practical and performance skills based on issues, themes and techniques. Including evacuation, the plague, myths and legends and teenage pregnancy.Currently in years 10 and 11, students are studying a GCSE in Drama or a BTEC Performing Arts: Acting. Both of these courses involve learning how to create and perform original work and explore the work of playwrights.
For Post 16 students we currently offer a BTEC National Performing Arts: Acting Qualification. This vocational course involves students creating and performing a variety of works to a range of audiences such as peers and local junior schools. The nature of the course and the skills that the students acquire and develop act as the perfect foundation for students to enter both work and university
As a department we also organise a range of projects that offer students the opportunity to work with the professionals and showcase their work at professional local venues. These projects have included: The Shakespeare Schools Festival (a national project), Walsall Schools W-Factor, Branded (a performance and workshop by a local school) and the REP (performances, workshops and backstage tour).
All students are also offered the opportunity to take part in annual extra-curricular performances in recent years include Cinderella The Panto, A Christmas Tale, Little Shop of Horrors and Oliver!
his year we are looking forward to starting staff and student pantomime “Jack and the Beanstalk” and the college production of Bugsy Malone. |
