Arts Educational Schools

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Arts Educational Schools, London
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The school, from Bath Road, Chiswick
Location
Arts Educational Schools
Cone Ripman House
14 Bath Road
Turnham Green Park

Chiswick
,
London
,
W4 1LY

England
Information
Type Private
Established1939;86 years ago (1939)
FounderGrace Cone and Olive Ripman
Local authority Hounslow
SpecialistPerforming arts
Department for Education URN 102551 Tables
Ofsted Reports
President Andrew Lloyd Webber
PrincipalLouise Jackson [1]
Gender Coeducational
Age11+
Website http://artsed.co.uk

Arts Educational Schools, or ArtsEd, is a drama school, and an independent performing arts secondary school in Chiswick, West London, England.

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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.

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. [2] [3] It is a member of the Federation of Drama Schools. [4]

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. [5]

The school was first based at Stratford Place, off Oxford Street in London. [6] Teaching was disrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War, but in 1941, the school reopened at Stratford Place, while a second school operated at Tring Park. [5] In 1945, the Cone-Ripman School obtained the lease to Tring Park; later, it purchased the building. [7] In 1947, both schools were renamed the Arts Educational Schools. [5] The London school was for a while, until 1962, based at Hyde Park Corner (144 Piccadilly). [8] The school then moved repeatedly to other buildings in Kensington. [9] In 1969, the school acquired a lease for 21 years on Golden Lane House in the Barbican area of London. [9] In 1986 the school purchased the former buildings of Chiswick Polytechnic. [5]

In the 2000s, the two schools became independent of each other, and the Tring school was renamed Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. [10]

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. [5]

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 2009, and was succeeded by Jane Harrison. In 2017, Chris Hocking assumed the role of principal; he resigned in 2021 and was succeeded by Julie Spencer as interim principal. [11]

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. [12] [13]

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. [14] 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". [15] The school was depicted by Thomas Erat Harrison in an 1882 book Bedford Park, celebrating the then-fashionable garden suburb. [16] The Chiswick School of Art building was destroyed by a V-1 flying bomb in 1944. [14]

Academics

The school's Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation Theatre, 2013 ALWF Theatre - main image.jpg
The school's Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation Theatre, 2013

Day School and Sixth Form

The Day School and Sixth Form cater to students aged 11 to 18. Students are required to study mainstream subjects, in preparation for the GCSE and A-Levels, alongside their performing arts pursuits. [17] Besides the A-Levels pathway, Sixth Form students have an option to complete a BTEC Extended Diploma in a performing arts discipline. [18]

In 2015, the school was rated "Outstanding" by Ofsted. [19] In 2019 it ranked second in the borough for percentage of pupils passing five or more GCSEs at A*-C. [20]

Tertiary

The school had been accredited by Drama UK (organisation dissolved in 2016). It offers Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education recognised qualifications validated by the City University London or Trinity College, London. [21] A non-degree foundation course is offered for students who do not meet the academic requirements for admission into the bachelor's degree programmes. [22]

Former pupils

See also

References

  1. ↑ "A message from our Principal, Louise Jackson". Arts Educational Schools. Retrieved 8 July 2025.
  2. ↑ "Grants and bursaries for adult learners". Archived from the original on 4 February 2009. Retrieved 6 February 2009.
  3. ↑ Gov.uk: Dance and Drama 10023485 Archived 16 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ Granger, Rachel. "Rapid Scoping Study on Leicester Drama School" (PDF). De Montfort University Leicester. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 "History" . Retrieved 20 August 2021.
  6. ↑ "Survey of London: 6. Stratford Place" (PDF). Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. p. 31. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
  7. ↑ "History of the Mansion of Tring (From Domesday to the Present)". Tring: Local History. Retrieved 19 October 2025.
  8. ↑ Cove, Grace (6 April 1962). "The Arts Educational Schools Limited" (PDF). The London Gazette . Retrieved 11 May 2022.
  9. 1 2 "About". ArtsEd. Retrieved 19 October 2025. In 1969 ArtsEd took on a twenty-one year lease of Golden Lane House (near what is now the Barbican) and moved to the City from its final, of five, Kensington homes. When this lease expired in 1986, ArtsEd took over the former Chiswick Polytechnic in Bath Road, which has been our home ever since.
  10. ↑ "Tring Park School for the Performing Arts". Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. Archived from the original on 15 April 2011. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
  11. ↑ "Arts Ed Principal Resigns After Safeguarding Report Published". Chiswick W4. 24 October 2021. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
  12. ↑ "Lloyd Webber donates £3.5million to 'Dorothy' performing arts school". Evening Standard. London. 12 April 2012. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
  13. ↑ "ArtsEd: 100 Parents "Horrified" Over Bullying Claims At Andrew Lloyd Webber-Backed Drama School". Deadline.
  14. 1 2 "Chiswick School of Art". Artist Biographies. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  15. ↑ "1881 – Chiswick School of Art, Bedford Park, London". Archiseek. 26 August 2009. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  16. ↑ 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.
  17. ↑ "Day School Curriculum". artsed.co.uk.
  18. ↑ "ArtsEd London Sixth Form – Curriculum Policy" (PDF). artsed.co.uk.
  19. ↑ 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.
  20. ↑ "School league tables in London: Find out how your school did for GCSE and A-Level results". Evening Standard. London. 7 February 2020.
  21. ↑ Higher Education Review (Alternative Providers) of The Arts Educational Schools. Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education. October 2017.
  22. ↑ "Courses: Foundation". artsed.co.uk.
  23. ↑ Beacom, Brian (16 July 2013). "Glasgow actress Moyo is casting spells in Macbeth". The Glasgow Times. Retrieved 18 September 2023. I sent off applications and was accepted by Arts Educational (the London performing arts school in Chiswick)
  24. ↑ "Kai Alexander". Tresa Magazine. 1 June 2020. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  25. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "The Arts Educational performing arts schools". The Chiswick Calendar. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  26. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "Alumni". Arts Educational Schools London. 2022. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  27. ↑ Hanrahan, Laura (18 February 2021). "Everything You Need To Know About 'Bridgerton' Season 2 Star Simone Ashley". Cosmopolitan. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
  28. ↑ Cassell, Paul (3 June 2009). "Samantha Barks in the popular musical Cabaret". GetReading. Retrieved 8 December 2012.
  29. ↑ King, Gordon. "Darcey Bussell". Everenglish.org.uk. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
  30. ↑ Gordon, Bryony (21 October 2008). "Darcey Bussell: Dance? Not for my daughters". The Daily Telegraph . London. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
  31. ↑ "Gary Carr" (PDF). London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 1 July 2009.
  32. ↑ "ArtsEd at the 2024 Olivier Awards". artsed. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
  33. ↑ Gans, Andrew. "Watch Olivier Winner Tom Francis Sing 'Sunset Boulevard' in Music Video Directed by Jamie Lloyd". Playbill. Retrieved 7 March 2025.
  34. ↑ "Food: Laura Haddock and Eleanor Wylde". OK! . 29 January 2008. Archived from the original on 23 February 2012. Retrieved 13 August 2009.
  35. ↑ Vitsilogiannis, Vassilios Nicolaos (4 April 2022). "Greek Actor Alexandros Logothetis: Real Life is Far More Interesting than a Nice Movie" – via Greek City Times.
  36. ↑ "Madeleine Mantock". TV Guide. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
  37. ↑ McKenna, Megan (2018). Mouthy. John Blake. ISBN   978-1-78606-895-8.
  38. ↑ Pickstock, Heather (15 March 2013). "Bristol actress Tuppence Middleton stars in Hitchcock TV thriller ..." Bristol Post . Archived from the original on 31 March 2014. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
  39. ↑ 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.
  40. ↑ "Charles Spencer on Instagram: "My son, Louis, graduated today from @artsedlondon with a First-class degree. He was selected as his year's valedictorian, and it was an absolutely beautiful speech – perfectly-delivered, touchingly generous, hugely grateful, and including references to so many of his 80 classmates. A final farewell hug to his brilliant principal here, and then on to his career. I couldn't be prouder of him – so much hard work, to add to a very rare gift. Congratulations, Louis!"". Instagram. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
  41. ↑ Pelley, Rich (20 July 2020). "Timmy Mallett and Michaela Strachan: how we made Wide Awake Club". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
  42. ↑ Gray, Chris (18 July 2013). "Abingdon's Oliver Tompsett on his star role in We Will Rock You". Oxford Mail. Retrieved 30 May 2022.

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