A* success for BGS art students
ART students at a Yorkshire independent school were celebrating after everyone on their A Level course gained an A*.
Sam Dixon, Lizzie Gibbins, and Emma Makin were among those who were delighted after collecting their results at Bradford Grammar School (BGS).
Lizzie, 18, of Ilkley, paints mostly in oils and will now attend Durham University to study Social Sciences.
She said: “It’s really nice to get this grade after a lot of hard work. You may have the skill, but you have to put the time in with a subject like Art. Whatever we wanted to do, Mrs Horsfield made it happen, which made the course so interesting.”
Sam, 18, of Menston, said he was looking forward to heading to Edinburgh University to study Interior Design following his art studies.
“I’m delighted with my grade,” he said. “I was inspired by the work of David Hockney and even more so when I found he’d gone to BGS!”
Emma Makin, 18, of Burley in Wharfedale, works in mixed media and will go on to take a Foundation Art course at Leeds Arts University.
“I’m very happy with my grade,” she said. “I’ve enjoyed the fact that you can experiment at BGS. There have been so many experts within the staff and mediums to try.”
Sarah Horsfield, Head of Art at BGS, said of her students: “They were the dream GCSE team and now the dream A Level team. They worked hard as a group and supported each other, bringing new ideas to the table which was really refreshing.”