We are looking for an academic senior school with very strong drama provision for DS (currently Y5) - ideally a school that values students talented at performing arts and with a history of supporting those who want to pursue drama degrees post-sixth form.
Whitgift has been suggested as a possibility (for 13+ entry), but I'm confused by the information I have found on the school's website about drama.
The description of co-curricular drama sounds fantastic and the school offers drama scholarships, which suggests to me that theatre arts are valued and popular.
However when looking at their recent GCSE and A level results for the past few years, only a handful of students tend to take Drama at GCSE, and no-one appears to have taken A level Drama for several years, despite it being on offer in their A-level syllabus. I can't reconcile this with a school that specifically offers drama scholarships!
Can any current or recent Whitgift parents shed any light on the discrepancy?
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TheatreTaxi · 24/02/2017 14:29
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