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Specialisms NewsletterSpecialisms Newsletter Spring 2011Spring 2011

A Specialist Arts, Maths, Computing and SEN CollegeA Specialist Arts, Maths, Computing and SEN College

Whole School Musical

December 2010

Full report inside

This ship is about to set sail . . .

This year’s musical production of ‘Anything Goes’ included a cast of students from Year 7 to 13 and was truly a whole school event. Casting auditions took place in September and dance, drama, and music rehearsals started in October to prepare for the three-night show which was performed to a packed out theatre over three nights in December.

‘Anything Goes’ tells the story of a group of passengers travelling on a luxury cruise liner from America to England. The musical follows their antics aboard the ship and on 1st, 2nd, and 3rd December, St Marylebone School Theatre became the setting to tell the stories of the characters on the journey. The fantastic songs were accompanied by an orchestra live on stage, complementing the amusing storylines which were brilliantly acted by the whole cast. Lively dances with great choreography had the toes of the audience tapping and the production was a huge success. Well done to the entire cast of students, especially those in the lead roles, and to the musicians, technical team, backstage helpers, and staff who made the whole event possible!

The Performing Arts faculty was lucky enough to be successful in its bid to be part of a project led

by Creative Partnerships, the government’s flagship creative arts programme to link schools with

external arts practitioners. We are delighted to be working with the Graeae Theatre Company, the

UK’s only disabled led theatre group, based in East London. Students from Year 7 are working along-

side the Sixth Form students from College Park in a pioneering project with the SEN faculty that

pushes the boundaries of students’ perception of how the performing arts can reach out to a wider

audience.

Based on the short story of The Iron Man by Ted Hughes, students and teachers are exploring the

themes of inclusivity, the environment and performance art. Practitioners from the Graeae Theatre

Company are leading six sessions with the students during the second half of the spring term. We

have had three sessions so far and all have been hugely successful.

During the first session, the students created their own ‘sign names’, which deaf

people use as a type of shorthand to avoid spelling out names with individual letter

signs. The participants played games as part of a warm-up and then discussed the

story of The Iron Man, acting out the story in a very simple fashion. Creating their

own ‘Iron Men’ out of tinfoil allowed the students to be highly creative.

The second session saw the students learn more about theatre communication

for those audience members with visual or hearing impairments. This involved

describing a scene through words to allow the audience to picture the action.

The students also acted out the part of the farmers in The Iron Man without

words but with extra expressions to show emotion, aimed at those who may

have hearing difficulties within a theatre. This was an interesting experience

for the students who are able to fully experience theatre through both sight

and sound.

We will look forward to sharing more about this fantastic project with you next term!

The students have been lucky enough to have a read-through of the first draft of the script that Graeae

will use for their open-air production of The Iron Man, which will be taking place in London in July.

They were also able to see the artistic designs for the physical structure for the character of the Iron Man

in the production.

The annual Dance Show, this year entitled „A Night at the Musicals‟, took place on Wednesday 16th and Thursday 17th February in the St Marylebone School Theatre. The diversity in dance styles presented was incredible: Jazz, Street Dance, Break Dancing, Tap, Modern Ballet, Latin, Contemporary, Lindy Hop and more were allon display. Never before have so many students been involved in the show: almost 170 students performed on both nights and tickets sold out a week before the event. Performances from Marylebone Dance Company, Dance Scholars, selected Year 9 students, B-boys and B-girls, Year 7 & 8 Dance Clubs and Westminster Junior Dance Company combined to make the show a huge success. Well done to all of the dancers involved!

Year 9 ‘All That Jazz’ Massive congratulations to ALL year 9 students who performed for each other in the lunchtime sharing on Friday 12th February. They all worked very hard on their 'All That Jazz' pieces and it was great to see them all perform so well for each other. Here are some of the students‟ own thoughts about the performance: “Making our own dance and performing in the showing was fun and different.” “Performing in front of the whole of Year 9 gave us an opportunity to perform with our friends in front of our peers.” “Being able to perform in the theatre was a very enjoyable experience.”

Mrs E. Montsumi - Head of Dance

On Thursday 17th December the annual Festival of Readings and Carols was held at St Marylebone Parish Church. Young Voices performed carols in the foyer of the church as people entered and there was a packed programme of pieces performed by many of the school music groups. Symphony Orchestra accompanied the carols as well as performing their own orchestral pieces; Shout Out sang from the back of the church; and the whole of Year 7 sang ‘Gloria’ which they had been learning in their music lessons.

There were performances from Church Choir, the Staff and Sixth Form Choir, and Chamber Choir. A String Quartet of Sixth Form and GCSE students played Corelli’s Christmas Concerto, conducted by Kitty Cardoso. The readings were coordinated by Miss Dempster and the Debating Club, and there were also dancers and drama students performing.

The church was absolutely full and the atmosphere was fantastic. After the finale of ‘O Come All Ye Faithful’, which was performed with a trumpet voluntary and descant from the balcony, the PTA served refreshments in the theatre which was a lovely way to celebrate the Christmas spirit. It even snowed as we all left the church, providing a perfect finish to the winter term. Well done to all the students and staff involved, and thank you to the audience for joining in!

HANDEL PROJECT

St Marylebone School has been invited to take part in a music project involving the Handel House Museum and the London Handel Festival.

The project has been offered to Choral Scholars who will be involved in creating original vocal compositions using Handel’s opera ‘Rodelinda’ as the stimulus. ’Rodelinda’ is the main performance piece at this year’s London Handel Festival and will be performed in March by Opera students from the Royal College of music.

The Choral Scholars have attended four after school sessions to create their new vocal works, and their pieces will be performed by Royal College of Music students at the Britten Theatre (RCM) after the Easter break. Details of the performance will be posted on the Music Department blog (smsmusic.typepad.com).

Mr. P. Jones - Director of Music

The Young Producers project is a new initiative that has been set up this year by Wigmore Hall’s Learning Department. The project aims to get young people involved in the planning, administration, production, and promotion of a concert. Fifteen students from St. Marylebone Sixth Form have taken up the challenge . . .

The Young Producers project is supported by the John Lyon’s charity and the Samuel Sebba Charitable Trust.

The performance will take place on Friday 1st April at 5.30pm at the Wigmore Hall. Tickets are priced at £3 and can be bought from the Wigmore Hall Box Office on 0207 935 2141. All proceeds from the concert will go to the Make-A-Wish Foundation, a charity which grants ‘wishes’ to children living with life threatening illnesses, giving them the opportunity to enjoy an activity or event which they would otherwise not be able to take part in. The Young Producers are aiming to sell out the venue in order to raise as much money as possible for the charity.

The students have been working alongside Julia Roderick, Learning Producer at Wigmore Hall, having regular meetings to discuss the event and the organisation. They are working towards producing a concert which will be aimed at young people to inspire more school students to attend classical music concerts. Students have taken complete ownership of all artistic and business related issues including liaising with artists, arranging publicity, and budgeting.

The concert the students have planned will feature Ignite, a chamber group of professional musicians. The group will perform a variety of material for the concert including classical pieces by Ravel and Mendelssohn as well as original music devised especially for the Young Producers event. The performance will also include a DJ set from DJ Etch-a-Sqratch as well as incorporating artistic visuals. The subtitle of the concert is aptly named as ‘A Total Work Of Art’ covering all of the artistic elements which will be on display.

The students have been working hard to publicise the event: they have had an article put in the Wood & Vale newspaper and have also been interviewed on BBC Radio 3: a podcast of this interview can be found at www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/interact/wigmore-hall-podcasts/young-producers. There are also special flyers for the event which will be distributed to students, parents, and staff at St Marylebone as well as in the local area.

“The aim of the Young Producers project is to offer young people an

opportunity to devise a concert at Wigmore Hall completely under their

own terms, and further personal and professional aspirations through

involvement in project planning and engagement with professional artists

at a renowned venue.”

Young Producers

On Tuesday 15th March over thirty members of Young Voices went to sing at the Royal Albert Hall as part of the Prom Praise for Schools event.

St Marylebone girls took part in the afternoon rehearsal at the Albert Hall alongside all of the other school participants, where they sang with the orchestra for the first time. The evening performance also included orchestral pieces, performances from the Gospel Choir from Twyford High School, and even some Irish dancing! The music was interspersed with spoken performances which told the stories of John Newton, Joshua Watson, and Angela Burdett Coutts, three people with fantastic legacies having given their own time and effort to create and support Church schools.

Many school groups attended the performance as well as individuals, and the songs had the audience standing to sing as well! There were pyrotechnic fireworks around the gallery before the interval and at the Finale of the concert the All Souls’ Orchestra performed a medley of well-known classical music melodies as an encore.

Members of Young Voices (singers from Year 7 and 8) had been rehearsing for a number of weeks, both at St Marylebone and with other schools who participated in the event. Singers from fourteen schools from across London combined forces to create a massed choir for the event, having all learnt the songs separately. The choir was accompanied by the All Souls’ Orchestra, which regularly plays for Prom Praise events and has been supporting the Prom Praise for Schools performances for the past five years.

The Royal Albert Hall was filled with music and singing from all directions and the St Marylebone girls and all the other performers thoroughly enjoyed the performance. Well done to all involved!

PROM PRAISE

FOR SCHOOLS

Wihan Quartet

Marylebone Dance Company

I found this concert very enriching, as I have never properly listened to professional string players, and I felt that the quartet, especially in the first piece (String Quartet No. 1 'Kreutzer Sonata' by Leos Janacek), portrayed excellently the deep emotion that the composer intended the 'characters' in the music to feel, as they played with brilliant vigour and enthusiasm.

The second performance, Haydn’s String Quartet Op. 33 no.2 'Joke', was my favourite of the three, because it was the most light-hearted and upbeat. The long silences in the otherwise textured music seemed, to me, very emphatic, as they created tension in the room as you sat on the edge of your seat wondering, "Is it the end of the piece? Or is it right in the mid-

dle?" (hence the title 'Joke'). The bounciness and lightness of the first violin was maintained throughout the whole performance. The third and final piece, String Quartet in A Flat, Op. 105 no.14 by Antonin Dvorak, was the most solemn, but arguably the most impressive, as the musicians managed to coincide their long, drawn-out notes perfectly with one another; there was never a 'blip'. It was quite sorrowful, being in a minor key, but brilliantly performed.

All in all, I am very grateful to have been given this opportunity and would recommend the Wihan Quartet to anyone who was in the least bit doubtful! Thank you very much for giving us the opportunity to go and see the Wihan Quartet at Blandford Street!

Kitty Low 8H

A huge well done to Marylebone Dance Company who performed at the prestigious SSAT Arts College Conference in January. The conference took place in Warwick over two days and was attended by teachers and arts practitioners from across the country.

The standard of the company’s performance was excellent and a tribute to their determination, having boarded a train to Warwick at 6am! A particular thank you and well done to Grace Benson in Year 13 who choreographed two of the pieces .

This visit by the Wihan Quartet of Prague was sponsored by the CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust.

To finish off Term 3 with a bang, Year 9 Galois and Pythagoras classes combined for a Maths Treasure Hunt with Mr Le Fanu and Dr Baxandall in the school courtyard. Rushing around to solve mathematical money problems involving Ogitanian ogs and disentangling the intricacies of Maths Men provided just what was needed to warm everyone on a cold February afternoon. Winners of the hunt were Sara Fernandez and Susie Bowman of Pythagoras class - well done!

UKMT Team Challenge In March, four of our best Key Stage 3 Mathematicians travelled to the City of London School to take part in the UK Mathematics Trust Team Challenge Regional Finals. The competition promotes mathematical dexterity, team working, and communication skills, giving pupils the opportunity to com-pete against pupils from other schools. Congratulations to Kitty Low and Cherry Elliott-Millar (Year 8) and Maree Petsoglou and Rachel Sfeir (Year 9) who came 8th in their regional final out of nearly 30 teams. “The Team Mathematics Challenge was an extremely enjoyable experience. It consisted of four different challenges, each of varying difficulty. Overall, we were extremely pleased with our position of 8th”. Rachel Sfeir and Maree Petsoglou

UKMT Individual Challenge Every year our top students take part in the UK Mathematics Trust Individual Challenge. These involve 25 Maths based problem solving questions. The results are in for the Intermediate Challenge (Years 9, 10 and 11) where our students received a total of 44 awards, that’s more than half of the students entered! Particular congratulations go to Eva Barnett (Year 9), Nermin Hayek (Year 10) and Imogen Foster (Year 11) for getting the highest marks in their respective year groups.

Karen Martin Scholarship The Karen Martin Scholarship is an award of £1000 given to a current Year 12 student who demonstrates a genuine interest in pursuing a career in Engineering. Applicants had to provide a written statement as well as present their ideas about an area of Engineering of particular interest to them to a ‘Dragon’s Den’ style panel. The standard of applications this year was very high and six particularly talented students were short-listed to face the panel. While all showed themselves to be excellent candidates, two individuals shone through. Deciding between the final two presented the interviewing panel with a more difficult decision than they could have imagined. In the end there was no way to resolve the deadlock other than to take the highly un-usual decision to award two scholarships.

A sample question: In my purse I have five coins: 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p and 20p. How many different sums of money can I make with these coins?

Congratulations go to all the applicants and in particular, to the two worthy winners, Maggie Chlon and Sarah MacGuire. Maggie is hoping her sixth form studies in Maths, Further Maths, Physics and Chemistry will help her fulfil her ambitions to pursue further study in Quantum Mechanics. Sarah is hoping her sixth form subject choices of Maths, Further Maths, Physics, Chemistry and Biology will help her enter her chosen field in Bio-Medical Engineering.

MATHS

Maths Mondays

The St. Marylebone Making Maths Matter (M3) Initiative is well underway with the launch of Maths Mondays. Every Monday, Key Stage 3 students have the opportunity to answer a Maths or Logic problem during registration with the first few correct answers receiving prizes.

STMC Competition In November, St Marylebone’s Team in the STMC Competition competed in the London West regional final. Like the original Team Challenge for Year 8 and 9 students, the competition promotes mathematical skills and thinking, along with teamwork and communication. Our Senior competition team consisted of Zhan Chen and Matthew Carolan (Year 12) and Zhi Qiao and Aseel Showman (Year 13). The team was up against some very tough competition in the London West region, including past winners of the national title. After three intense rounds of creative mathematics only one point separated first and second place, and the St Marylebone team were thrilled to discover that they had come out on top as winners of the Regional Final. This outstanding effort qualified the team as one of only 65 invited to compete in the prestigious National Final. This took place in February, with the team being joined by the other 64 finalists at the Camden Centre here in London. After working together to prepare and practise in the lead up to the final, our students again performed exceptionally well against teams that included the very best young mathematicians from across the country. The final result saw them placed 16th in the UK – an achievement deserving of much recognition and congratulations!

British Mathematics Olympiad The British Mathematics Olympiad is the follow on competition to the UKMT Senior Mathematics Challenge and is designed to be suitable only for the very highest performing students. Being invited to sit the paper is a fantastic achievement and we were thrilled that Kaiqi Zhang (Year 13) achieved this honour this year.

Another of our Year 13 students, Zhi Qiao, also took part in the competition and achieved a score of an in-credible 52/60 marks (most students usually achieve a score in single figures). This result saw him awarded a gold medal and ranked as the third highest placed student in the competition across the UK – a truly out-standing achievement. Zhi went on to compete in the second (final) round of the BMO, where the 3½ hours is spent tackling just 4 even more difficult questions. He achieved another outstanding score of 30/40, again ranking in the top 10 young mathematicians in the UK. We offer him our deserved congratulations and wish Zhi well as he continues to extend his studies in the subject.

Here’s one for you to have a go at…

Six people at a party all greet each other with a handshake. How many handshakes take place?

On 1st March, students from Years 7 to 10 took part in World Maths Day, a global education event where students from around the world are invited to unite and set a new world record for the number of maths questions correctly answered. This is a truly unique event and a fantastic way to promote numeracy where education is combined with the power of the internet to unite schools. Congratulations to all our of students who took part and managed to answer a staggering 66,364 questions correctly. Special congratulations to Keisha Sesay (Year 8) who managed to correctly answer 3,000 questions.

World Maths Day

On Friday 11th March six St Marylebone students had the privilege of visiting

the 2012 London Olympic stadium. We left school at nine forty five and got

the Jubilee line to Bond Street, getting the Central line to Stratford. At the

station we met two BBC reporters who helped us gather our information

and gave us great advice on what to ask our tour guide, who happened to

be the head Designer of the Olympic Stadium! We had an hour tour around

the site in a bus because the location was so big and could be dangerous

due to the fact it was still under construction. Jerome Frost, Head of Design,

gave us helpful information on the stadium and how it was designed to last

and help the community after the prestigious games.

After the very informative tour, we had a chance to interview him and ask him our questions. We asked him the inspiration for the architectural design and how he had planned started planning something so big? He said that it was all about the community, he didn’t want the amazing site to be abandoned after the games so he adapted his ideas to suit the communities needs adding a school and learning centre. Finally we recorded our very own answers from what we had learnt after the tour with BBC reporter Belinda.

Overall it was an amazing day, it opened our eyes to how massive the project and building construction is. We loved visiting and are so lucky to have got the chance to share this with everyone.

Charis Garside

and Kate Finn

During the half-term the ICT department ran catch up classes for the GCSE and A-Level students. The purpose of these sessions was to provide additional support to the students who had missed lessons and were behind with their coursework. We received tremendous support from parents who ensured that their children attended. These sessions were a great success as students regained their confidence in their coursework and used the time wisely to catch up with their work. This was also an excellent opportunity to provide one to one support.

The BBC News School Report project is well under way. We are very excited about the stories we have been selected to research, and the feedback from the BBC about the ideas is very positive. We have had two visits from BBC staff to support our news reporting. They have given us a good insight into the world of journalism and some very useful advice. Belinda Nimo was among our visitors, she is an ex-student of St Marylebone. The School Report groups have conducted a number of interviews including with David Ruse (Westminster’s Director of Libraries) concerning the closure of local libraries and Lynsey Ford a press officer for London Zoo to find the Zoo’s response to the stopping of free tickets for schools for entry to the Zoo.

Another interesting story picked up by the students is the reduction in Music education. So far an interview has taken place with Helienne Lindvall a professional writer and musician. We are in the process of organising another interview with Toby Perkins, the shadow minister for children and families. We are also reporting on the introduction of the English Baccalaureate, looking at the effects it will have on future students and their education. The students involved have been very fortunate and have organised an interview with Michael Gove - what a fantastic news scoop.

The filming for the Mercer’s Video Project (working with Queen Elizabeth II, Queens Park’s Primary

and Barrow Hill School) is now well underway. Previously the teachers and students involved have

taken part in camera workshops as preparation. Once the filming schedule is completed we will be

working with the schools to edit their work. The showcase afternoon is booked for 9th June in the

school theatre. ICT scholars are working with the ICT teachers in the external schools to enhance the

experience for the students.

This year’s Safer Internet Day was held on 8th February. In that week Year

7 students had a lesson informing them on how to stay safe online and

whilst using other mobile technology. A competition was also held for Key

Stage 3: the winner was Phoebe Millard (7D) and the runners-up were

Year 7 students.

Be ready to view our news (through the BBC or school website) which will go live in the afternoon

of March 24th.

We are continuing to hold events to build communication and confidence skills for College Park students.

Our afternoon ‘Speed Chat’ sessions have been very well attended. The event is similar to a speed-dating

event: desks are set up in a line and the students have three minutes to ask each other questions about their

hobbies, interests and future aspirations before they then move on to the next participant. This has been a

successful way to encourage further integration between College Park and St Marylebone students and we

are aiming to hold at least one of these sessions per half-term to encourage further communication and in-

teraction for all students.

Flora Higgins, It’s What You Don’t See With this album I have steered from the botanical and into the biological. I have collected images of beautiful sections of my own and my sister’s face, and I have also looked at my cat Teabag’s eyes and fur. I found some marvellous and intricate patterns which I realised, though they are hard to pick out, would actually really effect the colour and texture of say, an eye, as we see it from a distance. We must learn not to take the small and beautiful for granted.

Leanne, Paper Planes

This was a drawing I did at the drawing school which Miss Bletcher sent me to this week. We had a model over called Tinker, I'm not too sure how you spell her name, and we had about 15 minutes to do a pencil sketch before doing some charcoal work later on in the class.

Kitty Low, Not What It Seems If there's one thing that really gets on my nerves, it would be stereotypes. People saying, in a matter-of-fact voice: "Oh yes, she's wearing all black, so she's a goth!" or "Well, he likes school, so he's obviously a geek." What if black was just a preferred colour for that person? Or they were in mourning? And how about if he liked school more than being at home because he was unhappy at home? Or just simply enjoyed learning more about the world around him? Stereotypes are a way of categorizing people who may not want to be categorized. Every person is individual; you

should judge people by their personality, not what others group them as. Most people, at school, naturally fall into slots

or groups, such as 'The Popular Ones' or 'The Chavs' or 'The Geeks', but that doesn't mean a 'Chav' can't be friends with a

'Geek', or a "Popular One', just because the geeks are stereotyped to be dull, or without a sense of humour, or something

along those lines. People should be free to be whoever they want to be; they are who they are, such as in Lady GaGa's

new song, 'Born This Way'.

Gifted and Talented students in Years 8 and 9 have been working on blogs as part of their programme this

year. The aim of the blogging project was to enable girls to further investigate an area they were particu-

larly interested in, as well as to develop skills of self-reflection and communication. The results have been

amazing, with blogs being created on topics ranging from literature to life, and fashion to photography!

Here are some examples of students’ work:

Miss. C. Kinsella

Miss. R. Bletcher - Key Stage 3 G & T coordinator

Term 3 is the „Term of the Creative Thinker‟ at St Marylebone. In Year 7 Personal Learning and Thinking

Skills-in-Performance lessons, students are exploring what it means to be a creative thinker through the

story of The Calamity of Clueless Cassy. Cassy finds that creativity isn‟t simply about “being good at Art”;

she learns that creative thinking is about empathy, making links, finding alternative options, and solving

problems – not just in lessons, but in relationships, personal growth and many of life‟s adventures and

challenges.

One of the activities in these lessons encourages students to talk themselves into thinking more creatively,

even when this might not come naturally.

Year 8 all exercised their creative brains on Creative Thinkers Day on Tuesday 8th March. The theme for the day was “Creativity is ...” and it involved students in a carousel of activities which helped them identify and develop creative thinking and problem-solving strategies which they can use in lessons and in life. The day began with a whole year introduction with creativity consultants Dave Strudwick and Mike Beard, who

have worked with us on our Gifted and Talented programmes and on SEAL (Social and Emotional Aspects of

Learning). Then teachers in Maths, PE, Dance, ICT, History and Geography led sessions with their Year 8

classes which elicited the necessity, use, joy and fun of creative thinking techniques in their subject. Students

were each required to collate a Creative Thinker’s Toolkit in the course of the morning.

In the afternoon, the toolkit was put to the test as students worked in teams to solve, creatively, one of a

selection of brain-teasing and/or philosophical problems. For example:

Harry and William were sent by their parents to sell an equal amount of cupcakes each, worth £1 per cupcake. They were told not to eat the cupcakes they are selling, and that they should sell all of the cupcakes. At the end of the day, all cupcakes were sold, yet neither boy gained nor lost any money. What happened?

One class came up with this list of things that

“uncreative thinkers” say:

“It can’t be done.” “I can’t do it.”

“It’s not working so we’ll have to give up.” “There aren’t enough; it’s not fair.”

“This is boring”

“Why hasn’t anyone sorted this out yet?”

By contrast, this is what we felt Creative

Thinkers say:

OK, it looks hard, but let’s have

a go. There must be another way to make it work.

How can we sort this out? Let’s think about it from another point

of view.

Ms. K. Pugh - Assistant Headteacher: Personalising Learning

PLTS-in-Performance

From reading a poem to presenting an argument for debate, working on an audition or

performance piece, or simply giving a confident presentation in class! Gain a greater self-confidence when addressing an audience of 1 – 1000.

Learn elocution techniques to control, energise and project your voice confidently.

TO REGISTER YOUR INTEREST… If you are interested in your daughter receiving private lessons in elocution, speech or

Acting, or wish to find out further information about this opportunity, please email Miss F. Turner – Drama Department:

f.turner@stmarylebone.westminster.sch.uk

Who is it for? Elocution, speech and acting lessons are open to everyone and the tutor will personalise the lessons to

suit the student’s needs and area of interests.

Your voice is as unique as your finger print It is a tool that can be trained to allow you to triumph

What are Elocution, Speech and Acting lessons about? The voice is the most fundamental tool of communication. Successful expression and communication necessitate that one’s voice is clear, confident, energetic and expressive. When a voice is all of these it

becomes a positive powerful tool which communicates successfully, whether in giving a presentation in the classroom, performing on stage, or interviewing for college or university.

We are offering students the opportunity to receive personalised vocal coaching lessons and even entry

to accredited acting exams in order to gain UCAS points for university.

END OF TERM 4: Wednesday 6th April

EASTER HOLIDAY: Thursday 7th April - Monday 25th April

TERM 5: Tuesday 26th April 8.30am - Friday 27th May 3.30pm

(Bank Holidays = Friday 29th April and Monday 2nd May)

INTER TERM BREAK: Monday 30th May - Friday 3rd June

TERM 6: Monday 6th June 8.30am - Thursday 21st July 12.30pm

Dates for your diary . . .

THURSDAY 31st MARCH ‘Rule the World’: Spring Concert St Marylebone Parish Church, 7.00pm THURSDAY 5th MAY GCSE and A level Dance Exam Showcase Theatre, 6.30pm

FRIDAY 1st APRIL Young Producers Concert

Wigmore Hall, 5.30pm

THURSDAY 26th MAY Year 7 ‘Ocean’ Sharing

Theatre, 6.00pm

Term Dates