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Sixth Formers Advay Mehta and Abhay Shivamurthy have achieved outstanding and incredibly rare, in Advay’s case, LAMDA exam results earning Distinctions with a mark of 100% and 93% respectively in their Grade 8 Acting exams.
For the examination students have to prepare three monologues from different periods including a monologue written after 2000, a Shakespeare monologue and a monologue written from 1800-1999. They then have to discuss each of the plays with the examiner, answer questions on the period and style of each of the writers, as well as studying a theatre practitioner and answering questions on their principles, history, methods and influence.
Although it is possible at lower grades, to achieve 100% at the higher grades of 6,7 and 8 is exceptional and extremely rare.
In order not to clash with exams in the Summer, both Advay and Abhay took their Grade 8 exams in December. Eloise Daughton, from Year 8, also achieved a Distinction in her Grade 3 exam. The remainder of our Senior and Prep School pupils will take their exams in the Summer Term.
Drama at Newcastle-under-Lyme School plays an important part in our curricular and co-curricular offer with our students able to get involved with our productions which take place throughout the year, as well as taking LAMDA lessons in which our students consistently receive high exam results in Acting, Verse and Prose, and Public Speaking.
Mrs Ella Jones, our LAMDA Speech and Drama Teacher, said: “In my 16 years of teaching and 12 years of being a LAMDA examiner I have never heard of a student receiving 100% at this level. This has now changed thanks to Advay and it is really outstanding. The boys were my first students when I joined NULS as a teacher back in 2017 and I am so proud of them both!”
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