BSB Students Featured in ‘OneWorld Classrooms’ Art Exhibit

Year 9 student Stephanie Luiz and Year 8 student Yasmeen Moukaddem had their artwork featured at a Boston exhibit last month, part of the OneWorld Classrooms celebration of Boston Arts Week.

The exhibition ran from April 28 through May 3 at 1 International Place and featured 120 pieces of art created by elementary, middle and high school students from Greater Boston and 38 countries around the world, part of the annual OneWorld Classrooms programs.

OneWorld Classrooms’ mission is to foster global awareness and cross-cultural understanding to prepare young people for local and global citizenship in culturally diverse settings.

The organization works to connect young people through arts and technology, offering programs and services through which young people share, collaborate and explore with their peers from different cultures.

Stephanie and Yasmeen submitted art to the program last year, and received word this month that their pieces were selected to appear in the exhibit.

Congratulations to both of our students!

BSB Celebrates Art Competition Honors

Seven British School of Boston students were honored this week as part of Celebrating Art, a national art competition.

Art submissions by Elyse Endlich, Holly Chadwick, Katia Rozenberg, Georgia Adamson, Kelly Lee, Robbie Reilly and Beatriz Doblas were selected by the competition judges as part of the top 25 percent of all submissions received. The students’ work will be judged again in the next round of competition to see if they are selected for the top 10 percent of entries.

All of our students in the top 25 percent of entries will have their work published in a book printed by Celebrating Art. Celebrating Art works with teachers to motivate student artists and to create a permanent record of the best entries from the organization’s annual art contest.

Congratulations to our students for their award-winning art! Check out some of their work below:

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BSB Explores Connections Between Science and the Arts

It was a busy week at BSB last week, as students and staff explored the connections between science, technology and the arts with the school’s annual STEAM Week celebration.

More and more schools around the world have placed a growing emphasis on science and technology education in recent years, working to ensure students are prepared to enter the careers of tomorrow. But at BSB, and a growing number of other schools, the arts are added to that mix. STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) Week explores how these areas of study connect, both in the classroom and in everyday life.

Throughout the year groups, student spent time exploring real-life applications of the intersection between science and the arts, joining with staff members, community members and parents for hands-on learning opportunities.

Students in the middle and high school explored science and the arts in the community, visiting the Body Worlds exhibit at Boston’s Faneuil Hall, a stem-cell lab in the city and a workshop at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Year 10 students started work on a media arts project with Harvard University and UNICEF, making their own media and helping to curate work by other students from around the world, which will be displayed at Harvard Law.

Middle school students kicked off new learning units last week with STEAM learning, going geocaching at the Arnold Arboretum and participating in enameling and glass-making workshops.

In the lower school, students heard from parents who work in fields that require both science and the arts and worked with their teachers on science-inspired art projects. Students though about their dreams for the future, and the kind of technology they thought would be developed by the time they are adults, and used their artistic skills to create a representation of their vision.

Students also made their own kites, ice cream and “flubber,” learning about the science behind these artistic- and yummy- creations.

It was a great week of learning throughout the year groups. A big thanks goes out to the school staff, parents and greater community for their help making the week so successful for students!

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From the Lower School: Arts Masterclass

On Wednesday morning, the students in Year 3 were treated to an Art Masterclass! Mr. Williams Bulkeley came into work alongside our reside artist, Mr. Rod Thomas. Children learned new skills in art, taking in details on topics such as shading, illustration, and color. Students have been studying Margaret Mee and Henri Rosseau, and as such attempted to emulate the styles of those two artists.

How did it go? Have a look for yourself!

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Year 2 Creates Little Red Riding Hood Photo Books with Their Own Artwork (Part I)

Year 2’s Chicago and San Francisco classes have been very busy! They have been learning how to use Photoshop, applying their creative side to produce images which illustrate a specific part of a story – in this case, Little Red Riding Hood. Each student worked with a specific part of the story. While each student created their own artwork, they worked together to create a much bigger project!

Below you can see how Chicago put their story together. If you would like to purchase a copy, you can do so here. Enjoy the story (you may need to pause the pictures to read each narration), and tomorrow we will show you San Francisco’s version!

(Some of the captions are difficult to read, so they have been produced in full below the slideshow.)

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1. Once upon a time there was a little girl called Little Red Riding Hood. She lived in a house close to the forest.
2. One day, Little Red Riding Hood’s grandmother was not feeling well so her mother said, “Please go to Grandma’s house and bring her this soup and these apples.”
3. As she was leaving, Little Red Riding Hood’s mother said, “Stay on the path and do not talk to strangers.”
4. While Little Red Riding Hood was walking to Grandma’s house she met a wolf and told him where she was going.
5. The wolf told Little Red Riding Hood a shortcut to get to Grandma’s house and she followed it.
6. The wolf had tricked her. The shortcut was longer than the path so the wolf sneaked to Grandma’s house while Little Red Riding Hood was on the shortcut.
7. When he got to Grandma’s house he knocked on the door and said, “It’s me, Little Red Riding Hood.” “Come in dear,” replied Grandma.
8. The wolf went inside and gobbled up Grandma! He dressed in her clothes, got back into bed and snuggled under the covers.
9. Little Red Riding Hood arrived at Grandma’s house, knocked on the door and said, “It’s me, Little Red Riding hood!” The wolf replied, “Come in my dear.”
10. Little Red Riding Hood approached Grandma and said, “Grandma, what big eyes you have!” The wolf replied, “All the better to see you with, my dear.”
11. Next she said, “Grandma, what big ears you have!” The wolf replied, “All the better to hear you with, my dear!”
12. Then she said, “Grandma, what a big mouth you have!” The wolf replied, “Better to eat you with my dear!”
13. The wolf gobbled up Little Red Riding Hood.
14. A woodcutter saw what was happening in Grandma’s house and jumped into the window.
15. The wolf was frightened. The woodcutter warned, “If you don’t let Grandma and Little Red Riding Hood out, I will cut you in half to recue them.”
16. The wolf decided to open his mouth to let Grandma and Little Red Riding Hood out. The wolf ran far away and the woodcutter, Grandma and Little Red Riding Hood lived happily ever after.

From the High School: Theory of Knowledge Art Project (Part II)

Before the holidays one of our many blog posts featured Theory of Knowledge students and their art projects. The concepts were based off of the work done by Erik Johanson, a Swedish artish two takes real photographs and morphs images together to create something unexpected.

Below are a few more projects. There are two completed projects, along with their storyboards, as well as two storyboards from completed projects in the entry linked above. Enjoy some great work from our Year 12 students!

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Early Years Decorates Tree with Artwork

Late last week, Toddler, Nursery, Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 classes took turns decorating the tree in the lobby with artwork from their classes. Some are made of paper, other appear to be made of nothing but glitter, but one thing is for certain: the tree looks amazing! If you stop into school this week, be sure to check out what our younger students have been up to in art class!

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From the Lower School: Learning to Draw What You Observe

Last week we hit a bit of a cooler streak of weather here in Boston, and the timing worked so that the leaves really began to turn at the same time. Today it has been surprisingly mild however, so our Reception classes took to the outdoors to enjoy the best of both worlds: the weather and the colors.

By drawing what they see, students continued learning to recreate on paper what they observe in real life. They followed instructions well, using only the colors they could see and creating some very colorful drawings. See them in action in a few photos below!

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