Painting by numbers

Our year 7 artists have been focusing on Colour Theory this term, learning all about the fabulously vibrant and abstract work by Jasper Johns. They have had a go at recreating Johns’ work by learning colour mixing and refining with oil pastel details – fantastic work year 7!

Super-sized sculptures adorn art room

Year 9 have had a fabulous summer term completing oversized sculptures inspired by Claes Oldenberg. Some fantastic new additions to add to our classroom collection! This project is always a brilliant one to finish KS3 on – students work in teams to do so and it’s highly anticipated by students as soon as they enter […]

Successful Christmas Concert

  On the 13th December the Drama and Music departments showcased the incredible array of talents within the Bicester School in a Christmas Concert. The lower school hall was festively decorated with Christmas trees, fairy lights and presents to get the audience in the mood for the first Christmas Concert that has been held in a […]

Pride Month poster and poem winners announced

During Pride Month, we ran two competitions and a fundraising campaign, focusing both on the experience of LGBTQ+ and the experience of refugees and asylum seekers, and we had some superb entries! Posters for Pride Everyone who entered a poster has been given 20 merits, but the winner (after much deliberation) was Julia Bychowska (7.6). […]

Art students visited by Geometric Portrait Artist

On 15 October, Geometric Portrait Artist Josh Bryan visited The Bicester School to run a Saturday School workshop. 37 students attended to work with Josh and recreate portraits of The Bicester School’s House mascots (David Attenborough, Emmeline Pankhurst, C.S. Lewis and Bobby Moore). The students created depth and tone to the portraits by using patterns. It […]

Students take part in graffiti workshop

Mrs Ware and Ms Powell recently took a selection of GCSE students to Graffik Gallery in London for an afternoon graffiti workshop. Students learnt various techniques that could be applied with spray paint and all created hand cut stencils of iconic people of their choice. Alongside creating graffiti on canvas, the students were fortunate enough […]