Performing Arts
Music and Drama are available to study at A Level, and many Sixth Form pupils continue their love of these subjects to complement other academic study through co-curricular options and the termly House and School wide performances. The school welcomes and actively encourages involvement from all pupils, from beginners to those pupils wanting to develop and hone their skills.
Every year, a number of pupils chooses to take their enjoyment and expertise in the Performing Arts further. In recent time, pupils have gone on to study at The Royal Northern College of Music, Gloucester Cathedral or to specialise in Creative Writing, Drama and Theatre Studies.
We believe that it teaches confidence, collaboration, communication and co-operation. A great variety of Music, Drama and Dance is available to all students throughout the year groups.
The school’s emphasis on the creative and Performing Arts enables the pupils to participate and achieve notable success in Art, Music, Design Technology and in thought-provoking Drama productions such as ‘Coram Boy’.
ISI Report, March 2017
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Performing Arts News
Curtain Raiser: Table for Thirteen
This year’s Curtain Raiser production kicked off the dramatic year with an absolute triumph. OL Charlie Cooper’s Table for Thirteen (winner of the 2016 Bancroft One Act Playwriting competition) is a sharp, laugh-out-loud comedy, which can be summed up in three words: witty, engaging, (and surprisingly) thought-provoking. The chemistry between the actors was the engine of […]
Lower Sixth Play – Amadeus, by Peter Shaffer
Review by Lower Sixth pupil, Rafe C, with contributions from Lucy M and Poppy G The Lower Sixth’s production of Amadeus made for a vibrant and striking take on this classic drama. The secrecy and scandal of high society in 18th Century Vienna was evoked as whispers of ‘Salieri’ echoed through the Theatre as the play began. Filled with life and humour from the start, upheld […]
Junior Concert 2026
On 18 May, we were treated to an enjoyable and varied Junior Concert featuring an impressive range of performers from the Third and Fourth Forms. Sinfonia, directed by Miss Emilie Harlow, opened the evening with two entertaining orchestral works. Johann Strauss’s Radetsky March provided a lively start, followed by a medley of tunes from the popular musical Wicked, […]