All the world’s a stage.
William Shakespeare
Through our exciting and challenging Drama and Dance curriculum, we aim to nurture artistic and creative talent in all our pupils and instil in them a lifelong love of theatre. All pupils from Form 1 (Year 7) to Form 3 (Year 9) study Dance as part of a programme of Drama and Dance lessons, encouraging them to develop their movement, performance skills and creativity.
In Form 4 (Year 10) students can choose to study GCSE Dance, where they learn about performance, choreography and dance appreciation in a more formal setting.
Post-16 (Sixth Form) students have the option of studying either Drama and Theatre at A-level or Theatre in the IB Diploma without having studied Drama at GCSE.
Our purpose-built dance studio, The Courtyard, provides a fantastic venue for our in-house dance specialists to teach all types of movement and dance styles, including ballet, contemporary, hip hop, jazz and tap. All Lower School pupils perform in a Dance and Drama Showcase to demonstrate and celebrate their achievements.
In addition to our dance curriculum lessons for pupils from Form 1 (Year 7) to Form 3 (Year 9), we offer extremely popular free weekly classes held on Wednesday evenings, which are open to all ages. In addition to the Lower School Drama and Dance Showcases, pupils of all ages have the opportunity to demonstrate and celebrate their achievements with two annual dance showcases – the first held at the end of the Winter Term and the second held at the end of the academic year.