Pupils at a York school have excelled in exams in acting, oratory and drama.
During the final week of the Easter Term, thirteen students at St Peter’s School in Clifton undertook their LAMDA Speech and Drama examinations.
All thirteen students achieved over 70%, with ten getting Distinctions and three gaining Merits.
The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) is one of the oldest drama schools in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1861, it quickly established itself as a centre of excellence in performance training. LAMDA has provided theatre and the world of film and television with generation upon generation of first-class actors and expertly-trained stage managers across the world.
LAMDA began offering speech examinations to the public in the 1880s. Since then, these examinations have been refined and developed into a comprehensive system of performance evaluation by experts in education, acting and communication. In addition to being the UK’s largest statutory speech and drama awarding body, LAMDA Examinations has a reputation for excellence across the globe.
This is the first time that it has been a purely St Peter’s cohort that have been able to take these lessons as part of the co-curricular programme.
The exams are assessed by a visiting examiner. Exams were taken in the disciplines of Acting, Verse and Prose and Speaking in Public.
The students took examinations at Bronze medal, Silver medal and Gold Medal – all of which can count towards UCAS points.