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Rooks Heath College of Business and Enterprise is a mixed school of pupils from 12 to 18. We have a strong multi-cultural intake.
The Art department has three teachers, Penny, Isabella and Chelito. Chelito is from Ecuador and can speak Spanish. She teaches Ceramics which is quite a rare subject in London schools. We also have Kossi, a teacher of Photography, who works within the department. Kossi is from Togo and also teaches French.
Below is some of the work by our A (Advanced) level students who have just finished their Art course. All of them are 18 and transferring to university this October.

A STUDENT VIEW OF THE SCHOOL

Our school name is Rooks Heath College for business and enterprise. The head teacher of our school is Dr. Reavely. Rooks Heath is located in north London, South Harrow. There are six year groups in our school, including a sixth form. The year groups are separated by colours and each class has its own individual colour. There are usually more than a hundred of us in each year group. There is also a head of year for each year group. The head of year eight is Ms Waters, for year nine it’s Ms Pern, year ten’s head of year is Ms Grover and for year eleven it’s Mr Todd. In addition to these teachers is Ms Lane, head of sixth form.

We have three terms in a year. That means we have six holidays a year, for each half term, we have a holiday of a week and for each end of term, we have two weeks of holiday! The summer holidays are for a month and a half! It’s very good, we can enjoy our holidays a lot because we don’t get a lot of homework during the holidays!

Our school also has six blocks which are named by letters; these letters are A, B, C, D, E, and J. The biggest block is A block and the main lessons that are carried out there are English, Language Studies and Science. In B block the mains lessons are Geography and R.S, in C block it’s mostly Art and in D block, it’s mostly D.T. In J block, the main lesson is Music. Our new refurbished canteen is called the ‘Rookery’ and it’s in J block, the newest addition to our school.

We have five lessons a day, the first lesson start at nine o’clock and the last lesson finishes at three o’clock however the registration is at ten to nine which means we have to arrive at school earlier. Each lesson lasts an hour. We have two breaks, one for lunch and one just before third period, lunch usually lasts for forty-five minutes and the break is just fifteen minutes. We also have an assembly once every week. Our lessons consist of Maths, English, Science, Drama, German, Latin, French, Physical Education, Design Technology, Music, Geography, History, Art, Information and Communications Technology and Religious Studies.

We have a multicultural school, with all kinds of races and religions. There are Christians, Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Jews, Buddhists and many other minorities. Due to this we are all very understanding of each other and get along very well. The different races differ from Asians to Europeans, and many more that would take forever to type up.

We hope you get a little idea about our school. If you would like to know more visit our school website: http://www.rooksheath.harrow.sch.uk/

Art Workshop

OUR PROJECT

For our project two people named Alex and Nina came in to help us to know a little bit about trading. We learnt about how England got the trading which was important to London which was linked to The River Thames.

After learning about trading we started looking at a famous artist called Kurt Schweitzer who was a collage overlapping artist. He used dark colours and by looking at his pictures it makes you feel lost and a sense of loneliness.

Once we finished making notes and finding out information we started of writing down spice names which were brought to London by the East India Trading Company, we drew the spices on an A4 size paper and started shading them.

We got pictures to do with the subject and drew them, after we scanned them and did the finishing touches on Photo Shop. We also read a log book of a man who went sailing with other men around the world.
We then printed off the spice names of the computer then we used a craft knife and cut the outside of the letters. We got the actual spice and used the spice with the spice names e.g: Chilli Powder, Paprika.

We used spray mount to stick the spice onto the words. We peeled off the paper revealing our Master Piece.

THE THEME: EAST INDIA COMPANY

England’s environment was not conducive to growing spices. The east India dock company founded in 1600 ruled in providing spices. They came in London through the Thames River and supplied the spices in to London. Spices in the 17th century were very precious and very expensive because of their rarity.

The spices grew in the Spice Islands which are the Maluku islands in Indonesia and Zanzibar off the east Africa. The European countries fought over who would rule the Spice Islands. Especially the British and the Dutch. The countries with the strongest navies dominated the Spice Islands. Queen Elizabeth 1 granted a monopoly to the east India dock company to bring spices into England via the Thames River

Your River

From 1909 to 1914, Schwitters studied art in the Dresden Academy, then, he started his art career as a post-impressionist. As the Firs World War started and progressed, most of Schwitters’ work became darker, it expressing his feelings and even sketched in a expressive tone. German artists are ver yfamous for making pictures that show a lot of expressions and some of these examples are:
• Die Brücke,
• Emil Nolde,
• Ernst Kirchner.

However, in 1918, , his art work started to be more about Germany's economic, political and military collapse at the end of the First World War. To explain the reason for this, Schwitters said:
"In the war, things were in terrible turmoil. What I had learned at the academy was of no use to me and the useful new ideas were still unready....Everything had broken down and new things had to be made out of the fragments; and this is Merz. It was like a revolution within me, not as it was, but as it should have been."
Schwitters still created work in an expressionist style into 1919 (and continued to paint realist pictures up to his death in 1948). However, his first collage picture was in 1918, which Schwitters called Merz.
By the end of 1919 he became famous, after his first exhibition at Herwarth Walden's Der Sturm gallery, in June 1919, and also because of his poem called An Anna Blume ( which was usually translated as 'To Anna Flower', or 'To Eve Blossom'). It was a dadaist, non-sensical love poem, that has been published in August.
Schwitters spent most of the war working as a technical draftsman in a factory just outside Hannover.

Schwitters' work has now been completely catalogued in the Catalogue Raisonné. Collages done by Schwitters turned up almost weekly on eBay. Kurt Schwitters was a very talented artist and poet! He was very good, especially in his collages work!!!

Kurt Schwitters is a German artist. He is a very famous artist. He was born in 20th June1887, in Hannover. He was the son of a boutique owner. He died in 8th January 1948, in Kendal. He was trained by the Dresden Academy. Schwitters worked in several genres and media that includes Dadaism, Constructivism, Surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography. Schwitters is a German Dada artist and poet. He is best known for his collages. He is most famous for his Collages, he does a lot of collage work! Kurt Schwitters was certainly the odd man between all the German artists because he lived, not in Berlin like the others, but in Hanover.
Soon after the World War I, Scwitters went to the merging Dada school.

Kurt Schwitters

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