Author: Miss Joice

Winners! Trade House School Craft Competition 2026

Earlier this month we entered our S5 & 5 pupils Design Final Outcomes into Trade House’s School Craft Competition 2026, alongside the Design & Technology Department.
The judging panel came out to the school and shortlisted a number of our pupils.
We are absolutely delighted to share the names of our King’s Park prize winners, who were chosen from amongst 28 Glasgow schools!

We are so proud of our candidates and all of their hard work to produce the fantastic art and design work that has won them their prizes. We have included links to the S3 Graphics folios and photographs of Brooke, Megan & Navlyn’s pieces.

Mr O’Donnelly & I will be escorting our fabulous winners to the ceremony where they will be awarded their prizes in a couple of weeks time!

Brooke Fraser – 1ST PRIZE – Higher Art & Design
Megan Glover – JOINT 2ND PRIZE – National 5 Art & Design
Navlyn Perika – 2ND PRIZE – National 5 Product Design & Manufacturing
Leah Walker – Commended – National 5 Graphic Commucations  https://sway.cloud.microsoft/PiPQWpkFsjiBqTwk?ref=Link
Elodie Smith – 1ST PRIZE – S3 Graphic Communications https://sway.cloud.microsoft/oWOFN13EDrgfWdu2?ref=Link
Aniela Smith – 2ND PRIZE – S3 Graphic Comunications https://sway.cloud.microsoft/WWwZUAxrsU8F3feX?ref=Link
Nathanael Arthur – 3RD PRIZE – S3 Graphic Communications https://sway.cloud.microsoft/0zvhoOLJHEpBUxc1?ref=Link

Black + White Photography Magazine

We are a very proud and excited Art, Design & Photography Department today because the latest issue of Black + White Photography Magazine is released today and it features a brilliant article about our favourite alumni photographer, Simon Murphy, in which he talks about working with many of our King’s Park Secondary pupils including our NPA Photographers.

You may remember that I shared some images on our department Instagram of the class viewing some of their test prints for the first time and the 4th page of the article is some of their work! Homan Shawqi, Hamza Oz, Eve Baillie and Kacper Truszkowski have had photographs published alongside a selection of Simon’s images.

The COVER of the magazine also features the wonderful Eve Baillie, a Photography and Art & Design pupil modelling the structure for her Higher Design piece, a beautiful shot of her showcasing her hard work.

This is part of the ongoing project with King’s Park that Simon has been working on, also alongside our colleagues in Modern Languages and English.

We so delighted for this small sample of our department superstars and grateful to Simon and Black + White Photography Magazine for giving our pupils this unbelievable opportunity.

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School Values Logo Competition

Remember, the deadline to enter our School Values Logo Competition is the end of the school day tomorrow!

The logo must feature each of our school values – Kindness, Ambition, Respect and Equality. It should be bright, bold and easy to understand as it will represent our School Community.

Entries can be digital or hand rendered (drawn or painted).

Entries should be put into the Big Blue Box in Miss Joice’s room – (Rm 312, pictured below). Digital entries should be emailed to Miss Joice at gw24joicekatie@glow.sch.uk with your full name and class. The top entries will be selected by a committee following the February Weekend.

Thank you for your ideas!

 

Senior Art & Design Skills Workshops

Miss Joice’s senior class had a very productive double period today experimenting with ink and dying techniques as part of their second National 4 & 5 Skills Workshop for their Design portfolio.

They’ll use these inked papers to cover their white models, which will then become the final piece of their Design folio.

Have a look through our gallery to see some examples of their inking and their incredible white models.

Fantastic work everyone, exciting things are happening!