A-Level Music student, Grace Walker, was able to hit all the right notes in her recent interview with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland after being awarded a scholarship.
One student has good reason to blow their own trumpet this term about their achievement, although they won’t be doing so because their instrument of choice is the euphonium. Hal Walker, who came to the Sixth Form College from Sandon High School and currently studies AS English Language, History, Religious Studies and Music, has earned himself a place in the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain.
Our budding Performance Studies students continued their great work in the community with another performance, this time at a retirement home in Kidsgrove. AS and A2 students took to the stage to perform A Northern Nativity , the Stoke-on-Trent themed pantomime penned by tutor Emma Stanway which was also performed by our staff before the Christmas break.
Students from BTEC Performing Arts welcomed a special guest this week who ran a workshop in break dancing to help students devise their own routines.
For students all over the country, last week’s half term meant a week of private study and relaxation. However students from AS Performance Studies took the opportunity to gain some practical experience by volunteering at the Trentham Monkey Forest for a week of spooky Halloween related activities for young children.
Some students, when they return to pay us a visit after years out in the big wide world, are instantly recognisable – Peter Cliff is one of those students.
Four of our AS Performing Arts students have set up their own miniature ‘Touring Theatre Company’ as part of a work experience programme at the college called ‘The Live Link Project’.
On 21st April 2010, right at the heart of the election frenzy amid the ‘Clegg Mania’- The Sixth Form College Forum celebrated the launch of the new independent Sixth Form College sector at the Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre, Westminster.
On Friday, AS and A2 Dance students were treated to a very unique masterclass in the Doris Robinson Theatre, as staff and students from William Morris Sixth Form College joined the class to choreograph a dance piece.
A Level Dance Students from the City of Stoke on Trent Sixth Form College
“Do Stoke Proud!” At this year’s National Dance Teachers Association Conference.