The Visual Art department currenty have four students applying for the Royal Academy of Art's one-year attRAct programme of study. The four students are: Reuben Kerry (Year 13), Aadam Hussain (Year 12), Lisa Owen (Year12) and Rosina Adinkra (Year 12). All the students were invited to interview at the Royal Academy in London and are now waiting to hear if they have been accepted onto the course. If they do secure a place, they will attend once a month (last Saturday of the month) either online or in person at the Royal Academy. They will have the opportunity of working collaboratively with other like-minded students, meet professional artists, complete a series of diverse workshops, attend group discussions and tutorials, have portfolio reviews and even have work experience placements organised for them. We are keeping our fingers crossed that our students manage to get offered this fantastic opportunity by one of the world's most prestigious Art establishments, and we will update this article once we hear back from the Royal Academy.

The Visual Art department is delighted to announce that we have just been informed by the Royal Academy that Thomas Atkinson (Year 13) has had his work accepted into both the online exhibition and also the in-house summer exhibition at the Royal Academy itself. 31 students from CCS sent in artworks to the competition (which is the largest number to date) and we would like to thank them all for producing such lovely work and participating in this event. Over 21,500 young people nationally submitted work for the Youth Summer Show this year.

This is a huge achievement for Thomas, and we are incredibly proud of him. This is the second time that Thomas has managed to be accepted by the Royal Academy; the first time was to participate in the “attRAct” one-year online program of study, which he completed last year.

The youth exhibition at the Royal Academy will run from 16^th July – 11^th August and Thomas’ work will be viewed by thousands of people worldwide online and also in person.

Well done Thomas!

We are delighted to announce that Sophie Francks in Year 12 has been accepted onto the Royal Academy of Art “attRAct” one-year online programme of study.

Students across Key stage 3 have been busy getting into the Christmas spirit by designing their own Christmas card for a project supported by CCS friends. We have seen a fantastic range of designs across the three year groups!

Sales from these cards will raise additional funds for the school. I think you will agree that the below images demonstrate fantastic creativity from our young artists.

- Mrs Gee