Brentside High School
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Brentside High School is a co-educational Specialist
Arts College
for pupils aged 11–19. The current school building which opened in September 2004, was purpose built and designed by architects Seymour Harris.
W7 in west London
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The School is also located next to many primary schools in the Hanwell area, such as Brentside Primary School (which it is often twinned with), Mayfield Primary School, Selbourne Primary School and Hobbayne Primary School.
The school also has a reputation for other branches of the arts. A gym and dance show is held at the school every year and the school puts on a production every year, directed by the head of drama, that features a cast of students and a live band of music teachers and students. Past productions have included Grease
, My Fair Lady
, Bugsy Malone
and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
. In addition to this the school has arts mark gold status and organises trips and workshops that take the arts into the community, including productions by A-level student taking place at Hanwell town hall and trips to retirement homes by Year 10 students and some production cast members.
Specialist school
The specialist schools programme was a UK government initiative which encouraged secondary schools in England to specialise in certain areas of the curriculum to boost achievement. The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust was responsible for the delivery of the programme...
Arts College
Arts College
Arts Colleges were introduced in 1997 as part of the now defunct Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdom. The system enabled secondary schools to specialise in certain fields, in this case, the performing, visual and/or media arts...
for pupils aged 11–19. The current school building which opened in September 2004, was purpose built and designed by architects Seymour Harris.
Location
The school is located in HanwellHanwell
Hanwell is a town situated in the London Borough of Ealing in west London, between Ealing and Southall. The motto of Hanwell Urban District Council was Nec Aspera Terrent...
W7 in west London
London
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The School is also located next to many primary schools in the Hanwell area, such as Brentside Primary School (which it is often twinned with), Mayfield Primary School, Selbourne Primary School and Hobbayne Primary School.
BBC School News Report
Brentside High School in the winter/spring of 2006/07 participated in the BBC School News Report where some year 8 Students got to write, publish and broadcast their own news stories about current events happening in the country. It was a success and Brentside High School is currently being kept posted about upcoming events from the BBC and its partners.The Arts
Brentside is the London Borough of Ealing's specialist Arts college. As a result of this the school has a large art department which receives additional funding and every student takes art lessons up to year 11.The school also has a reputation for other branches of the arts. A gym and dance show is held at the school every year and the school puts on a production every year, directed by the head of drama, that features a cast of students and a live band of music teachers and students. Past productions have included Grease
Grease (musical)
Grease is a 1971 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. The musical is named for the 1950s United States working-class youth subculture known as the greasers. The musical, set in 1959 at fictional Rydell High School , follows ten working-class teenagers as they navigate the complexities of love,...
, My Fair Lady
My Fair Lady
My Fair Lady is a musical based upon George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe...
, Bugsy Malone
Bugsy Malone
Bugsy Malone is a 1976 musical film, very loosely based on events in New York City in the Prohibition era, specifically the exploits of gangsters like Al Capone and Bugs Moran, as dramatized in cinema...
and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 1964 children's book by British author Roald Dahl. The story features the adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory of the eccentric chocolatier, Willy Wonka....
. In addition to this the school has arts mark gold status and organises trips and workshops that take the arts into the community, including productions by A-level student taking place at Hanwell town hall and trips to retirement homes by Year 10 students and some production cast members.