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Throughout the academic year, there are numerous opportunities for pupils to perform, including external events, auditions, festivals, competitions, class assemblies, house competitions, and whole school productions across the year groups.

We have also enjoyed consistent success with our LAMDA programme, which continues to achieve excellent results year on year.

Taught as a weekly lesson across Years 3-8, Drama at The Downs Malvern focuses on creating original work and exploring the relationship between expression and storytelling.

We use Drama to build self-confidence through public speaking, group work, peer review, and performance. However, for those pupils who prefer not to take to the stage, we still offer many opportunities to engage with the subject.

A woman dressed in a vintage green outfit hugs two children, one girl on her right and one boy on her left, in a dramatic theatrical scene. The background features a painted set of an ornate indoor space with columns and a lamp. The children are dressed in period clothing.

Weekly Drama class performances encourage pupils to engage with their ideas and devise and create their own productions. Our programme is firmly rooted in a commitment to enhance each child’s trust and self-belief and to motivate them to push further and try something new.

We have an open stage space in our Memo Hall with extensive staging, a lighting rig, and a sound desk, as well as a Drama/Dance studio for classes and rehearsals. We also deliver regular productions at Malvern College, making use of The Rogers Theatre, a wonderful, high-quality performance centre that provides an inspiring, professional-level environment for our pupils to experience and grow.

My son is a different child since doing drama here – it’s been the making of him.

Current Parent

Drama at The Downs Malvern

Drama clubs and school productions are available both as after-school Activities and through our Saturday morning Hobbies programme. We also host a variety of events each term, including Q&A sessions with professional actors and directors, and occasionally professional auditions and castings.

Our Drama programme is led by trained actor Kirsty Cubberley, who has an MA in Actor Training and has also worked as a director and theatre practitioner.