Art Exhibition
Bosworth Independent College Art Department is particularly pleased with this year’s Art Exhibition. Both GCSE and A Level students have displayed their work alongside their personal sketch books for all to view.
Mrs Barsby (Head of Art) has enjoyed the amount of creativity shown by this year’s candidates with each student showing a real individuality to their work. This is obviously testament to the teaching staff allowing each student to develop their own unique style.
Students throughout the year work on all initial ideas within their sketchbooks. They begin by utilising the more traditional art methods including; observational drawing, water colour, pen and ink, charcoal and pastel. Alongside working on these methods they study artists from all the main art movements.
For unit 1 the set theme was ‘natural forms’ and students begin by looking at shells, landscapes, bones and vegetables in order to develop the traditional techniques.
From the knowledge and understanding that student’s gain during the year they can then decide on which theme they wish to develop for their final piece of work.
From this year’s exhibition we can see students have been influenced by varying artists/movements; Marc Chagall, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Jasper Johns, Pop Art, Roy Litchenstein, Georgia O’Keefe, Salvador Dali, Claude Monet and the Impressionists, Vincent Van Gogh and Pablo Picasso.
Students have produced final art pieces in textiles, film, oils, acrylics, origami and mixed media. This year it has been exciting to witness the development of all the original interpretations and we are extremely proud of the work that has been produced.
More on A Level Art at Bosworth
Students join live international link-up with Tanzanian school
Last October, Bosworth
Independent College students had the opportunity to speak
live to a student and teacher from a school for the blind
in Tanzania. The teacher was an ex student of the school
and was also blind.
The school was set up approximately 10 years ago and is a
salvation for the blind students who are chosen as before
they would have been in classes of over 100 children in a
normal school, which obviously limited their ability to
learn.
The link up was part of the BBC ‘Hunger to Learn’ series and
Bosworth Independent College was
chosen because of its international student mix.
Five Bosworth students got the opportunity to take part
throughout the day and we were on two channels BBC world
and BBC news channel. Students were sat in front of a web
cam, watching themselves as well as the student and
teacher in Tanzania on the screen.
Through the headset the BBC gallery staff instructed the
students how long they had before going live to the link
up. Once live, the students on average got to ask about 4
questions each.
The Tanzanian student understood some of our questions
and we did manage to find out his favourite football team
was Everton! The teacher was able to explain to us in
more detail what life is like in Tanzania, what the
school day consisted of and why he had chosen to go into
teaching.
It was a fascinating insight for Bosworth students to
take part in the live link up and to get to understand
how little some schools have in the way of facilities. It
was a humbling experience for all involved and definitely
made the students recognise how lucky they are to receive
a good education.
Time Slots
10.30 BBC world – Anastasia Venetska
(Ukraine)
10.40 BBC news channel – Radek Freyer (Polish)
11.30 BBC news channel – Chak Sum Leung (Chinese)
14.30 BBC world – Sam Flowers (British)
14.40 BBC news channel – Harpreet Kaur (British)
The BBC news live link-up with Harpreet is available to
view on the BBC website.
Why choose to study at Bosworth Independent College?
We house International students from over 20 different countries along with UK pupils who primarily join us as day students.
Which means anyone who joins the College from the UK enters a rich cultural experience, mixing with students from all over the world. This greatly broadens their view of the world and their understanding of International issues.
We also strongly believe students are challenged by their International counterparts particularly in the subjects of maths and science and it opens their eyes to the competitiveness they will face at University level. Pre University, we encourage students to raise their game at GCSE and A Level, ensuring they work consistently hard towards their final exams.
The College has been established for over 33 years and has grown from a small tutorial college into a learning centre for over 300 students. With highly experienced teaching staff and average class sizes of 8 to a class, students are given the support and attention they require to achieve their full potential.
For GCSE we offer either a one or two year programme with 16 subject options on the current curriculum.
The two year GCSE course is aimed at students who are 14 and just joining the GCSE learning level, these students will take 7-10 subjects.
The one year GCSE course is aimed at International students or slightly older UK students who are looking to progress to A Level’s as quickly as possible and they take 5-7 GCSE’s.
For A Level we also offer a one or two year programme with 22 subject options on the two year programme and 7 subject choices for the one year option on the current curriculum.
The one year A Level is aimed at UK students who have already studied to a higher level and they either need to retake or they want to choose a new subject. Or for International students who have already studied to a higher level and have the ability to complete A Levels in one year.
Our aim for our UK students is to teach them from GCSE to A Level (14-18 years) ensuring they reach their full potential to achieve the University of their choice. Nearly all of our students progress to University, but we pride ourselves that last year 59% of our A Level students left to attend one of the top 25 UK Universities.
Our A Level results are outlined in full in the results section.
