We are excited to announce that we have been awarded ‘Centre of Excellence’ status in the Performing Arts!

In receiving this award, Ridgewood joins an elite group of four schools in Milan, Nice and in the UK, which have focused on performing arts training to develop the key competencies of confidence, creativity, collaboration, and compassion in their students. These competencies are the most valued by universities and by leading employers around the world.

Students at Ridgewood, and their partner primary schools worked with Artists who have played the leading roles in ‘Annie’, ‘Sweeny Todd’, ‘Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’ and ‘Cats’.

CEO of Arts International, Dr Andrew Lee, ‘Ridgewood is the first state school in the world to partner with us, and one with the most dramatic impact. Our Artists have said that Ridgewood students are some of the most focussed, professional and talented that we have worked with and we are delighted to recognise the school as a Centre of Excellence in the Performing Arts’.