a relationship between Quarry Bank and Newall Green High School in which we can all bene�t.’
Year 11 Drama students were taken to see a play, 'Mobile', at HOME Theatre, Manchester.
This was not the normal theatre experience one would expect, on a stage, with room for a big audience...this was a powerful and intimate piece of theatre, performed by one actor, in a caravan!
The Paper Birds are a multi award-winning theatre company who create work that is culturally, socially and politically observational and conversationally urgent, much of their work is taken from words that the general public have said and literally put into a performance.
In this case, the performance was based on the class system and recordings of various people looking back at their life and what they have achieved. Not only was this an intimate show (audiences of no more than 8), it was full of technical wizardry supplied by The Media Workshop Ltd. From a talking kettle to a simulated trip to the moon, this was a euphoric and spine-tingling experience. Getting lost among the stories, the voices and the objects was a source of great joy!
The Year 11s also took part in a workshop with the director of the play and got to experience performing on the main stage at HOME Theatre. The experience of working with a professional director is fantastic for them as they embark on their �nal performance piece.
The Paper Birds neatly turned the caravan into a magic box where every cupboard and drawer sprung a surprise and what a fantastic trip it was for the Year 11s too!
MUSIC TOURS THE COMMUNITYThe Soul Band and Choir completed their annual Christmas Tour calling at local primary schools and Tesco to bring some Christmas cheer to pupils and shoppers. They got a standing ovation at Crossacres primary and raised money for Parkinson’s UK at Tesco. They performed ‘Rocking Around the Christmas Tree’, ‘Last Christmas’ as well as carols and pop songs which were appreciated by all. After whizzing around Manchester on the tour they went straight to performing as part of the Winter Wonderland performance evening – non-stop performances for our talented musicians who were exhausted by the end of it all! Well done to all involved, they made the Newall Green Music Department very proud.
The Art Department at NGHS have successfully bid for lottery funding. In the coming year students studying Art and Design, and Photography will be working towards a very special event which will take place in November this year. Watch this space for further information. There is also a big opportunity for the local community to contribute to our project.
To keep up to date with what the Expressive and Performing Arts faculty are doing, check out the EPA blog: www.epanewallgreenhigh.blogspot.com
You can also follow the Art and Design department on twitter: @NGHS_ART
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ART & DESIGN COMMITTEE
The Art and Design Committee for Year 7 meet regularly to discuss their ideas. Their current focus is creating a competition for all students in Year 7 and Year 8. The committee are totally in charge of leading the project, encouraging all pupils to get involved, planning and deciding a criteria and publicising the competition around school. Some of the committee members have been attending Art and Design lessons at NGHS since Year 5 and 6, and were the original members of the High Achieving Art and Design Saturday artist led sessions.
