ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Music, Drama, Art and Sport


Music, drama and art can be part of a girl’s timetable throughout her time at College. However, a great deal of extra-curricular activity also takes place in these areas and in sport too.


Music


Music or singing lessons take place in a girl’s study periods, at lunch time, during Prayers, or after school. They are taught by 50 full and part- time staff, many of them highly accomplished performers. The girls often prepare for the grade exams of the Associated Board. About fifty girls take grade 7 or 8 each year and about 70% achieve a merit or a distinction.


College has two symphony orchestras, two string orchestras, several wind ensembles and a symphonic wind band. Fifteen chamber groups have weekly coaching. There is a jazz band and a number of rock groups.


There is a well-equipped CD library and a music technology room where girls can compose and print their own work. Sometimes this is played in Prayers; other girls are always particularly interested to hear compositions written by their friends.


Girls of all abilities, from the gifted student about to go to music college to the girl who has just started an instrument, will find encouragement to play in public. Many girls play in the Cheltenham Competitive Festival each May. There are several choirs and the College Choir sings each week in Prayers, giving different girls the opportunity to sing a solo.


Master-classes are held regularly and the choir has travelled abroad in Europe, visiting Austria and Italy several times.


Drama


Drama is organised in three different ways. There is taught drama for girls in the first two years at College, as well as private drama lessons and there are numerous College and house productions. Theatre Studies is a popular subject choice at both GCSE and A level.


Girls perform a wide variety of plays and musicals from all years at College. Older girls have taken productions to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe – to much critical acclaim in recent years.


The Drama facilities are available to all girls. The wardrobe, lighting, sound box and make-up areas are well resourced. Indeed, we have a very large collection of clothing, much of it donated by parents, which is used by girls at every opportunity!


Our beautiful new Parabola Arts Centre comprises a contemporary 300-seat auditorium linked to a beautifully restored Regency House incorporating classrooms and exhibition space. Also used by the local Festivals, the Parabola Arts Centre has become a popular venue for the wider community.


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