Welcome to the Expressive Arts Faculty home page

The Expressive Arts faculty comprises the Arts, Music and Drama departments.

For full information on these departments please follow the links below:

The Arts

Music, art and drama have a high profile in the school offering a wide variety of extra-curricular activities to support and enhance the students’ experience. In recent large-scale musical productions such as Cabaret and Grease, the Expressive Arts departments have combined to stage Christmas shows for packed houses with the highest production values available to any school.
A drama studio and the latest state-of-the-art dance studio provide venues for a range of smaller scale productions throughout the year. A combination of local and national theatre trips and in-school performances by visiting theatre companies offer enrichment for all students.
The art department mounts two exhibitions a year, a vibrant testament to the broad range of media open to our students and the fruit of regular visits to galleries and exhibitions. After-school clubs provide opportunities for sustained creative work.
The opportunities provided by the inexhaustible Music department ensure that every student with any kind of musical interest can rehearse and perform their work. The Concert Band, Swing Band, String Orchestras, two Vocal Harmony groups and a variety of pop bands and ensembles rehearse at lunchtimes and after school, mounting regular concerts both in school and in the locality.
The excellent resources of a Music Technology suite at Leyes Lane and a separate suite of rooms at Castle supplement two further music rooms and a number of practice rooms.