Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year Nick Lord will be visiting the Art Department on Tuesday 8th April. Nick has worked with prestigious organisations including the National Portrait Gallery and The British Library and was awarded the recently televised Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2013.

He was also awarded a £10,000 commission to produce a portrait of Booker winning author Hilary Mantel. The portrait of Mantel has just been hung at The British Library and has become part of its permanent art collection. We are delighted that Nick has agreed to visit us in the Art Department.

He will be running a creative workshop for all Y12 & 13 art students, focusing on his own materials, methods and processes. He will also be talking about his experience of Art Foundation course and Fine Art degree as well as offering advice to students about their own work.

All parents/carers of pupils in Years 7, 8 and 9 have received letters to inform them of the dates of the National Reading and Numeracy tests.

At Stanwell, the tests will take place during 7th-9th May 2014.

Attendance is essential.

Please click here to read the Welsh Government's guide on the tests for parents/carers.

Regular readers of our updates will have followed with interest the flourishing karate career of Alexandra Slack of Year 9, an extremely talented athlete. We are delighted to report that Alexandra earned a Gold trophy along with her brother Christopher Slack (currently in Evenlode, Year 6) in Pairs Kata at the SKSM Malta International Karate Open, making them both International Karate Champions!

The tournament was of an exceptional standard, with 14 countries in attendance, including countries such as Russia, Israel, India and Italy.

There were over 500 competitors from the various nations, making Alexandra and Christopher’s achievement even more impressive. 

Congratulations to Max Scott of Year 11, who has been offered a place at the prestigious The Brit School of Performing Arts in London to study musical theatre.

Max has been a constant presence in the junior and senior productions during his time as a Stanwell student and is a talented performer.

We are sure that he will make a great success of this exciting opportunity.

Over the last seven months eight members of year twelve have been participating in this years Engineering in Education Scheme.  

The two teams were linked with RWEn Power and were given 'real-life' engineering problems currently being faced at Aberthaw power station.  

Both teams presented their final solutions at Celtic Manor on April 7th to a number of chartered engineers resulting in Team 'B' being nominated for 'Best Teamwork' and 'Best Overall Performance' for their fully automated chemical dosing system.

 
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