It's all drama as Westergate school takes up specialist status

The final days of last termsaw everyone on the campus involved in the latest annual arts festival.

Head of drama Emma Molineaux-Inglis said: "We held arts activities which are based on the curriculum but looking at ways in which we can use creativity in them.

"It's about getting the pupils to look at how they learn and how they can learn in a way to make work more interesting.

"It's a case of looking at subjects in different ways."

The festival was the perfect end to the school's existence before it becomes a specialist performing and visual arts school at the start of the next term in September.

Ms Molineaux-Inglis, who is to become the head of creative arts, stated: "It took four years to be awarded the status and it is a very exciting time to be at the school."

The festival involved about 600 students.

Their activities ranged from curve stitching and making gift cards to show maths in action to making metal flowers in technology.

They also performed break dancing as well as role playing to put work about genetics into human stories of life and death.

The Cirque de Normandy brought a big top to the site as well. Plate spinning and juggling were just some of the skills the artistes passed on to students.

They took part in a performance for the rest of the school on Tuesday before a public show that evening.

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