The Best of Performing Arts in Independent Schools
Performing arts give pupils ? not just budding thespians ? a rounded education. They’ve also been instrumental in building partnerships with the state sector where facilities and expertise are shared, writes Elizabeth Ivens
The UK?s independent schools sector has been under fire again ? this time, it?s being accused of ?upstaging the West End with its cutting-edge theatres?. (The Sunday Times, 10th Sept, 2017).
The newspaper suggests schools? theatrical facilities, particularly in the capital, are just a way of them competing with each other and result in parents suffering through fee rises.
But independent schools have fought back, arguing that the performing arts help to shape the education of all children, not just budding thespians and not just in the independent sector. They point to the many schools in the state sector that have outstanding facilities themselves and to the huge importance of the performing arts as part of the UK?s creative industries, which generate more than £84.1 billion a year for the economy, (Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport 2016).
Not an issue of fees
Deputy Head of Hurtwood House School, near Dorking, James Baker says: ?I?ve rarely met anyone who just builds capital projects to keep up with another school. Spending millions of pounds is not really relevant to what goes on.
Above, Hurtwood House, Surrey
Here, we have a theatre that was built 45 years ago. Hurtwood was ahead of its time in valuing the academic and creative ...
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