Work & Events Blog

Key stage four perform A London Romance - The Production was a culmination of a whole years work in which every student played a big part including writing the script, set design, choreography and lighting….see and read more

Charlton School appears on the BBC News - Monday 23rd February

Celebrating the work of Keith Parks and his book - Popular bible stories which have been re-written  - in cockney rhyming slang. See the work of Keith and students in call and response sessions.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7906852.stm

The Call and Response drama group were invited to Spencer House by the charity KIDS to perform Romeo and Juliet. Look at pictures taken and listen into PJ’s recording of their performance.

Stage Right, an all inclusive performing arts project has just started as an after school club at Charlton School.  Run by Greenwich Academy of Music and Drama and with the help of staff from school, students’ access music, drama and dance through various activities.  This term students have been developing their drama skills and have been learning lots of news songs.  Watch this space for details of our first performance later in the year.

The Bard and Building schools for the future  at the House of Commons 15^th May 2008

Charlton students perform at the house of commons  to a an audience of MPs and Partnership for schools.

The Call and response drama group  performed an extracts of Romeo and Juliet using 4 languages, extracts of Shakespeare’s text , key signs from BSL and words and phrases Arabic and Hebrew.

We will be performing Twelfth Night at the next  Shakespeare Schools Festival in October 2008 , PJ  as youth director .

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On April 1st 2008 the drama group received rapturous applause for their production of Grease. It was a fantastic day, with the sound of Summer Nights, Grease Lightning and much more being heard throughout the school. Well done to everyone involved…………..

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The Shakespeare Schools Festival took place in the first week of February, when over 20,000 pupils from 1,100 schools performed Shakespeare in 100 theatres throughout the uk.

A group from Charlton Schoool………..

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Pupils from C5 were joined this year by a number of pupils from the Royal Hill site for integrated drama and poetry activities. All this activity developed from the successful participation of a group of Charlton School teenagers in the one-off event, sponsored by the BBC, of the Shakespeare Schools Festival ‘One Night of Shakespeare’.