Junior Scholarship and Enrichment Drama Students’ Workshop – Nov 2025

Last week, Junior Scholarship and Enrichment students joined the Drama Department for the sequel to last year’s Suffragettes workshop. Furthering the groundwork that was laid down in the first workshop, this session allowed them to explore their dramatic writing skills alongside physical devising.

Year 9’s India J shares her review of the workshop.

“On 6 November, our School held an inspiring Suffragettes Drama workshop for Year 7, 8, and 9 girls, with some amazing Year 10 girls helping out.

The session focused on the story of the Suffragettes and how Emmeline Pankhurst and the Suffragettes fought fearlessly for women to gain the right to vote.

The workshop was very moving and brought all the women in the room together in a truly empowering way. Part of the session involved writing speeches using phrases that began with “We will…” and “We will not…”. We wrote as many as we could in three minutes, then worked in pairs to choose ten of our favourite phrases. Using these phrases, we created freezeframes that featured the lines we had written.

At the end, everyone shared their performances, and some amazing and powerful work was showcased, leaving us all inspired by the Suffragettes strength and unity.”