News Category: Art

Before the recent Lower School Parents’ Morning, parents and staff were treated to a showcase of some of the excellent work the Year 7 and 8 students have been producing in the Creative Arts. From the Fourths’ (Year 7s’) paper sculptures to the Upper Fourths’ (Year 8s’) LAMDA drama pieces, there was an impressive array […]

At Benenden, holding a Scholarship is a position of honour, with enhanced responsibility and opportunity to match. Each year, the School’s most accomplished musicians, artists, actors, designers and athletes are rewarded for their talent and dedication with Scholarship places that heighten chances to excel in their specialist fields. We invited some of our Scholars to […]

The Art and Creative Technology department was visited by Hope Fitzgerald, a creative artist, bookbinder and owner of the business Bindfulness, for a series of bookbinding workshops. Students in the Fifth (Year 10), Six One (Year 12) and Six Two (Year 13) had the opportunity to make their own hand-crafted sketchbooks based on the skills Hope taught […]

Pupils recently programmed Sphero bots to create artworks for their Creative Technology lessons. The hard work the Fourths (Year 7s) have put into learning to program their Sphero bots in their lessons finally paid off, as they took to the Science Atrium to create some large-scale abstract paintings.The spherical moving robots were programmed to move in […]

Ruby, a student in Six One (Year 12), recently represented the School in the ARTiculation competition at Creative Folkestone. More than 6,000 students are now involved in the annual ARTiculation competition, which invites participants to deliver ten-minute presentations on a piece of art, architecture, or an artefact, in competition against one another. After initial inter-school heats, […]

This year’s Benenden Arts Festival has come to a fun-filled close after a three-day celebration of the arts. This afternoon’s traditional summer fete signalled the end of the extravaganza, which has featured more than 40 different events and activities. This morning we held two entertaining sessions of the Great Benenden Bake-Off, kindly judged once again […]

Benenden is counting down the days to its annual Arts Festival, being held this weekend. Between Friday afternoon and Sunday afternoon, we are hosting dozens of events, featuring performances, displays and workshops from a host of pupils, staff and guests. These include a concert from the renowned James Taylor Quartet on Saturday night , to […]

Benenden pupil Saiesha Gupta has won a prestigious national photography prize. 16-year-old Saiesha won the ‘Better Environment’ category of the competition for her photograph ‘Pashmina’, and took home a prize of £150 in vouchers and a trophy at an awards ceremony held at Espacio gallery in London on 26 March. Her image was also displayed […]

Thank you to everyone who came along to a very sunny Benenden Arts Festival this weekend to enjoy a wonderful few days of dance, drama, music, poetry, art, crafts, comedy, food, wine and much more! The event got underway on Thursday night when Red Priest gave girls a taste of their unique brand of Baroque […]