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Saatchi Gallery next stop for Misbourne artwork
The creative work of pupils at The Misbourne School will be showcased at the renowned Saatchi Gallery.
The school in Misbourne Drive, Great Missenden, is one of only 15 to be picked from schools across the world to display the best examples of its art work.
Pupils were picked after uploading their work onto the website and were competing with youngsters from places like China and Australia.
Within the next few months, a selection of work will be displayed at the gallery, with each school remaining up for a month. At the end of the 15 months, the winning school will receive £10,000 with the best pupil winning a cash prize to spend on art materials.
Maxine Nichols, head of facilities for art and technology, is thrilled by the pupils success.
She said: "The pupils think it is so exciting and we are just waiting for it all to go up so we visit and celebrate.
"The students here are very creative and we encourage them to create something to do with their interests and strength. So if we have a student who likes science we encourage them to explore that through art."
This is just the latest in a string of art successes for the school. Pupils Charlotte Bole, Elizabeth Fells, William Rugless, Carmen Cheng and Laura Hoben were ranked in the top ten in the country for art at GSCE level and student Sam Wilkinson, 18, was highly commended in Buckinghamshire Young Artist of the Year competition.
At AS-Level, Jessica Leslau was ranked in the top 10 and has so impressed universities with her work, that she has been offered places without needing to do the usual foundation course.
Her work will be exhibited in the gallery and she said: "It is amazing that our school got picked because so many have entered.
"I'm obsessed with the visual world and I don't think in any other way. I have always been like that and I would like to become an illustrator or animater."
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