The Owl 2020

The Owl 2020
Miscellany
And cling to the image, my dad’s toolbox
glue.
Memory is wet ink, underdeveloped,
As I am only two, my brain as soft as the
Bark I sink my softly swollen palms into.
Art in School
Memory is wet ink, a permanent
annoyance,
Brown-green stains on denim knees, arts
and crafts
Gone wrong; no one ever told me what to
do.
Memory is wet ink, wet branches after rain,
Sap-slicked like baby’s hair post-bath, I
laugh: oh, tree,
I don’t remember being born and neither do
you.
Zara Meadows (LVI)
Rachel Rosbotham (V)
Ellie Burn (LVI)
Ella Cairns (V)
Ellie Walsh (V)
Ella Cairns Form V
Due to Covid-19 CCEA did not have the
opportunity to identify our full mark/nearly
full mark candidates at GCSE, AS and A2,
however Mr Roy Donaldson from John
Bush Systems presented three of our top
rank Art & Design students with a Student
Art Pack award.
Caitlyn Sahin MVI.
Vivienne Johnston MVI.
Nia McVicker MVI.
All Art & Design GCSE, AS and A2 Level
pupils attended the 2020 True Colours
Exhibition at the Ulster Museum.
The MVI and LVI Art & Design pupils
attended the 2020 Royal Ulster Academy
Annual Exhibition at the Ulster Museum.
The Department is used every week for
Duke of Edinburgh Art & Design projects
as well as CCEA GCSE, AS and A Level
units of work.
The Friends of the Academy very kindly
donated a sum of money to invest in a new
camera for the department.
Khaled Berakdar teaches Arabic Culture,
oral, written and listening lessons to all of
the Form 1 and Form 3 and enrichment
programmes to Senior pupils. He supports
the Art Teachers in embedding the lessons
with Art and Design masterclasses and
workshops. Thursday lunch hour each week
the Art Department ran an Arabic Culture
Club run by our Arabic Tutor Khaled
Berakdar. Learning the Arabic alphabet and
numeracy and Arabic conversation.
QFI during lockdown gave our Form 1 and
3 year groups the opportunity to take part in
their International Poster Competition. The
following pupils were shortlisted for this
prestigious International award, Erin Gray
Form 1 and Aoife Akmad Form 3 are two
of the six finalists. The six went to a vote
for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places and Aoife
Akmad won third placing in the contest.
She will receive a Prize in an Amazon e-gift
card. The US QFI team were overwhelmed
by the ‘Big’ response from our BRA
pupils.
The Art Department continues with the
highly successful Art Clubs. Art and
Design Club on Monday after-school and
Mini Art Club every lunchtime run by Art
Technician Laura Atkins. After-school club
members designed their own fantasy world,
created a world map and their own
characters. They had the opportunity to
experiment with traditional ink dipping
pens, paper staining techniques and
embellishing processes. Students took part
in National Art competitions, art challenges
and they made Artist Trading Cards. Its
great success encouraged pupils to attend a
Mini Art Club that took place each
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