Ibstock Prospectus - Digital 2024

Senior School Ages 11-16 Whether your child is moving up from our Prep School or joining us from another school, you will find a warm and friendly environment with much to offer. At our Senior School you will find a wide array of co-curricular activities to choose from, deep links to the local community and first-class teaching to inspire academic excellence. Ibstock delivers on results too, with 74.5% of GCSE entries achieving A*- A (Grades 9-7) in 2023.

Music Our School provides an holistic and rigorous grounding in the arts, whether as a performer or a creator. A steady stream of pupils go on to study at prestigious drama schools and music conservatoires, and regularly take up places in national representative ensembles such as the National Youth Theatre, National Youth Music Theatre and National Children’s Orchestra. Equal prominence and prestige are given to rock, pop, contemporary music, and musical theatre as to its classical repertoire. All musical genres are represented in the wide range of co-curricular ensembles and groups and are supported by peripatetic music teachers.

Drama and Dance Weekly Drama lessons incorporate a broad range of practices including mime, improvisation, and script-work, with co-curricular Speech & Drama lessons taught by a visiting specialist LAMDA teacher. We are also committed to supporting those who prefer to be behind the scenes rather than centre stage. Our full-time in-house theatre technicians provide specialist and bespoke learning opportunities in sound engineering, lighting, and stage management for pupils. There is a weekly Theatre Tech club for pupils wishing to learn skills to help showcase our performing artists. After-school Dance classes are offered across a range of styles including street dance, ballet and musical theatre, taught by a team of visiting dance teachers in our bespoke dance studio.

Spectacular music from the start. GOOD SCHOOLS GUIDE 2023

Languages, Debating & Ethics We believe in the art of communication and offer French, Spanish, Mandarin and German as modern foreign language options. Through weekly Ethics, Rhetoric & Debating lessons pupils are taught the building blocks of effective public speaking, such as speech structure, rebuttal and body language. Using formal debating as a platform, contemporary issues in society are explored including politics, philosophy, social justice and environmentalism. Every pupil will have attained a Grade 2 qualification in Public Speaking and Grade 3 in Debating through the English Speaking Board (ESB) by the end of Year 8.

Art, Design & Technology Creativity is inspired through three spacious art studios and three technology workshops, a photography and screen-printing dark room and a kiln room for ceramics. Co-curricular creative clubs include Textiles Club, ‘Open Studios’ and DT club for guided projects such as furniture and jewellery design. Visiting artists are regularly invited to share unusual approaches and techniques with pupils, and pupils gain experience in exhibiting at the Summer Show for GCSE and A-Level. Stunning art from the outset. GOOD SCHOOLS GUIDE 2023

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