Arts Educational Schools, London

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Arts Educational Schools, London
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Address
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Cone Ripman House
14 Bath Road
Turnham Green Park

Chiswick
,
London
,
W4 1LY

England
Information
TypeIndependent
Established1939; 82 years ago (1939)
FounderGrace Cone and Olive Ripman
Local authorityHounslow
SpecialistPerforming arts
Department for Education URN102551 Tables
OfstedReports
PresidentAndrew Lloyd Webber
PrincipalChris Hocking
GenderCoeducational
Age11+
Websitehttp://artsed.co.uk

Arts Educational Schools, or ArtsEd, is an independent performing arts school based in Chiswick in the London Borough of Hounslow.

Overview[]

ArtsEd provides specialist vocational training at secondary, further and higher education level in musical theatre and acting for film and television. The school also offers part-time and holiday courses in the performing arts. The school had been accredited by Drama UK (organisation dissolved in 2016), and it offers Qualifications and Curriculum Authority recognised qualifications validated by the City University London or Trinity College, London.

ArtsEd is one of twenty-one specialist performing arts schools approved to offer government-funded Dance and Drama Awards, a scheme established to subsidise the cost of professional dance and drama training for the most talented students at leading institutions.[1][2]

In 2013 ArtsEd was awarded a grant by the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation to fund a refurbishment project. The money was spent on the main theatre, costume storage, the School of Film and Television and the school's access facilities.[3]

In 2015 the school was rated "Outstanding" by Ofsted.[4]

It is a member of the Federation of Drama Schools.[5]

History[]

School[]

ArtsEd was founded in 1939. It was formed as a result of a merger between the Cone School of Dancing founded in 1919 by Grace Cone, and the Ripman School founded in 1922 by Olive Ripman. Both Cone and Ripman offered curricula combining a general academic education with training in the arts, in preparation for professional careers connected with the theatre. The two schools were amalgamated in 1939 to form the Cone-Ripman School, the predecessor of today's ArtsEd.[6]

The school was first based at Stratford Place in London,[7] but following the outbreak of World War II, relocated to Tring, Hertfordshire, sharing premises with Rothschild Bank at Tring Park.

In 1941, the school reopened at Stratford Place, while the second school continued to operate in Tring. In 1947, both schools were renamed the Arts Educational Schools. The London school was later based at Golden Lane House in the Barbican. In 1986 the school purchased the former buildings of Chiswick Polytechnic.[6]

In the 2000s the two schools became independent of each other, and the Tring school has been renamed Tring Park School for the Performing Arts.[8] Today, Arts Educational Schools London is a co–educational Independent Day School and Sixth Form for pupils aged 11–18, and a professional conservatoire specialising in acting and musical theatre, as well as a range of part-time courses.

For many years, the president of the school was prima ballerina assoluta Dame Alicia Markova; Dame Beryl Grey became Director in the 1960s. Dame Alicia was succeeded in 2007 by Andrew Lloyd Webber.[6]

Iain Reid was dean of the schools from 1999 until his retirement in December 2006. He was succeeded by John Baraldi, former chief executive of Riverside Studios, and former director of the East 15 Acting School; Baraldi left the school in early 2009, and was succeeded by Jane Harrison. The current dean is Chris Hocking.

Chiswick School of Art[]

The arts and crafts architect Maurice Bingham Adams designed the Chiswick School of Art as part of the Bedford Park Garden Suburb's community focus on the site on Bath Road in 1881. It was destroyed by a V-1 flying bomb in 1944.[9] The school was meant to provide the estate with a feeling of community. It taught classes such as "Freehand drawing in all its branches, practical Geometry and perspective, pottery and tile painting, design for decorative purposes – as in Wall-papers, Furniture, Metalwork, Stained Glass".[10] The school was depicted by Thomas Erat Harrison in an 1882 book Bedford Park, celebrating the then-fashionable garden suburb.[11]

Former pupils[]

See also: Category:People educated at the Arts Educational Schools

See also[]

  • List of schools in Hounslow

References[]

  1. ^ "Grants and bursaries for adult learners". Archived from the original on 4 February 2009. Retrieved 6 February 2009.
  2. ^ Gov.uk: Dance and Drama 10023485 Archived 16 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Lloyd Webber donates £3.5million to 'Dorothy' performing arts school". Evening Standard. 12 April 2012. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
  4. ^ enquiries@ofsted.gov.uk, Ofsted Communications Team. (14 December 2017). "Find an inspection report and registered childcare". reports.ofsted.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 25 June 2016. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
  5. ^ Granger, Rachel. "Rapid Scoping Study on Leicester Drama School" (PDF). De Montfort University Leicester. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b c "History". Retrieved 20 August 2021.
  7. ^ "Survey of London: 6. Stratford Place" (PDF). Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. p. 31. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
  8. ^ "Tring Park School for the Performing Arts". Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
  9. ^ "Chiswick School of Art". Artist Biographies. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  10. ^ "1881 – Chiswick School of Art, Bedford Park, London". Archiseek. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  11. ^ Dollman, John Charles; Hargitt, Edward; Harrison, Thomas Erat; Jackson, F. Hamilton; Nash, Joseph, Jr.; Paget, H. M.; Rooke, Thomas; Trautschold, Manfred; Brooks, Vincent; Carr, Jonathan T.; Berry, Berry F. (1882). Bedford Park. Harrison and Sons. OCLC 193146366.
  12. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j "Alumni". Arts Educational Schools London. 2014. Archived from the original on 15 July 2014. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
  13. ^ ArtsEd [@ArtsEdLondon] (22 May 2018). "Our brilliant Saturday Skills #Alumna Mimi Slinger, will now be appearing as a regular character, Leanna Cavanagh in @emmerdale. Congratulations Mimi!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.

External links[]

Coordinates: 51°29′46″N 0°15′09″W / 51.49611°N 0.25250°W / 51.49611; -0.25250

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