Thursday, December 21, 2006
Stanley Tech Christmas Panto!
The theatre department were approached by Emilie Brothers, Head of Drama at Stanley Technical High School, Croydon to support her Christmas Show. This support came in the form of Year 13 theatre students working as assistant directors/workshop leaders alongside Emilie in the preparation and rehearsal of this their show.
The piece was a pantomime with a social conscience exploring ‘green’ issues within the genre and style of pantomime.
The first week of the partnership involved the student from Stanley Tech attending a workshop at The Brit School led by Simon Stephens and Imogen Brodie of the theatre department supported by a number of year 13 theatre students.
Over the next five weeks the Brit School students supported the Stanley rehearsals every Friday afternoon culminating in the performance of the show on Wednesday 13th December at St Mary Magdalene’s Church in Addiscombe.
The relationship with Stanley and the drama department particularly, will hopefully continue and develop, initially with the attendance of the Stanley students at performances and workshops during the Brit School Theatre department’s Common Ground season.
The piece was a pantomime with a social conscience exploring ‘green’ issues within the genre and style of pantomime.
The first week of the partnership involved the student from Stanley Tech attending a workshop at The Brit School led by Simon Stephens and Imogen Brodie of the theatre department supported by a number of year 13 theatre students.
Over the next five weeks the Brit School students supported the Stanley rehearsals every Friday afternoon culminating in the performance of the show on Wednesday 13th December at St Mary Magdalene’s Church in Addiscombe.
The relationship with Stanley and the drama department particularly, will hopefully continue and develop, initially with the attendance of the Stanley students at performances and workshops during the Brit School Theatre department’s Common Ground season.
Friday, December 15, 2006
BRIT Visual Arts and Norbury Manor B & E College Collaboration
This exciting collaborative project focused on sharing the skills of the teachers involved, student mentoring and the fusion of the traditional and digital visual arts curriculum. Year 11 students from both schools joined to experience workshops in pinhole and digital photography, stop frame animation and then rotascoping. So far the students have had the first two workshops and will experience the third in January. This is also part of a Lead Practitioner scheme that is Lead by the Director of the Visual Arts at the BRIT School who has presented about this work to Head Teachers in Croydon for the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT).
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Welcome to the Leading edge News
The BRIT School has a number of 'leading edge' projects running in and out of the school. This is an innovatory program that may influence curriculum development in the future
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