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History teacher Mrs Zuzana Crouch set the boys the
task of drawing their own cartoons so they would have
a better understanding of how important political cartoons
can be in depicting the mood of the times. Visitors will
have the chance to see the cartoons displayed at the
school's open afternoon on Monday 13 October, when they
will also be able to the school in action. The cartoons
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Over the next few months,
Mrs Crouch's Year 10 Modern History GCSE class will move
on to studying political cartoons from the start of the
20th century up to the collapse of communism in 1989. |
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"Interpreting cartoons is one of the skills
they have to have for the GCSE," she explained."Getting
them firstly to discuss the Iraq situation and the
dossier and then to draw cartoons about it was a very
good, interesting way for them to learn this skill.
This is an excellent way of getting a 15-year-old to
understand the current situation in Iraq and the Dr
Kelly affair. They soon realise that every detail of
a cartoon matters."
The cartoons
drawn by Mrs Crouch’s class include one by 14-year-old
Henry Lowe depicting beleaguered Defence Secretary
Geoff Hoon as a gunslinger in High Noon, one by Tim
Robinson, also 14, that shows Tony Blair, Alastair
Campbell and Geoff Hoon literally pinning the blame
on to each other’s back and a panoramic drawing
by Kenny
Guppy entitled The Way It Is.
Bristol
Cathedral School Headmaster Mr Kevin Riley said: “While
academic achievement is important, I believe education
shouldn’t just be about passing exams. It should
also be about helping young people to understand the
world around them – and drawing political cartoons
is an excellent, creative way of doing that.”
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