Welling School

Welling School is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in the Welling area of the London Borough of Bexley, England.

Welling School
Address
Elsa Road

Welling
,
Greater London
,
DA16 1LB

England
Coordinates51°28′06″N 0°06′49″E
Information
TypeAcademy
Department for Education URN136720 Tables
OfstedReports
HeadteacherRob Pett
GenderMixed
Age11 to 18
Websitehttp://www.wellingschool-tkat.org/

The school was completely redesigned and rebuilt in 2005 and became an academy in February 2012.[1] Previously Welling was a community school under the direct control of Bexley London Borough Council. The school continues to coordinate with Bexley London Borough Council for admissions.

Welling Visual Arts

The school specialises in the arts, and has dedicated facilities to support the specialism for the use of pupils and the local community. The provision is known as Welling Visual Arts[2] and includes The m3 Gallery which mainly displays pupils work, and Berwick Road Gallery which displays works by established artists such as David Hockney, Francisco Goya and Walker Evans.[3]

alTURNERtive Prize

Welling Visual Arts also organises the alTURNERtive Prize, an exhibition which encourages pupils from Welling School to engage with independent practice and is timed to coincide with the Turner Prize at the Tate Charlie Benn has won this awar 9 times, he has only been at the 5 years.[4] The alTURNERtive Prize was established in 2002 by Henry Ward, and has been judged by critics such as Michael Archer (who judged the Turner Prize the year Keith Tyson won) and has been presented by Richard Wentworth, Hew Locke and Ryan Gander.[5]

References
  1. "Welcome from the Headteacher - Welling School". Wellingschool-tkat.org. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
  2. "About Us". Wellingvisualarts.org. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
  3. "Berwick Road Gallery". Saatchigallery.com. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
  4. Key, Philip (3 December 2007). "Not Turner – but it’s far more disturbing", Liverpool Daily Post. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
  5. "Alternative Turner Prize", BBC. Retrieved 20 July 2013.


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