A-Level Drama Bridging Fortnight
A-Level drama and theatre studies so far have been very insightful towards the actual courses we will be studying in September. The sixth form bridging fornite gave us a small...
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A-Level drama and theatre studies so far have been very insightful towards the actual courses we will be studying in September. The sixth form bridging fornite gave us a small...
Posted by Greg Knowles
As a teacher who has been teaching for the best part of two decades, I can quite confidently say the current year has been the toughest for me. I’m pretty sure I’m not...
Posted by Greg Knowles
It was inspiring to start another week at Bushey Meads School with a continued focus on sharing best practice. This week Head of Faculty for Performing and Visual Arts Mr Knowles...
Posted by Greg Knowles
Drama has its challenges for remote learning. A subject that traditionally relies on extensive group work and plenty of close interaction was always going to provide us with...
Posted by Greg Knowles
Over the last two weeks we have been busy auditioning students for our exciting school production this year – School Of Rock!!!. To date we have auditioned years 7 and 8. By...
Posted by Greg Knowles
This week would have seen our more able drama students take part in the annual Bushey Meads Outdoor Shakespeare production supported by a range of artists from across the arts...
Posted by Greg Knowles
Usually at this time of year in the arts faculty we would be finishing off end of year assessments; moderating the high quality GCSE and A-level art work and finalising...
Posted by Greg Knowles
Lockdown has been a trying experience for us all in many ways, but watching ‘College Behind Bars’ (BBC TV) might make you look at lockdown very differently. The programme was...
Posted by Greg Knowles
During lockdown the Arts faculty student leaders have come up with a series of arts challenges for all students and staff to complete. Even though the challenges have only been...
Posted by Greg Knowles
At this point in our year 8 drama curriculum our students would usually be creating plays to communicate the problems with social media – cyberbullying, lower social skills,...
Posted by Greg Knowles
A-Level drama and theatre studies so far have been very insightful towards the actual courses we will be studying in September. The sixth form bridging fornite gave us a small snippet of what the students will be facing once we have started. So far, we have studied plays like “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, a play written by Dale Wasserman based on the film of the same name and “Bouncers”, a play by John Godber. We have experimented with a variety of different props and scripts, and overall have bonded very closely as a class already.
The whole class found themselves becoming very attached to both scripts when given snippets to act out in front of peers, and adapted to them well with the minimal knowledge they already had. I am personally enjoying A Level drama very much, enduring both the practical and theory sides. So far the scripts have been entertaining to act out and I hope to discover more exciting plays in the future!
by Simran Sharma (11S) Arts faculty journalist
The theme of the Week was The National Health Service’, as the official launch took place on the 5th July 1948. Embedded within this theme, as part of Aspects of health, ...
Just before the February half term, we celebrated the creative arts here at BMS which you can read about more extensively in Miss. Dolan’s article in last week’s...