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BRIT School dance star ready to face his Hollywood challenge
With half-a-million followers on TikTok, a former pupil at Selhurst’s world-famous performing arts school is preparing for a career-defining move. And Brett Sewell tells GABRIEL MacARTHUR there’s no ‘Plan B’ There is something cinematic about the image Brett Sewell paints … Continue reading
Posted in Art, BRIT School, Dance, Gabriel MacArthur, Schools
Tagged Brett Sewell, Brit School, Dua Lipa, Gabriel MacArthur, Harry Styles, Kelly Rowland, Lana Del Rey, The BRIT School
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All-star concert at Palladium to raise funds for the BRIT School
The BRIT School, the country’s leading performing and creative arts state school, has entered into a partnership for The Other Songs Live, being staged at one of the world’s most famous theatres, The London Palladium, on Tuesday, May 19. Tickets … Continue reading
Posted in Art, BRIT School, Dance, Education, Music
Tagged Adele, Grammys, Lola Young, Loyle Carner, Olivia Dean, Oscars, Raye, Selhurst, Stuart Worden, The BRIT School, The BRITS, The Kooks, Tom Holland
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Brit School celebrates its made-in-Croydon Grammys hat-trick
News just in from Hollywood: former Brit School pupils have scooped the Grammys. The Brit School had a trio of Grammy winners in Los Angeles on Sunday night. Olivia Dean, Lola Young and FKA twigs, former pupils at the specialist … Continue reading
Posted in Art, BRIT School, Dance, Education, Music, Raye, Schools, Selhurst
Tagged Adele, Brit Awards, Brit School, FKA twigs, Grammys, Lola Young, Olivia Dean, Raye, Selhurst, Stuart Worden
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Overdue maintenance works approved for six Croydon schools
Pupils and staff at six schools in Croydon are to benefit from the roll-out of a multi-million-pound maintenance programme, funded by the government, with £110.3million being invested in schools across London through the Condition Improvement Fund. The schools will benefit … Continue reading
Posted in Beckmead Park, BRIT School, Croydon West, Education, Norbury Manor, Sarah Jones MP, Schools
Tagged Beckmead College, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon West, Labour, Norbury Manor, Orchard Way Primary School, Sarah Jones MP, St Mary’s Catholic Junior and Infants, St Thomas Becket Catholic Primary School, The BRIT School, Tory
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Croydon’s Ace designer just misses making her TV finale
Last night’s Interior Design Masters with Alan Carr proved to be the last appearance for a Croydon-born contestant who had wowed the judges in previous episodes. By STEVEN DOWNES Sometimes, even when you lose, you win. Briony Ace’s phone has been … Continue reading
Posted in Art, BRIT School, Business, Comedy, Schools
Tagged Alan Carr, BBC Television, Briony Ace, Brit School, Interior Design Masters, Surrey, The BRIT School
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Youngsters take to the stage for 30th NT Connections festival
Young people across London – including from Croydon, Sutton and Bromley – have been taking part in nationwide celebrations of the National Theatre Connections’ 30th anniversary. Connections is the National Theatre’s annual youth theatre festival, where youngsters from across Greater … Continue reading
Jessie J backs BRIT appeal as school is rated ‘Outstanding’
After its first inspection for 10 years, Ofsted say the performing arts school in Selhurst has its pupils “set up for success” The BRIT School is outstanding. Well, we already knew that the performing arts-focused secondary in Selhurst, the place … Continue reading
Posted in Art, BRIT School, Education, Schools
Tagged Adele, Amy Winehouse, Jessie J, Josh Berger, Raye, Selhurst, The BRIT School, Tom Holland
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Stolen car and missing notebooks could delay Raye’s album
Croydon’s chart-topping singer Raye has issued a public appeal – after her car was stolen together with notebooks containing precious lyrics for her next album. Earlier this year, Raye – Rachel Keen when she was when a child at Coulsdon … Continue reading
Posted in Art, BRIT School, Music, Raye, Woodcote High
Tagged Coulsdon, Croydon, Raye, The BRITS
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Raye platforms her new single with live gig on Selhurst Station
Raye yesterday gave a surprise performance on a platform at Selhurst Station, to the delight and bewilderment of passing commuters. Selhurst Station is just a short walk from where the multi-BRIT award-winning singer songwriter went to school in her teens … Continue reading
Posted in Art, BRIT School, Music, Raye, Selhurst
Tagged Brit School, Raye, Selhurst, Selhurst Station
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BRIT in deal to secure free schooling for talented arts pupils
PRS for Music, a world-leading music collective management organisation, is partnering with The BRIT School’s renowned music department to inspire – and fund – the next generation of artists. The partnership will enable The BRIT School to remain free to … Continue reading
Posted in Art, BRIT School, Music, Schools, Stanley Halls
Tagged Music, PRS for Music, Selhurst, Stanley Halls, The BRIT School
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‘Miracles happen’ says Raye as she wins a record 6 Brits
On the night of her greatest acclaim, Raye – Rachel Keen when she was when a child at Coulsdon Primary and pupil at Woodcote High – gave a shout out to Croydon. “Miracles happen,” said the country’s latest, biggest music … Continue reading
Posted in Art, BRIT School, Music, Raye, Woodcote High
Tagged Coulsdon, Croydon, Raye, Rob Beckett, The BRITS
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Rewind: the real story behind Croydon’s rich musical heritage
As an exhibition opens in the Clocktower about the history of music in Croydon, NEIL BENNETT, pictured left, the former BBC News and Croydon Advertiser journalist, asks how the borough has maintained such a strong musical tradition through all its … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Borough of Culture 2023, BRIT School, Fairfield Halls, Museum of Croydon, Music, Selhurst
Tagged Adele, All Of Us Strangers, Amy Winehouse, Andrew Haigh, Beanos, Bill Wyman, David Bowie, Desmond Dekker, Fairfield Halls, Jessie J, Jimi Hendrix, Museum of Croydon, Neil Bennett, Ralph McTell, Raye, Rewind, Stormzy, The BRIT School, The BRITS, The Greyhound, The Rolling Stones, The Star
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BRIT School’s latest partnership looking to be just the job
PPL has announced a three-year partnership with The BRIT School that will see the music licensing organisation become a lead partner of the school’s music careers programme, offering a route into jobs in the music industry, while ensuring that the … Continue reading
Posted in BRIT School, Education, Music, Schools
Tagged Adele, Kae Tempest, Phonographic Performance Limited, PPL, Raye, The BRIT School, The Kooks
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Under The Flyover listens in as Billy Bragg goes to The BRIT
Forty years since the release of his Life’s A Riot album, singer-songwriter Billy Bragg visited the world-famous BRIT School in Selhurst last week to talk about his career, answering questions from pupils. In a wonderfully frank, inspiring and insightful Q&A … Continue reading
Aladdin shows it’s not just Town Hall with panto villains
Davood Ghadami says he wants to frighten as many Croydon children as he possibly can. The Holby City and EastEnders star is playing the evil Abanazar in Aladdin at the Fairfield Halls this December, and he is determined to prove … Continue reading
Brit School event gets ventilator appeal on its way to target
A five-year-old boy from Coulsdon has inspired supporters to raise £17,000 at a special event to fund ventilators that will help save the lives of children across Croydon. Mason Mole was just 18 months old and fighting for his life … Continue reading
Brit School fashions its ‘defining moment’ with Burberry
The Brit School has gone into partnership with a world-famous clothing brand to create the Burberry Stepping Stones Bursary Prize for the pupils of “global majority backgrounds” on the school’s sixth-form fashion, styling and textile course. The performing and creative … Continue reading
Posted in BRIT School, Education, Schools
Tagged Burberry, Geoffrey Williams, Stuart Worden, The BRIT School
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Sutton- and Croydon-based pupils up for BAFTA awards
A pupil from the Brit School and another who attends Carshalton Boys are both up for a BAFTA after being named as finalists for the Young Game Designers awards. Ethan Dale, 15, who lives in Sutton and goes to the … Continue reading
Another record for the Brit School: a Faiths Together visit
CROYDON COMMENTARY by JOHN WOODHOUSE A group from Faiths Together in Croydon was invited to the Brit School last week to speak about faith in our lives. The Brit School is known around the world as an outstanding Croydon school … Continue reading
Council names 12 more schools for strict traffic restrictions
The roads close to 12 more schools around the borough could be about to be given School Street status and subjected to strict term-time traffic restrictions. The council yesterday announced a month-long consultation on its proposals, which have the support … Continue reading
Posted in BRIT School, Croydon Council, Environment, Gonville Primary, Harris Academy South Norwood, Howard Primary, Krishna Avanti Primary, Park Hill Junior, Schools, Shirley, South Norwood Primary
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, Gonville Academy, Howard Primary School, Kenley, Krishna Avanti Primary, Mayor Jason Perry, Oasis Academy Shirley Park, school streets, Shirley, South Croydon, South Norwood, The BRIT School, Tory, Waddon
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BRIT School stages charity premiere from the covid Frontline
The BRIT School has partnered with Croydon Health Services NHS Trust to support its dedicated charity by staging a world premiere of an original new play about the impact of covid-19. On April 27 and 28 around two dozen Year … Continue reading
Cherrystars’ little actors showcase their talents on screen
For nearly a decade Cherrystars have run their Saturday early years community performing arts classes at the BRIT School in Selhurst. But covid-19 has forced them to take their show from the stage… and using Genie-like magic, put it on … Continue reading
Posted in Art, BRIT School, Dance, Education, Music, Selhurst, South Norwood, Stanley Halls, Theatre
Tagged Cherrystars, Selhurst, Soouth Norwood, Stanley Halls, The BRIT School
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