Newsletter

October 2016

Current Dates For Your DiarySat 23rd October – last CS before half termThurs 27th & Sat 29th October – CS closed

Thurs 3rd and Sat 5th November – CS reopensN.B. All lessons at Britwell Road Church on

Sat 12th November.Sat 26th Nov, 11.30am – Intermediate play (please

see drama section overleaf)Sat 10th and Thurs 15th Dec – last CS classes

before ChristmasThurs 5th and Sat 7th January – CS reopens

A CENTRESTAGE Baby!As many of you will know, Simon

Garrington, teacher at CENTRESTAGE on Saturdays, Thursdays and at our

primary schools, had his first baby on Wednesday 28th September! Erin Rose Garrington is absolutely beautiful and

both mummy and baby are doing extremely well. We are delighted for

the new parents!

PCertLam Success!We are so proud of former student

Gunjan Sain who has just passed her LAMDA PCertLam with an outstanding Distinction! Gunjan is the first to pass

this incredibly demanding diploma with us and we are so pleased for her!

Gunjan had been a pupil of CENTRESTAGE for 10 years before

moving on to King’s College London to study medicine. A Note from Gunjan

“Performing has always been such a huge part of my life and the people at

CENTRESTAGE have helped me to hone every area of that skill. I am so proud to have been able to complete this journey with them and I'll miss seeing them so

much. The skills I have learnt here have allowed me to succeed during interviews

and clinical practice whilst I work towards my degree in Medicine. My

confidence has increased along with my ability to perform and I owe it all to

these guys.”

Newsletter

October 2016

CENTRESTAGE Christmas Hoodies and Polos

Our exciting hoodies and polos will be available to order from after half term. Please look out for your order form letters and emails!

What Have We Been Doing in Drama?We are continuing to have so much fun in our drama lessons. All classes have been working hard through creative schemes and their imaginations are fantastic!Juniors: Juniors have been enjoying workshops on the theme of ‘space’. They have been travelling to lots of different planets, meeting aliens, and even rescued an astronaut, John Smith, who was crashed on Mars!Intermediate: Intermediates have been working on a fantastic spooky play! They are hoping to perform this to parents at 11.30am on Saturday 26th November. We hope the group are excited to show off their hard work and to dress up one last time in Halloween costumes!Year 7 and 8: Year 7 and 8 have been working through some scary schemes of work, ready for Halloween! Their work has included physical theatre, soundscapes and mime techniques which are advanced for their age. We have been extremely proud of what they have produced and impressed by their imaginations!Year 9 and 10: Year 9and 10 have been creating their own Murder Mystery! Unlike any other Murder Mystery we have created before, this one takes place in a theatre company during their rehearsals of ‘Macbeth’, when lead actress, Crystal is mysteriously found dead backstage… Exact dates of this performance will be confirmed soon.Upstage: Upstage have been exploring lots of different texts recently, searching for their 2017 production. They have been workshopping extracts from ‘A Mother’s Voice’, ‘Blood Wedding’, ‘Second Person Narrative’ and ‘Teechers’. Each text has been extremely different and fun to work with. We hope to have a final decision soon!

What Have We Been Doing In Speech?

In our Speech classes, work has very successfully started for the upcoming Trinity Choral Speaking exams. In these exams, each group will present a number of pieces, depending on their age and grade. These may be poems, extracts from a book, and acting pieces for the older years. We have found these exams to be very popular and a lot of fun for all the students involved. As last year, these exams are scheduled to be in late January. Exact dates, times, prices and venue of these exams will be confirmed soon. All teachers will be asking the pupils to learn certain pieces over half term. The students should know which pieces these are and we are grateful for your support in this. NB Please be aware that Junior Speech children will not be entered for a Choral Speaking Exam.

Acting ClassesWe have been absolutely delighted with the actors in all our Thursday Acting Classes. Their work is really coming on. Please be aware that examinations for Grades 4, 5 and 7 will be coming up soon! The Birmingham Public dates are in mid-December. Please look out for letters and emails about this.

A Note from Rebekah

I hope that the new school year has started well for you all. CENTRESTAGE is having a busy term as we are once again running the school play at Bishop Vesey’s, having received 4th place in Birmingham for our very first play last year ‘Two’. Pretty good for our first go. We have also started LAMDA lessons at Bishop Walsh. We seem to have a special affinity with all schools with ‘Bishop’ in the name! Ella has taken charge of teaching in the primary schools this year, and has recitals planned in each of them between now and January. With all that, no one could ever say CENTRESTAGE was boring! We hope you and your families have a wonderful half term holiday! Rebekah