The St Marylebone CE School Specialisms Newsletter Spring 2011

The St Marylebone CE School
Specialisms Newsletter Spring 2011
A Specialist Arts, Maths, Computing and SEN College
Whole School
Musical
December 2010
Full report inside

This ship is about to set sail . . .
This year’s musical production of ‘Anything Goes’
included a cast of students from Year 7 to 13 and
was truly a whole school event. Casting auditions
took place in September and dance, drama, and
music rehearsals started in October to prepare for
the three-night show which was performed to a
packed out theatre over three nights in December.
‘Anything Goes’ tells the story of a group of passengers travelling on a luxury cruise liner from America
to England. The musical follows their antics aboard the ship and on 1st, 2nd, and 3rd December, St
Marylebone School Theatre became the setting to tell the stories of the characters on the journey. The
fantastic songs were accompanied by an orchestra live on stage, complementing the amusing storylines
which were brilliantly acted by the whole cast. Lively dances with great choreography had the toes of
the audience tapping and the production was a huge success. Well done to the entire cast of students,
especially those in the lead roles, and to the musicians, technical team, backstage helpers, and staff
who made the whole event possible!

The Performing Arts faculty was lucky enough to be successful in its bid to be part of a project led
by Creative Partnerships, the government’s flagship creative arts programme to link schools with
external arts practitioners. We are delighted to be working with the Graeae Theatre Company, the
UK’s only disabled led theatre group, based in East London. Students from Year 7 are working alongside
the Sixth Form students from College Park in a pioneering project with the SEN faculty that
pushes the boundaries of students’ perception of how the performing arts can reach out to a wider
audience.
Based on the short story of The Iron Man by Ted Hughes, students and teachers are exploring the
themes of inclusivity, the environment and performance art. Practitioners from the Graeae Theatre
Company are leading six sessions with the students during the second half of the spring term. We
have had three sessions so far and all have been hugely successful.
During the first session, the students created their own ‘sign names’, which deaf
people use as a type of shorthand to avoid spelling out names with individual letter
signs. The participants played games as part of a warm-up and then discussed the
story of The Iron Man, acting out the story in a very simple fashion. Creating their
own ‘Iron Men’ out of tinfoil allowed the students to be highly creative.
The second session saw the students learn more about theatre communication
for those audience members with visual or hearing impairments. This involved
describing a scene through words to allow the audience to picture the action.
The students also acted out the part of the farmers in The Iron Man without
words but with extra expressions to show emotion, aimed at those who may
have hearing difficulties within a theatre. This was an interesting experience
for the students who are able to fully experience theatre through both sight
and sound.
The students have been lucky enough to have a read-through of the first draft of the script that Graeae
will use for their open-air production of The Iron Man, which will be taking place in London in July.
They were also able to see the artistic designs for the physical structure for the character of the Iron Man
in the production. We will look forward to sharing more about this fantastic project with you next term!

Mrs E. Montsumi - Head of Dance
The annual Dance Show, this year entitled „A Night at the Musicals‟, took place on Wednesday 16th and Thursday 17th
February in the St Marylebone School Theatre. The diversity in dance styles presented was incredible: Jazz, Street
Dance, Break Dancing, Tap, Modern Ballet, Latin, Contemporary, Lindy Hop and more were allon display. Never before
have so many students been involved in the show: almost 170 students performed on both nights and tickets sold out a
week before the event. Performances from Marylebone Dance Company, Dance Scholars, selected Year 9 students, B-
boys and B-girls, Year 7 & 8 Dance Clubs and Westminster Junior Dance Company combined to make the show a huge
success. Well done to all of the dancers involved!
Year 9 ‘All That Jazz’
Massive congratulations to ALL year 9 students who performed for each other
in the lunchtime sharing on Friday 12th February. They all worked very hard on
their 'All That Jazz' pieces and it was great to see them all perform so well for
each other. Here are some of the students‟ own thoughts about the performance:
“Making our own dance and performing in the showing was fun and different.”
“Performing in front of the whole of Year 9 gave us an opportunity to perform with
our friends in front of our peers.”
“Being able to perform in the theatre was a very enjoyable experience.”

On Thursday 17th December the annual Festival of Readings and
Carols was held at St Marylebone Parish Church. Young Voices
performed carols in the foyer of the church as people entered and
there was a packed programme of pieces performed by many of
the school music groups. Symphony Orchestra accompanied the
carols as well as performing their own orchestral pieces; Shout
Out sang from the back of the church; and the whole of Year 7
sang ‘Gloria’ which they had been learning in their music lessons.
There were performances from Church Choir, the
Staff and Sixth Form Choir, and Chamber Choir. A
String Quartet of Sixth Form and GCSE students
played Corelli’s Christmas Concerto, conducted by
Kitty Cardoso. The readings were coordinated by
Miss Dempster and the Debating Club, and there
were also dancers and drama students performing.
The church was absolutely full and the atmosphere was fantastic. After the finale of ‘O Come All Ye Faithful’,
which was performed with a trumpet voluntary and descant from the balcony, the PTA served refreshments
in the theatre which was a lovely way to celebrate the Christmas spirit. It even snowed as we all left the
church, providing a perfect finish to the winter term. Well done to all the students and staff involved, and
thank you to the audience for joining in!
HANDEL PROJECT
St Marylebone School has been invited to take part in a music project
involving the Handel House Museum and the London Handel Festival.
The project has been offered to Choral Scholars who will be involved in creating
original vocal compositions using Handel’s opera ‘Rodelinda’ as the stimulus.
’Rodelinda’ is the main performance piece at this year’s London Handel Festival and
will be performed in March by Opera students from the Royal College of music.
The Choral Scholars have attended four after school sessions to create their new vocal
works, and their pieces will be performed by Royal College of Music students at the
Britten Theatre (RCM) after the Easter break. Details of the performance will be
posted on the Music Department blog (smsmusic.typepad.com).
Mr. P. Jones - Director of Music

Young Producers
The Young Producers project is a new initiative that has been set up this year by Wigmore Hall’s
Learning Department. The project aims to get young people involved in the planning, administration,
production, and promotion of a concert. Fifteen students from St. Marylebone Sixth Form have taken
up the challenge . . .
“The aim of the Young Producers project is to offer young people an
opportunity to devise a concert at Wigmore Hall completely under their
own terms, and further personal and professional aspirations through
involvement in project planning and engagement with professional artists
at a renowned venue.”
The students have been working alongside Julia Roderick, Learning
Producer at Wigmore Hall, having regular meetings to discuss the
event and the organisation. They are working towards producing a
concert which will be aimed at young people to inspire more
school students to attend classical music concerts. Students have
taken complete ownership of all artistic and business related issues
including liaising with artists, arranging publicity, and budgeting.
The concert the students have planned will feature Ignite, a chamber group of
professional musicians. The group will perform a variety of material for the
concert including classical pieces by Ravel and Mendelssohn as well as original
music devised especially for the Young Producers event. The performance will
also include a DJ set from DJ Etch-a-Sqratch as well as incorporating artistic
visuals. The subtitle of the concert is aptly named as ‘A Total Work Of Art’
covering all of the artistic elements which will be on display.
The students have been working hard to publicise the event: they have had an article
put in the Wood & Vale newspaper and have also been interviewed on BBC Radio 3: a
podcast of this interview can be found at www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/interact/wigmorehall-podcasts/young-producers.
There are also special flyers for the event which will be
distributed to students, parents, and staff at St Marylebone as well as in the local area.
The performance will take place on Friday 1st April at 5.30pm at the Wigmore Hall. Tickets are priced at £3
and can be bought from the Wigmore Hall Box Office on 0207 935 2141. All proceeds from the concert will
go to the Make-A-Wish Foundation, a charity which grants ‘wishes’ to children living with life threatening
illnesses, giving them the opportunity to enjoy an activity or event which they would otherwise not be
able to take part in. The Young Producers are aiming to sell out the venue in order to raise as much
money as possible for the charity.
The Young Producers project is supported by the John Lyon’s charity and the Samuel Sebba Charitable Trust.

PROM PRAISE
FOR SCHOOLS
On Tuesday 15th March over thirty members of Young Voices went to
sing at the Royal Albert Hall as part of the Prom Praise for Schools event.
Members of Young Voices (singers from Year 7 and 8) had been rehearsing for a number of weeks, both at St
Marylebone and with other schools who participated in the event. Singers from fourteen schools from across
London combined forces to create a massed choir for the event, having all learnt the songs separately. The
choir was accompanied by the All Souls’ Orchestra, which regularly plays for Prom Praise events and has been
supporting the Prom Praise for Schools performances for the past five years.
St Marylebone girls took part in the afternoon rehearsal at the Albert
Hall alongside all of the other school participants, where they sang
with the orchestra for the first time. The evening performance also
included orchestral pieces, performances from the Gospel Choir from
Twyford High School, and even some Irish dancing! The music was
interspersed with spoken performances which told the stories of
John Newton, Joshua Watson, and Angela Burdett Coutts, three
people with fantastic legacies having given their own time and effort
to create and support Church schools.
Many school groups attended the performance as well as individuals, and the songs had the audience standing
to sing as well! There were pyrotechnic fireworks around the gallery before the interval and at the Finale of the
concert the All Souls’ Orchestra performed a medley of well-known classical music melodies as an encore.
The Royal Albert Hall was filled with music and singing from all directions and
the St Marylebone girls and all the other performers thoroughly enjoyed the
performance. Well done to all involved!

Wihan Quartet
Kitty Low 8H
I found this concert very enriching, as I have never properly listened to professional
string players, and I felt that the quartet, especially in the first piece (String Quartet
No. 1 'Kreutzer Sonata' by Leos Janacek), portrayed excellently the deep emotion that
the composer intended the 'characters' in the music to feel, as they played with brilliant
vigour and enthusiasm.
The second performance, Haydn’s String Quartet Op. 33 no.2 'Joke', was my favourite of the
three, because it was the most light-hearted and upbeat. The long silences in the otherwise
textured music seemed, to me, very emphatic, as they created tension in the room as you
sat on the edge of your seat wondering, "Is it the end of the piece? Or is it right in the middle?"
(hence the title 'Joke'). The bounciness and lightness of the first violin was maintained
throughout the whole performance.
The third and final piece, String Quartet in A Flat, Op. 105 no.14 by Antonin Dvorak, was
the most solemn, but arguably the most impressive, as the musicians managed to coincide
their long, drawn-out notes perfectly with one another; there was never a 'blip'. It was quite
sorrowful, being in a minor key, but brilliantly performed.
All in all, I am very grateful to have been given this opportunity and would recommend
the Wihan Quartet to anyone who was in the least bit doubtful! Thank you very much
for giving us the opportunity to go and see the Wihan Quartet at Blandford Street!
This visit by the Wihan Quartet of Prague was sponsored by the CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust.
Marylebone Dance Company
A huge well done to Marylebone Dance Company
who performed at the prestigious SSAT Arts College
Conference in January. The conference took place in
Warwick over two days and was attended by teachers
and arts practitioners from across the country.
The standard of the company’s performance was excellent
and a tribute to their determination, having boarded a train to
Warwick at 6am! A particular thank you and well done to
Grace Benson in Year 13 who choreographed two of the
pieces .

MATHS
Karen Martin Scholarship
The Karen Martin Scholarship is an award of £1000 given to a current Year 12 student who demonstrates a
genuine interest in pursuing a career in Engineering. Applicants had to provide a written statement as well as
present their ideas about an area of Engineering of particular interest to them to a ‘Dragon’s Den’ style
panel.
The standard of applications this year was very high and six particularly talented students were short-listed
to face the panel. While all showed themselves to be excellent candidates, two individuals shone through.
Deciding between the final two presented the interviewing panel with a more difficult decision than they
could have imagined. In the end there was no way to resolve the deadlock other than to take the highly unusual
decision to award two scholarships.
Congratulations go to all the applicants and in particular, to the two worthy winners,
Maggie Chlon and Sarah MacGuire. Maggie is hoping her sixth form studies in Maths,
Further Maths, Physics and Chemistry will help her fulfil her ambitions to pursue further
study in Quantum Mechanics. Sarah is hoping her sixth form subject choices of Maths,
Further Maths, Physics, Chemistry and Biology will help her enter her chosen field in Bio
-Medical Engineering.
UKMT Individual Challenge
Every year our top students take part in the UK Mathematics Trust Individual Challenge. These involve 25
Maths based problem solving questions. The results are in for the Intermediate Challenge (Years 9, 10 and
11) where our students received a total of 44 awards, that’s more than half of the students entered!
Particular congratulations go to Eva Barnett (Year 9), Nermin Hayek (Year 10) and Imogen Foster (Year 11)
for getting the highest marks in their respective year groups.
UKMT Team Challenge
In March, four of our best Key Stage 3 Mathematicians travelled to the City
of London School to take part in the UK Mathematics Trust Team Challenge
Regional Finals. The competition promotes mathematical dexterity, team
working, and communication skills, giving pupils the opportunity to compete
against pupils from other schools. Congratulations to Kitty Low and
Cherry Elliott-Millar (Year 8) and Maree Petsoglou and Rachel Sfeir (Year 9)
who came 8 th in their regional final out of nearly 30 teams.
“The Team Mathematics Challenge was an extremely enjoyable experience.
It consisted of four different challenges, each of varying difficulty.
Overall, we were extremely pleased with our position of 8 th ”.
Rachel Sfeir and Maree Petsoglou
To finish off Term 3 with a bang, Year 9 Galois and Pythagoras classes combined for a Maths Treasure
Hunt with Mr Le Fanu and Dr Baxandall in the school courtyard. Rushing around to solve mathematical
money problems involving Ogitanian ogs and disentangling the intricacies of Maths Men provided just
what was needed to warm everyone on a cold February afternoon.
Winners of the hunt were Sara Fernandez and Susie Bowman of Pythagoras class - well done!
A sample question: In my purse I have five
coins: 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p and 20p. How many
different sums of money can I make with
these coins?

STMC Competition
In November, St Marylebone’s Team in the STMC Competition competed in the London West regional final.
Like the original Team Challenge for Year 8 and 9 students, the competition promotes mathematical skills
and thinking, along with teamwork and communication. Our Senior competition team consisted of Zhan
Chen and Matthew Carolan (Year 12) and Zhi Qiao and Aseel Showman (Year 13). The team was up against
some very tough competition in the London West region, including past winners of the national title. After
three intense rounds of creative mathematics only one point separated first and second place, and the St
Marylebone team were thrilled to discover that they had come out on top as winners of the Regional Final.
This outstanding effort qualified the team as one of only 65 invited to compete in the prestigious National
Final. This took place in February, with the team being joined by the other 64 finalists at the Camden Centre
here in London. After working together to prepare and practise in the lead up to the final, our students again
performed exceptionally well against teams that included the very best young mathematicians from across
the country. The final result saw them placed 16 th in the UK – an achievement deserving of much recognition
and congratulations!
British Mathematics Olympiad
The British Mathematics Olympiad is the follow on competition to the UKMT Senior Mathematics Challenge
and is designed to be suitable only for the very highest performing students. Being invited to sit the paper is
a fantastic achievement and we were thrilled that Kaiqi Zhang (Year 13) achieved this honour this year.
Another of our Year 13 students, Zhi Qiao, also took part in the competition and achieved a score of an incredible
52/60 marks (most students usually achieve a score in single figures). This result saw him awarded a
gold medal and ranked as the third highest placed student in the competition across the UK – a truly outstanding
achievement. Zhi went on to compete in the second (final) round of the BMO, where the 3½ hours
is spent tackling just 4 even more difficult questions. He achieved another outstanding score of 30/40, again
ranking in the top 10 young mathematicians in the UK. We offer him our deserved congratulations and wish
Zhi well as he continues to extend his studies in the subject.
World Maths
Day
On 1 st March, students from Years 7 to 10 took part in World Maths Day, a
global education event where students from around the world are invited to
unite and set a new world record for the number of maths questions correctly
answered. This is a truly unique event and a fantastic way to promote numeracy
where education is combined with the power of the internet to unite schools.
Congratulations to all our of students who took part and managed to answer a
staggering 66,364 questions correctly. Special congratulations to Keisha Sesay
(Year 8) who managed to correctly answer 3,000 questions.
Maths Mondays
The St. Marylebone Making Maths Matter (M 3 ) Initiative is well underway with the launch of
Maths Mondays. Every Monday, Key Stage 3 students have the opportunity to answer a Maths
or Logic problem during registration with the first few correct answers receiving prizes.
Here’s one for you to have a go at…
Six people at a party all greet each other with a handshake. How many handshakes take place?

Charis Garside
and Kate Finn
On Friday 11 th March six St Marylebone students had the privilege of visiting
the 2012 London Olympic stadium. We left school at nine forty five and got
the Jubilee line to Bond Street, getting the Central line to Stratford. At the
station we met two BBC reporters who helped us gather our information
and gave us great advice on what to ask our tour guide, who happened to
be the head Designer of the Olympic Stadium! We had an hour tour around
the site in a bus because the location was so big and could be dangerous
due to the fact it was still under construction. Jerome Frost, Head of Design,
gave us helpful information on the stadium and how it was designed to last
and help the community after the prestigious games.
After the very informative tour, we had a chance to interview him and ask him
our questions. We asked him the inspiration for the architectural design and
how he had planned started planning something so big? He said that it was all
about the community, he didn’t want the amazing site to be abandoned after
the games so he adapted his ideas to suit the communities needs adding a
school and learning centre. Finally we recorded our very own answers from
what we had learnt after the tour with BBC reporter Belinda.
Overall it was an amazing day, it opened our eyes to how massive the project and
building construction is. We loved visiting and are so lucky to have got the chance
to share this with everyone.

The BBC News School Report project is well under way. We are very excited about the stories we
have been selected to research, and the feedback from the BBC about the ideas is very positive.
We have had two visits from BBC staff to support our news reporting. They have given us a good
insight into the world of journalism and some very useful advice. Belinda Nimo was among our
visitors, she is an ex-student of St Marylebone.
The School Report groups have conducted a number of interviews including with David Ruse
(Westminster’s Director of Libraries) concerning the closure of local libraries and Lynsey Ford a
press officer for London Zoo to find the Zoo’s response to the stopping of free tickets for schools
for entry to the Zoo.
Another interesting story picked up by the students is the reduction in
Music education. So far an interview has taken place with Helienne
Lindvall a professional writer and musician. We are in the process of
organising another interview with Toby Perkins, the shadow minister for
children and families.
We are also reporting on the introduction of the English Baccalaureate,
looking at the effects it will have on future students and their education.
The students involved have been very fortunate and have organised an
interview with Michael Gove - what a fantastic news scoop.
Be ready to view our news (through the BBC or school website) which will go live in the afternoon
of March 24th.
The filming for the Mercer’s Video Project (working with Queen Elizabeth II, Queens Park’s Primary
and Barrow Hill School) is now well underway. Previously the teachers and students involved have
taken part in camera workshops as preparation. Once the filming schedule is completed we will be
working with the schools to edit their work. The showcase afternoon is booked for 9 th June in the
school theatre. ICT scholars are working with the ICT teachers in the external schools to enhance the
experience for the students.
This year’s Safer Internet Day was held on 8 th February. In that week Year
7 students had a lesson informing them on how to stay safe online and
whilst using other mobile technology. A competition was also held for Key
Stage 3: the winner was Phoebe Millard (7D) and the runners-up were
Year 7 students.
During the half-term the ICT department ran catch up classes for the GCSE and A-Level students.
The purpose of these sessions was to provide additional support to the students who had missed
lessons and were behind with their coursework. We received tremendous support from parents who
ensured that their children attended. These sessions were a great success as students regained
their confidence in their coursework and used the time wisely to catch up with their work. This was
also an excellent opportunity to provide one to one support.

We are continuing to hold events to build communication and confidence skills for College Park students.
Our afternoon ‘Speed Chat’ sessions have been very well attended. The event is similar to a speed-dating
event: desks are set up in a line and the students have three minutes to ask each other questions about their
hobbies, interests and future aspirations before they then move on to the next participant. This has been a
successful way to encourage further integration between College Park and St Marylebone students and we
are aiming to hold at least one of these sessions per half-term to encourage further communication and interaction
for all students.
Miss. C. Kinsella
Gifted and Talented students in Years 8 and 9 have been working on blogs as part of their programme this
year. The aim of the blogging project was to enable girls to further investigate an area they were particularly
interested in, as well as to develop skills of self-reflection and communication. The results have been
amazing, with blogs being created on topics ranging from literature to life, and fashion to photography!
Here are some examples of students’ work:
Flora Higgins, It’s What You Don’t See
With this album I have steered from the botanical and into the biological. I have collected
images of beautiful sections of my own and my sister’s face, and I have also looked at my cat
Teabag’s eyes and fur. I found some marvellous and intricate patterns which I realised,
though they are hard to pick out, would actually really effect the colour and texture of say,
an eye, as we see it from a distance. We must learn not to take the small and beautiful for
granted.
Leanne, Paper Planes
This was a drawing I did at the drawing school which Miss Bletcher sent me to this
week. We had a model over called Tinker, I'm not too sure how you spell her name,
and we had about 15 minutes to do a pencil sketch before doing some charcoal work
later on in the class.
Kitty Low, Not What It Seems
If there's one thing that really gets on my nerves, it would be stereotypes. People saying, in a matter-of-fact voice:
"Oh yes, she's wearing all black, so she's a goth!" or "Well, he likes school, so he's obviously a geek."
What if black was just a preferred colour for that person? Or they were in mourning? And how about if he liked school
more than being at home because he was unhappy at home? Or just simply enjoyed learning more about the world
around him?
Stereotypes are a way of categorizing people who may not want to be categorized. Every person is individual; you
should judge people by their personality, not what others group them as. Most people, at school, naturally fall into slots
or groups, such as 'The Popular Ones' or 'The Chavs' or 'The Geeks', but that doesn't mean a 'Chav' can't be friends with a
'Geek', or a "Popular One', just because the geeks are stereotyped to be dull, or without a sense of humour, or something
along those lines. People should be free to be whoever they want to be; they are who they are, such as in Lady GaGa's
new song, 'Born This Way'.
Miss. R. Bletcher - Key Stage 3 G & T coordinator

Term 3 is the „Term of the Creative Thinker‟ at St Marylebone. In Year 7 Personal Learning and Thinking
Skills-in-Performance lessons, students are exploring what it means to be a creative thinker through the
story of The Calamity of Clueless Cassy. Cassy finds that creativity isn‟t simply about “being good at Art”;
she learns that creative thinking is about empathy, making links, finding alternative options, and solving
problems – not just in lessons, but in relationships, personal growth and many of life‟s adventures and
challenges.
One of the activities in these lessons encourages students to talk themselves into thinking more creatively,
even when this might not come naturally.
One class came up with this list of things that
“uncreative thinkers” say:
“It can’t be done.”
“I can’t do it.”
“It’s not working so we’ll have to give up.”
“There aren’t enough; it’s not fair.”
“This is boring”
“Why hasn’t anyone sorted this out yet?”
PLTS-in-Performance
By contrast, this is what we felt Creative
Thinkers say:
OK, it looks hard, but let’s have
a go.
There must be another way to make it work.
How can we sort this out?
Let’s think about it from another point
of view.
Year 8 all exercised their creative brains on Creative Thinkers Day on Tuesday 8 th March. The theme for the day
was “Creativity is ...” and it involved students in a carousel of activities which helped them identify and develop
creative thinking and problem-solving strategies which they can use in lessons and in life.
The day began with a whole year introduction with creativity consultants Dave Strudwick and Mike Beard, who
have worked with us on our Gifted and Talented programmes and on SEAL (Social and Emotional Aspects of
Learning). Then teachers in Maths, PE, Dance, ICT, History and Geography led sessions with their Year 8
classes which elicited the necessity, use, joy and fun of creative thinking techniques in their subject. Students
were each required to collate a Creative Thinker’s Toolkit in the course of the morning.
In the afternoon, the toolkit was put to the test as students worked in teams to solve, creatively, one of a
selection of brain-teasing and/or philosophical problems. For example:
Harry and William were sent by their parents to sell an equal amount of cupcakes
each, worth £1 per cupcake. They were told not to eat the cupcakes they are selling,
and that they should sell all of the cupcakes. At the end of the day, all cupcakes
were sold, yet neither boy gained nor lost any money.
What happened?
Ms. K. Pugh - Assistant Headteacher: Personalising Learning

Your voice is as unique as your finger print
It is a tool that can be trained to allow you to triumph
What are Elocution, Speech and Acting lessons about?
The voice is the most fundamental tool of communication. Successful expression and communication
necessitate that one’s voice is clear, confident, energetic and expressive. When a voice is all of these it
becomes a positive powerful tool which communicates successfully, whether in giving a presentation in
the classroom, performing on stage, or interviewing for college or university.
We are offering students the opportunity to receive personalised vocal coaching lessons and even entry
to accredited acting exams in order to gain UCAS points for university.
Who is it for?
Elocution, speech and acting lessons are open to everyone and the tutor will personalise the lessons to
suit the student’s needs and area of interests.
From reading a poem to presenting an argument for debate, working on an audition or
performance piece, or simply giving a confident presentation in class!
Gain a greater self-confidence when addressing an audience of 1 – 1000.
Learn elocution techniques to control, energise and project your voice confidently.
TO REGISTER YOUR INTEREST…
If you are interested in your daughter receiving private lessons in elocution, speech or
Acting, or wish to find out further information about this opportunity,
please email Miss F. Turner – Drama Department:
f.turner@stmarylebone.westminster.sch.uk
Dates for your diary . . .
THURSDAY 31st MARCH
‘Rule the World’: Spring Concert
St Marylebone Parish Church, 7.00pm
THURSDAY 5th MAY
GCSE and A level Dance Exam Showcase
Theatre, 6.30pm
FRIDAY 1st APRIL
Young Producers Concert
Wigmore Hall, 5.30pm
THURSDAY 26th MAY
Year 7 ‘Ocean’ Sharing
Theatre, 6.00pm
Term Dates
END OF TERM 4: Wednesday 6th April
EASTER HOLIDAY: Thursday 7th April - Monday 25th April
TERM 5: Tuesday 26th April 8.30am - Friday 27th May 3.30pm
(Bank Holidays = Friday 29th April and Monday 2nd May)
INTER TERM BREAK: Monday 30th May - Friday 3rd June
TERM 6: Monday 6th June 8.30am - Thursday 21st July 12.30pm