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ARTS AND HUMANITIES
from Caterhamian 2020
The Art Department opened its doors on Saturday 30 November to nearly 40 families of 7 to 11 year olds keen to have a taster of Caterham School style creativity. The children were encouraged to work in the style of Matisse inspired by a colourful still life set up especially for the event. Their designs were then transferred onto tote bags for life.
A lovely morning of making and sharing Caterham’s creative facilities.
ARTICULATION COMPETITION
Huge congratulations to Katie S (Lower Sixth Form) who secured a top 10 place in the highly competitive UK-wide ARTiculation 2020 competition. Katie performed her presentation at Clare College Cambridge.
Sir Nicholas Serota CH congratulated all speakers for the enormous amount of work that they put into their presentations which clearly came across. Sir Nicholas said that Katie’s presentation had great structure, with talk of abstraction and oppositions in nature and technology. Sir Nicholas liked how Katie’s talk mentioned the historical context of 1999 – with comparisons about water and art at the time which was really interesting. He also said how Katie made a very good case for film being important as an art medium. It was a great pleasure to hear Katie speak and we all hope that she is feeling very pleased with her amazing achievement.
Design Innovation &
TEEN TECH
On the 20 November we took 9 pupils to ACS Cobham International School so they could take part in this year’s TeenTech event where around 150 schools from the South East get to have a day of design and innovation.
his is an opportunity to meet professionals and
Tdiscuss their design ideas. The pupils get the opportunity to interact with new ideas, which helps to develop their own ideas. The pupils were given a mentor from industry to help guide them with a brain storming exercise in groups of two or three, they each developed a useful new design idea which was then presented to the group for evaluation of the designs. They then decided which idea to put forward and present to the other schools. After that the pupils had a look round the rest of the exhibits including Air Products, who have nothing to do with aeroplanes, but work with air and the gases therein. They are the world’s largest suppliers of hydrogen and helium. The two presenters were very engaging and the students had a lot of fun with them. Atkins were at the next stand we visited, where we had fun building a tower. Atkins are a multinational engineering, design, planning, architectural, project management and consulting company. Then we saw Thales a French multinational company that designs electrical systems for the likes of aerospace and defence. Here the pupils got to try their hand at controlling small drones and tiny robots.
“I found the day very fulfilling and fun. It was very nice to see different companies and what they work with. My favourite things were the drone flying and liquid nitrogen experiment.” Leah P
“TeenTech is a wonderful event. At first I didn’t think I would like it but when it started it was very inspiring entertaining and interactive. I definitely would recommend this to any other girl. Technology is not always thought as to be a girly thing but I really enjoyed it. There were different stations as you went around and each one was super interactive so you basically did everything yourself and I learnt so much.” Karlijn R
“I liked the building surveyor stall because they had a camera that shot a million lasers a second and spun around so they could take 360 degree pictures that were accurate enough so that they could measure the picture and it would be accurate to a millimetre in real life.” Leo K
BIRDS AND FLOWERS BY HAYLEY C, LOCKDOWN ART
POPPIES BY CHANTI M, LOCKDOWN ART
