The college’s third Winter exhibition, showcasing students’ work from Art, Photography, Textiles, Graphics, Design & Realisation and Food Technology will be held on Thursday 6th December with opening speeches at 7pm, in the Hall.

The work on show in the Hall will be from all year groups within the college, and the students from each year who have been selected as ‘featured‘ in Art, Dance, Music, PE, Photography, Maths, History and Positive Challenges will be on display in the Entrance Gallery boards.

We are fortunate in welcoming Katarzyna Coleman, as our guest artist who will say a few words to guests at 7pm.  Ms Coleman worked with pre-Degree Art students at Great Yarmouth College, before ‘retiring’ to concentrate on her personal art work. She specialises in large scale mixed media drawings, paintings & prints that take their inspiration from urban and, more recently, rural landscapes.

 We extend an open invitation to all and look forward to meeting you at our exhibition.

During the last academic year, both Breydon Middle and Herman Middle Schools had the opportunity to visit Oriel College and participate in specialist Design and Technology lessons in food. Over the course of the year the students had three lessons where they learnt basic hygiene and safety in the kitchen and basic preparation techniques whilst cooking delicious food. Photos have been included below from these lessons.

The main aims of the visits were to enable an easier transition for students from middle to high school and to enable students to gain specialised learning within the Design and Technology subject. Both students and teachers involved felt that these aims had been met at the end of the year.

The highlight of this initiative was the Primary luncheons held in July where students came to Oriel in the morning and prepared and served food for their parents for lunch. These students had been awarded ‘Chef of the Day’ for excellence during the previous lessons and their reward was to cook at the luncheon. This was a fantastic experience and was enjoyed by all.

The Primary school lessons will be starting again for Year 6 and Year 7 Breydon and Herman Middle students after October half term.

Miss K Watson

On Friday 12^th October 2007, gifted and talented students from years ten and eleven took part in a series of mental and physical challenges at Norwich City Football Club. 

Upper school students braved the drizzle to participate in group tasks designed to stretch skills in English, maths and citizenship in the morning and in the afternoon session, designed football tasks which would enable younger students to develop specific football skills through visual, auditory and kinaesthetic learning styles.

The morning session at the club’s Study Centre, saw learners engaged in group activities based upon television’s The Apprentice. Groups had to plan and financially manage a music concert at the stadium with individual group members responsible for organising security, advertising, catering, lighting, set and stage design; with a nominated leader acting as a Project Manager overseeing the running of the event.

The groups got to grips with budget management and public relations as they made concerted efforts to organise a viable event. Sounds easy? Not really! The task coordinator kept throwing a spanner in the works by introducing ‘post’ which informed group members of last minute alterations needed to be made to their plans and meant that business plans had to be constantly reorganised! Just like the real world…

Group members then made a ‘pitch’ advocating the merits of their own plans before the task coordinator chose a winning team. Well done to Jack Taylor’s team for claiming victory!

Oriel students then stopped for lunch inside the stadium.

In the afternoon, both male and female students were organised into groups with responsibility for designing football tasks which would enhance the development of specific football skills. The groups proved their worth with dazzling displays of agility as passing, shooting and controlling games went underway to an impressed football coach.

Mr Gittins, Mr Hannant and Ms. George certainly felt that Oriel players would make a significant improvement to the current Norwich City F.C. front bench!

Well done to all for a highly enjoyable day and thanks to the Great Yarmouth Excellence Cluster for making the trip possible.

No doubt English and maths teachers will be delighted to see an improvement in speaking and listening and shrewd mental arithmetic task accomplishments from upper school gifted and talented learners…

James is the winner of the latest group competition, this time judged by our Head Teacher, Mr. Butler. 

The theme of the task was ‘Norfolk Landscapes’ and the piece judged was the final part of a coursework module, linked to a theme set from a past examination paper.

The students had to complete the work by illustrating either; what the Norfolk Landscape meant to them, or how letters & numbers figured in the local landscape.

Mr. Butler selected James’ work because he liked the images chosen & the way they were presented.

Well done James!!