Aspiring actors are winners at the Peterborough Drama Festival
Aspiring actors are winners at the Peterborough Drama Festival
A group of 19 talented performing arts students from Bourne Academy took to the stage at the Peterborough Drama Festival last term to compete against students from other schools including Spalding Academy and Cowley Academy.
The festival is a fantastic showcase of performing arts with the aim to promote speech and performance skills. This amazing experience has increased our student’s confidence by performing in front of a live audience and also developed their artistic expertise.
Students competed in five different categories that included monologues, duologues and group acting across Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4 age groups.
There was great success for Bourne Academy as Isla Sanson and Alexa Thompson were awarded first place in KS3 Duologues (The Millennium Cup) category and Isla Liddle was awarded first place in the KS4 Monologues (The Dave Cupit Award) category.
Across the Trust, we had students placed in first, second or third place in all five categories, which is a brilliant achievement especially as this was the first time the schools in the Trust have competed in the festival.
The winners from Bourne Academy were:
KS3 Duologues: The Millennium Cup
- 1st – Isla Sanson and Alexa Thompson (Year 8)
- 2nd – Mariella Baptista and Lilee Wright (Year 8)
KS3 Monologues
- 2nd – Mason Wyche (Year 9)
- 3rd – Isabelle Afford (Year 9)
KS4 Monologues: The Dave Cupit Award
- 1st – Isla Liddle (Year 10)
Mr Wood, Director of Performance & Creative Arts at South Lincolnshire Academies Trust said “All students worked extremely hard in preparation for the festival and performed with flair and vigour. The judges were very complementary of the quality of the work and all the students should be extremely proud of themselves by bringing positivity and energy to the festival.”