Collapsed Skills Day

Monday 4th February 2013

On Monday 4^th February  RES came alive for our second Skills Day. Students had a break from their normal timetabled lessons and took part in the following activities ~

Year 7 – All students took part in an Art related day and spent time doing various activities. They were introduced to the work of Antony Gormley who was the inspiration behind ASIAN FIELD, a vast sculptural installation comprising some 190,000 hand-sized clay figures, was made under the guidance of Antony Gormley by 350 people of all ages from Xiangshan village, north-east of the city of Guangzhou in south China. Using local clay from Guangdong Province, famous throughout China for its rich red colouring, the making took place during an intensive five-day period between 18 and 22 January 2003. The figures were then fired in the kilns of a local brick-making factory in readiness for the first showing of the work in Guangzhou, opening in March 2003, where it was shown for three months prior to touring to Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing throughout 2003 and early 2004.

Students had the opportunity to recreate these figures using clay and came up with some wonderful creations which will fired and displayed in the school.

RES Apprentice Final 2013

Congratulations to Tajmeet Arora who was yesterday crowned R E S Apprentice 2013. Well done Tajmeet and all the other finalists in this competition.

Having beaten off stiff competition in the 3 earlier rounds, our 6 Apprentice finalists, Zoe Whiteside, Harry Nicol, Harneet Nagpal, Hamza Al-Assadi, Tajmeet Arora & Chloe Wallace faced the final of the competition on Wednesday 12^th December.

 Round 3: The Crowne Plaza

Tuesday 6th November 2012

After successfully completing round 2 our remaining 10 Apprentices were taken to the Crowne Plaza at Heathrow to decide who would make it through to the final. Out of the five pairs taking part only three would succeed.

The task for this round was set by Martin Vann, Cluster Manager, who after giving students a warm welcome, gave them a guided tour of the hotel to give them an insight into all the business/conference facilities that the hotel has to offer as well as the rooms and dining experiences that the hotel can provide.

And so to the task………

The teams were set the task for developing new weekend packages that the hotel could offer providing something unique to the hotel that would encourage different types of customers to the hotel over the weekend period. These needed to be creative and innovative as well as realistic and offer a great experience for whichever types of customers the team chose as their target audience.