It's not every day that you hear pupils at Rushcliffe School say about their lessons: "you had to be strange." Yet that's just what Year 9 Drama pupils have been saying about their recent drama lessons which have focused on the work of theatre practitioner Antonin Artaud. The Key Stage 3 Drama curriculum has been designed to explore and challenge students' creativity; studying the work of the Frenchman has been a perfect example of this.

Paige Curzon, of 9D, explains: "Artaud made you think about how different types of theatre can change the feelings of the audience." Evie Fletcher, a Level 8 Year 9 student, added that Artaud's theatre "helps show different emotions that you don't normally show in other drama styles such as realism." Through different exercises and activities, year 9 students have been combining theory and practical work to create a piece of drama that deliberately made the audience feel uncomfortable.

Rushcliffe School's Fairtrade Team
have accepted the challenge to sell 90kg of rice.
This is the amount of rice sold that would enable a Malawian farmer to pay for a year's basic secondary education for one child.

Back row – Joel Fraser ,Simran Kaur ,Kathryn Fry, Amy Lee, Yousif Ali, Martin Rao, Andrew Plant , Zoe Fernie.
Front row - Hannah Colley, Suzannah Horn , Amber Hudson, Abbie Durrant , Millie Corrall ,Dougie Williamson.

26 sixth-formers from Rushcliffe School are going into a care home in Hilton Crescent and making friends with elderly residents.

Some of the residents are living with dementia so the 16 to 17 year-olds have been trained to deal with the behaviours this might cause – and with being forgotten from one visit to the next. But the teenagers are continuing to go in because "we want the elderly to be less lonely and to show them that there is good in young people".

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