Today we have welcomed a group of photographers from the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) into school to work with a selected group of 25 students from Year 10. We are one of only four schools working with the National Portrait Gallery on a special photography programme for Year 10 students in 2025-26, funded by the Law Photography Programme for Schools.
In today’s activities students have worked with Artist educators from the NPG to build their photography skills, creating portraits of people within the school who are significant to them. The models included both teaching staff from a range of subjects to our caretaker staff in their workroom, celebrating the whole school community and capturing a range of stories and relationships.
The next step in this project is for the students to take photographic portraits as homework, considering who is significant to them from their own community and how to communicate this in a photograph. They will then submit their favourite portraits to be considered for a photographic display at the National Portrait Gallery in the summer term 2026, bringing together the photographs by the four participating schools. The exhibition, ‘Through My Lens’, will be on display in the Studio Gallery at NPG from June-September 2026 of which we hope to be a part!
For those inspired to get clicking over the half-term break, you can see what is on at the National Portrait Gallery here.
