CapeUK - Out of School Hours Learning Programme

Schools > Chorlton High School

View the Participating Schools:

Leeds Schools:

South Leeds High – formerly Merlyn Rees High School

City of Leeds School

Ralph Thoresby High School Community Arts College

Lawnswood School

Intake High School Arts College

Roundhay School

Manchester Schools:

Chorlton High School

Newall Green High School

Egerton Park Arts School

Plant Hill High School

Chorlton High School is a centre of excellence for the arts in Manchester, we became a Specialist School for the Arts in 2002, allowing us to provide high quality arts education for both students and the local community and to transform the lives and achievements of young people in Chorlton. The educational experience in Chorlton High has been vastly enriched through our commitment to bringing the arts into the daily lives of our students.
Students have been given more opportunities to achieve through the provision of a wide range of qualifications in the performing arts and additional changes in the curriculum. After school they can take part in art clubs ranging from the Strings Orchestra to the Urban Dance Collective, developing personal skills, self-confidence and creativity. This work has been highly influenced by CAPEUK/NOF projects which have had an impact, not just arts activities but across the hundred weekly activities that make up our out of hours provision, including a crafts club, samba, boxing and capoeira.

E-space provided us with a suitably spectacular piece with which to open our new theatre, the Blue Box Theatre. Since then the Maurice Gibb Recording Studio has been opened by his brothers Robin and Barry, and we have begun to produce our own CDs under the Blue Box label.

http://www.chorltonhigh.manchester.sch.uk