The College Magazine Winter 2020

Make it Real
A Change Project: Diversity through Arts
By Joseph Stewart
This term the art, music and drama
departments collaborated on providing learning
experiences aiming to develop our Key Stage 3
students’ understanding of Racial History and
Critical Understanding. This meaningful project
will continue until December, but here’s a glimpse
of their progress.
Year 7 have been exploring cultural identity
through story telling. They have created visual
biographies of themselves, their grand-parents
and teenagers from other countries to explore
similarities and differences. This project will
culminate in students becoming “cookie activists”
and making edible portraits inspired by artist
Jasmine Cho. Jasmine makes cookie portraits
of unsung Asian-American heroes and will be
doing an online presentation to Year 7s.
As part of their focus on the theme of freedom,
Year 8 are studying the works of Afro-American
quilters. These intricate textile designs were made
from fabric scraps and embedded important visual
messages.
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