A Winning Performance at the Mid Somerset Festival of Speech and Drama Leweston was delighted, once again, to take the top spots in Solo and Duologue acting categories at the 2016 Mid Somerset Festival of Speech and Drama.
World Book Day 2016 A fabulous effort was made across the Leweston campus for World Book Day. In the Senior School girls enjoyed taking part in the “Who’s Reading What?” quiz, as well as dressing up as their favourite literary characters. Proceeds raised by the event were donated to Marie Curie Cancer Care.
Leweston enjoyed a clean sweep in the Under 14 Duologue category with Perdi D and Scarlett C and Freya S and Emily A, both coming 1st in their groups, and Alice S and Jessamy B and Sacha G-D and India C, taking 2nd and 3rd places respectively. In the Under 12 Solo category Lily C came 2nd. In the Under 13 Duologue Saskia CC and Libby K finished 2nd with Grace P and Sophie W in 3rd. Portia A and Olivia K came 3rd in the Duologue Under 15s and in the Under 17s, Alice L and Bella C came 2nd with Beatrice L and Carlotta G 3rd. There were some particularly strong and in some cases very moving performances which were reflected in these outstanding results, with girls receiving high marks, certificates and medals. Leweston excelled, even managing to improve upon the brilliant results seen in previous years by gaining so many places in such large classes.
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Solo Acting Success Congratulations to Izzy H for her winning performance at the recent Sherborne Solo Acting Competition at Sherborne School. The competition was held on Saturday 16th January at Sherborne School’s Powell Theatre with students between the ages of 13-18 taking part. The participants, who were representing The Gryphon School, Sherborne Girls, Leweston and Sherborne School, performed both classical and modern individual speeches to a panel of
judges, which included actress and director Sharon Miller. Izzy took first prize in the Senior Modern category and it was the second consecutive year that Leweston has won this class. There were some outstanding performances from the competitors across all the categories. Leweston would also like to congratulate Olivia K, Portia A and Bella C; they all received excellent feedback from the judges and were wonderful ambassadors for the school.