Norwood Visit

The school entertained two visitors recently from Norwood school. Emma Thurstan, head of the faculty of Visual Art and Design and Ali Cowley from the art department. The faculty encompasses both Art and Technology and Emma and Ali wanted to gain a better idea of how things work at the BRIT school in the Technical Theatre Arts and Technology departments. They were keen to visit and look into ways of further improving their technology offer with particular reference to set and costume design.After a tour of the departments and talks with some of our students they enjoyed a performance of one of the Common Ground plays from the Theatre department in the Obie theatre. We now hope to discuss ideas for some collaborative work and also to develop stronger links between our departments at the the BRIT and Norwood.
And a word from Emma......... "We were both very inspired and both enjoyed talking to the set production students who we found to be so committed, enthusiastic and passionate about their course. Please can you pass on our thanks to the students. The performance was also really enjoyable to watch".

Fruity Festivities on BRIT FM

This Christmas was heralded in to the sound of the Pineapple club back on the airwaves on BRIT FM. This is part of an ongoing project initiated by media Leading Edge manager Jon Preston. Senior citizen's from the Pineapple club teamed up with students from another ongoing Leading Edge radio project from Saint Joseph's school in Beulah Hill to give us the Family Christmas show. Saint Joseph's is an all boys catholic school and the students that have been coming into the BRIT school to work on the project are all SENCO recommendations. The senior citizens from the Pineapple project are all from the local Afro Caribbean community and they were able to team up with the St Joseph's students to pass on the skills they have picked up running previous Pineapple club shows. It is a sign of the impact of the project that not only have St Joseph's remarked on the behavioural improvement of these students but they have now embarked on a similar project of their own involving some of their local senior citizens.