PENDLETONSCHOOL OF PERFORMING & PRODUCTION ARTS

WELCOME TO PENDLETON SIXTH FORM CENTRE

The Performing & Production Arts Department at Pendleton Sixth Form Centre has an undisputed reputation for excellent teaching and for ensuring that students are given the support and encouragement they need to pursue their dreams.

We aim to offer guidance and support to enable all of our students to make a confident and informed decision about the next stage of their career - whether it is a place at a drama school, university or full-time employment. Your time at Pendleton Sixth Form Centre will be full of challenges with plenty of rewards on offer in an environment that is both fun and hard working, and with a schedule that is guaranteed to stretch your beyond your wildest dreams.

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WHY CHOOSE PENDLETON SIXTH FORM CENTRE

THE FACTS• The Performing Arts Department

has achieved a prestigious Beacon Award for its practical teaching and learning

• We have committed and experienced staff - over 90% Grade 1 in Lesson Observations

• We have an outstanding reputation throughout the country

• The department staff have all worked extensively in the industry and between them have an inordinate amount of skills and experience to pass on to our students

• For many years the department’s courses have achieved a 100% pass rate

• Drama schools come into Pendleton Sixth Form Centre to audition students

• A high percentage of students progress on to the top drama institutions

OUR FACILITIES• 260 seat Eccleston

Theatre equipped with the latest industry standard sound and lighting

• 100 seat Ben Kingsley Theatre

• Four dance studios with sprung floors, mirrors and ballet barres

• Six performance studios

• Music suite

• Outdoor performance space

• Rehearsal rooms

• Popular music suite

• Film and media rooms

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OUR STUDENTS WIN PLACES AT LEADING DRAMA,MUSIC

& DANCE SCHOOLS

• Academy of Live and Recorded Arts (ALRA)

• American Academy of Dramatic Arts

• American Musical and Dramatic Academy

• Arden School of Theatre

• Arts Educational

• Birmingham School of Acting

• Bristol Old Vic Theatre School

• Central School of Speech and Drama

• Doreen Bird College

• East 15

• Guildford School of Acting Conservative

• Guildhall School of Music and Drama

• Hammond Ballet School

• Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts

• Laban Contemporary Dance Conservative

• Laine Theatre Arts

• Leeds College of Music

• Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts (LIPA)

• London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMADA)

• London Centre of Contemporary Music

• London Studio Centre

• MADD

• Millennium Dance

• Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts

• New York Film Academy

• Northern Ballet School

• Northern School of Contemporary Dance

• Performers College

• Phil Winton’s Theatreworks College

• Rose Bruford College

• Royal Academy of Dramatic arts (RADA)

• Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama

• Urdang Academy

YEAR ON YEAR OUR STUDENTS ARE SUCCESSFUL IN APPLYING TO DRAMA AND DANCE SCHOOLS INCLUDING:

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OUR STUDENTS GO ON TO UNIVERSITY DEGREES AT:• Aberystwyth

• Blackpool

• Chester

• Chichester

• Colchester

• Cumbria

• Durham

• Edge Hill

• Huddersfield

• Hull

• Kent

• Lancaster

• Leeds

• Liverpool Hope

• London Studios

• Manchester Metropolitan

• Newcastle University

• Salford

• Sheffield Hallam

• South Bank

• Thames Valley

• UCLAN

DRAMA SCHOOLS AUDITION ON SITEDue to the high number of our students who win places at top drama schools and the high quality of their work, we are now able to offer auditions for some drama schools on site at Pendleton Sixth Form Centre. Over the years these have included:

• ALRA

• Arts Educational

• Guildford School of Acting Conservatoire

• Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts

• Royal Welsh College

THE KERRIGAN AWARDSTo help students to take the next step to drama school, the Kerrigan Award is presented to the two students who have consistently proved their ability and commitment. Each student received a trophy and £250 towards the cost of drama school.

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Christopher EcclestonActor

It’s a huge honour for myself and my family to be associated with the college. I’m inspired by the passion, commitment and talent of the students and staff - Salford’s finest.

Dr John BentleyComposer and Writerfor The Guardian

What Pendleton Chamber Choir has achieved is remarkable; they are one of the freshest, most vibrantly musical groups of young people I have ever heard. They are sure to go far.

Stephen JamesonPrincipal & Director of Performance, Mountview Academy

The magnificent team at Pendleton Sixth Form Centre regularly product some of the most exciting young talent in the UK for professional drama training academies, such as Mountview. The annual trip to audition the Salford City College students is one of the most important dates in our calendar.

OUTSTANDING QUOTES

LEARNER PROFILE

NAME: Samuel Green

PREVIOUS SCHOOL: Harper Green School

Musical Theatre

WHY SALFORD CITY COLLEGE? Excellent reputation for Performing Arts

ENJOYED THE MOST: All of the shows that I have been involved in and the Cambridge Choir trip

DREAM JOB: To work on the West End Stage

COURSE:

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THE NEXT STEP

APPLICATION FORMTo begin the admissions process, fill in an online application form at www.salfordcc.ac.uk or call Admissions on 0161 631 5000.

AUDITION DAYAll of our students must pass an audition to gain a place in our award-winning department; however, this is nothing to be alarmed about. We aim to make our audition days fun and exciting - bringing out the best in you and helping you determine which course will suit you best.

During the day you will perform an individual audition and also take part in a range of classes and activities. For your individual audition, you will need to prepare a two minute piece of work. What you prepare depends on the course(s) that you are applying for and you will get detailed information about this when your audition date is booked.

You will also have an interview during your audition day.

LEARNER PROFILE

NAME: Aimee Chan

PREVIOUS SCHOOL: Mount St Joseph

Dance

WHY SALFORD CITY COLLEGE? Good dance facilities

ENJOYED THE MOST: Taking part in the flash mob, African dancing, Season Shows, the teachers and meeting new people

DREAM JOB: Dance Teacher

COURSE:

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SEE FOR YOURSELF!For the latest shows visit pendletonperformingarts.salfordcc.ac.uk

Every year we stage several major shows with full set and costumes, all produced to the highest standard. This gives our students the opportunity to see what it is like to take part in a show with professional scenery, custom-made costumes and full technical support and production. Students audition for a part in the show, just as they will in the industry. The shows are marketed both in college and the local area to schools, businesses and local residents.

We aim to produce a wide variety of shows including comedy, drama, musical theatre and dance to provide students with experience of all types of performance and to enable you to try out different genres and explore your own individual talents. Previous shows include Rent, Les Miserablés, Grease, Twelfth Night, Witches of Eastwick, Fame, West Side Story and The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

BOOKINGSTickets can be purchased at the Ticket Office, Pendleton Sixth Form Centre or by calling the Ticket Office on 0161 631 5000 (Open Monday to Friday, 10:00am - 1:30pm, term time only).

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SEE FOR YOURSELF!For the latest shows visit pendletonperformingarts.salfordcc.ac.uk

ENRICHMENT ACTIVITIES

Taking part in enrichment activities will not only help you with your studies but also offers you new experiences and a chance to learn more about the arts and entertainment industry. These are just some of the things we can offer:

• Fight Club - Fencing & Fisticuffs

• Audition Classes - Monologues & Songs

• Tap Company

• Three Choirs

• Season of Shows

• Dance Classes

• Cambridge College Singing

GUEST SPEAKERS AND MASTERCLASSES HAVE INCLUDED:• Peter Kay

Actor & Comedian

• Christopher Eccleston Actor (Dr Who, Our Friends in the North)

• Jon Robyns Actor (Avenue Q, Les Miserablés)

• Julian Kelly Musical Director (Mack & Mabel)

• Chris O’Connell Playwright & Director

• Punch Drunk Theatre Company

• English National Ballet

• Sally Carman Actress (Shameless)

• Emily Butterfield Actress (Dinnerladies)

• Faye Barber Actress (Grease, Legally Blonde)

• Michael Peavoy Actor (Hamlet)

• Richard Alston Dance Company

• Charlotte Habib Dancer & Choreographer (Mamma Mia)

• Noreen Kershaw Actress & Director

• Cast of High School Musical 2 UK Tour

• Sara Poyzer Actress (Mamma Mia, Billy Elliot)

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TOURING COMPANIES

CHAMBER CHOIR The Chamber Choir was founded in 2005 and is made up of over 30 singers. The choir meets every week during term time to rehearse the very best music from the Renaissance to the present day - both a cappella and with an orchestra.

The choir has performed major choral concerts in Salford Cathedral, Manchester Cathedral, St Ann’s Church, St Augustine’s Church, St Philip’s with St Stephen’s Church and at Clare and Girton Colleges in Cambridge. The choir has also toured Romania and France. Students taking part have received master classes from Tim Brown (Head of Music at Clare College, Cambridge) and Mike Brewer OBE (Head of The National Youth Choirs of Great Britain and Laudibus).

CONTEMPORARY CHOIR The Contemporary Choir was founded in 2006 and is made up of over 30 singers. The choir performs pieces from the 20th and 21st century, specialising in gospel and pop music.

The choir has performed major choral concerts in Salford Cathedral, Manchester Cathedral, St Ann’s Church, St Augustine’s Church, St Philip with St Stephen’s Church, Clare College Cambridge, Girton College Cambridge, St Hild & St Bede’s College Durham and St Oswald’s Church Durham. Students taking part have received masterclasses from Tim Brown (Head of Music and Clare College, Cambridge), Mike Brewer OBE (Head of The National Youth Choirs of Great Britain and Laudibus) and James

Davey (Musical Director of Chantage, BBC Radio 3 Choir of the Year 2006).

The pieces are arranged specially for the choir and are tailored to suit specific singers. Most of the singers have a musical theatre background and can easily adapt to the many different vocal styles that the choir performs. They have performed many genres of music including jazz, gospel, pop, rock, metal and classical.

SHAKESPEARE COMPANYThe Shakespeare Company is an ensemble group committed to demystifying and performing Shakespeare (and other classical plays), and taking them to school and colleges around the region.

The Shakespeare Company established itself with a successful ‘Bits of the Bard’ fundraising event. Since that time the company has tackled several of the Bard’s popular plays including Much Ado About Nothing, The Merchant of Venice, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, and Romeo and Juliet. In 2009 the company started touring local schools, which has grown year on year, giving students their first taste of the life of an actor. The tour is concluded each year with outdoor performances at Heaton Park.

THE CONSORT OF VOICESA choir of eight specialist sight-reading students who tour with classical, religious, musical theatre, jazz and pop music songs from Ars Nova period to the present day.

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A-LEVEL COURSES

DANCE This course adopts a practical approach to dance technique, physiology, history, performance and choreography with the emphasis on applying choreographic principles to performance. Students have the opportunity to showcase both their choreographic and performance work in productions staged for the general public and can expect to attend a number of professional dance performances throughout the course.

As well as choreographic and performing your own solo work, you will perform in duos and trios. You will also study the history dance and different dance styles.

MUSICThis course is ideal for students who have an interest in classical music and musicals and who enjoy composing their own music in their own style. You will be keen to improve your own composing and instrumental playing (as a soloist and in groups). You will study other composers’ work and learn in detail how compositions are put together to help you write your own.

You will listen, perform, study and analyse three set works, and learn about the world of the musicals. You will compose your own music and perform it with other and on your own, as well as use Cubase SX3 to compose computer-generated music on the latest up-to-date systems.

DRAMA Drama is an exciting and challenging course, which is ideal for students with a keen enthusiasm for theatre - performing, analysing plays devising performances and studying theatre texts. In the first year of the course students will study two texts. Through practical sessions students will explore characterisation, and develop their own performance pieces based on the text. Alongside this there is also a written coursework component. In the second half of the year students work as actors on a group piece and monologue or duologue.

In the second year students are given the freedom to devise their own piece of theatre, and perform these in front of an audience. Alongside this students will study classical texts and research the original performance conditions.

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VOCATIONAL COURSES

DANCE (BTEC EXTENDED DIPLOMA)

This course will appeal to students who have a genuine interest in all aspects of dance, who enjoy watching and performing dance and would like to pursue a professional career in this area. Emphasis is placed on the physical practice, choreography and performance of dance supported by physiology, history and the context of dance performance.

Units studied include:

• Choreography

• Dance appreciation

• Dance performance

• Jazz technique

• Ballet technique

• Contemporary technique

MUSICAL THEATRE (BTEC EXTENDED DIPLOMA)

This course will appeal to the many students who wish to study this very popular art form. This course really prepares students for either university or drama school, and a career in the entertainment industry.

Units studied include:

• Solo singing

• Ballet

• Jazz dance

• Audition preparation

• Ensemble singing

• Acting

• Tap

• Voice

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TECHNICAL THEATRE: PRODUCTION ARTS (BTEC EXTENDED DIPLOMA)

Units studied include:

• Stage management

• Assistant stage management

• Lighting design and operation

• Sound operation

• Stage model making

This course is ideally suited to students who wish to pursue a career in the performing arts industries. The course will take you from the basics of equipment and operation through to advanced design and management techniques, giving you a varied and comprehensive skill base to allow progression to HE or directly into the industry. Students will attend various productions and theatre tours and will undergo a series of work experience placements to expand their skills and enhance their professional portfolios.

PERFORMING ARTS: ACTING (BTEC FIRST DIPLOMA)

In this course students will gain a good foundation in all the basic principles of acting and stagecraft. There is some written work involved, but this is a predominantly practical course. Students will have the opportunity to attend numerous theatre visits, create their own performance piece to tour to schools, and be given several dedicated performance evenings in one of the college theatres.

Units studied include:

• Acting

• Devising

• Performing scripted plays

The majority of students who have taken this course have progressed on to one of the Extended Diploma courses within the department.

In this course students will gain an understanding of drama and the medium of theatre, as well as create, explore and discover advanced skills and techniques in specialist areas. Though this is a predominantly practical course, students are expected to regularly read plays, and complete written research tasks.

ACTING (BTEC EXTENDED DIPLOMA)

Units studied include:

• Principles of acting

• Film and TV acting

• Physical theatre

• Audition technique

• Classical theatre

• Voice

• Theatre for Children

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HALL OF FAMEFORMER PENDLETON SIXTH FORM CENTRE STUDENTS

MICHELLE KEEGAN played Tina in Coronation Street and won Best Soap Actress at the TV Choice Awards 2012.

TOM GLYNN-WHITEHEAD has starred in Casualty.

MARK FLANAGAN played Thomas King in Emmerdale between 2012 and 2013. Mark has also appeared in Accused, The Story of Tracy Beaker and Holby City.

FAYE BROOKES played Frenchie in the West End production of Grease and Elle Woods in the UK Tour of Legally Blonde.

CHARLOTTE HARWOOD played Gloria in the West End production of Footloose and Vivienne Kensington in the UK Tour of Legally Blonde.

JOE EVANS appeared as Jean Pouvaire in Les Miserablés in the West End and was also in the UK Tour of Beauty & The Beast.

CHRIS MANN has played Neil in the West End production of Dirty Dancing.

RACHEL PARROTT has played one of the main singers in the West End production of The Rat Pack.

OLIVIA BRERETON played the understudy for Christine in the 2011 UK Tour of Phantom of the Opera.

PAUL-RYAN CARBERRY had the lead role in Billy Liar at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. Other credits include A Christmas Carol and All the Fun for the Fair (UK Tour).

CHRIS JOHNSON is a morning presenter on CBBC and is also the voice of Dennis the Menace in a new series of Dennis and Gnasher on CBBC.

MISHA TIMMINS has starred in Candy Cabs and Law and Order.

NICOLA POTTS has appeared in Shameless, Worried About the Boy, The Accused and Scott and Bailey.

DAVE ATKINS has appeared in Shameless, The Street, Doctor Who and Northern Lights, City Lights.

MELANIE POTTS worked on the UK Tour of Angels in America: Part 1 and the short films I Promise To Pay the Bearer and Hear Me Now.

REUBEN JOHNSON wrote, directed and starred in the Off-West End production of Territory. The play then went on a UK Tour and has recently been made into a feature film starring Reuben and other ex-students Craig Morris, Yusef Khamisa and Jamie Malseed.

MATT GARNER has been a feature actor on adverts for Adidas, Reebok and Natwest, as well as playing a role in The Bill.

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HANNAH TIERNEY has had an extensive technical theatre career working at the Lowry and in the West End on shows such as Les Miserablés, Mary Poppins and The Phantom of the Opera.

TOM GILL starred in British horror film Eden Lake, and joined the cast of Emmerdale in December 2013 playing Finn Barton.

TOM MANN has worked on sound for the West End production of Wicked and was also the sound designer for the UK Tour of The Reluctant Debutant.

SUZANNAH BREMNER was the Assistant Choreographer for Alexandra Burke’s Start Without You music video and appeared in the trailer for So You Think You Can Dance.

JOE GILL plays Finn Barton in Emmerdale and Al Dugden in In the Flesh.

JORDAN LEVER has worked as a stage manager for the West End production of Dirty Dancing and the UK Tours of Keeping Up Appearances, Dinnerladies and Seven Brides For Seven Brothers.

MICHAEL PEAVOY won Sondheim Singer of the Year in 2009 and has completed a UK Tour and West End production of Hamlet.

ADAM BARLOW played Billy in Kes at Oldham Coliseum, appear in The Road to Nab End and performed in Chess in Concert at The Royal Albert Hall with Idina Menzel and Josh Groban.

LEARNER PROFILE

NAME: James Butterfield

PREVIOUS SCHOOL: The Kingsway School

Performing Arts

WHY SALFORD CITY COLLEGE? Has the best acting course

ENJOYED THE MOST: Guest speakers, teachers and co-learners

DREAM JOB: A Professional Actor

COURSE:

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0161 631 5000

WWW.SALFORDCC.AC.UK

PENDLETON SIXTH FORM CENTRE,DRONFIELD ROAD, SALFORD, M6 7FR

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