Acting 6th form

[Starbrightls]

Does anyone know of any acting or Btech acting 6th forms for entry 2025? Everything we look at seems to be MA acting or Btech MT?

Many thanks

[Cam12345]

Hi do you have a particular location in mind or would you child be happy to move away? There are several BTech acting courses around I know of

[K8t]

Does anyone know of any acting or Btech acting 6th forms for entry 2025? Everything we look at seems to be MA acting or Btech MT?

Many thanks

LIPA do MT and Acting BTech. DD did their MT course there.

Not sure where you live, but there are a few students who ‘live in’, in halls during term time too.

[biscuitsneeded]

There's an Acting strand at Arts Ed 6th form, if you can afford the eye-watering fees. I believe there is one at the Brit School too but you need to live in the right postcode. There may be something at BOA and SOTE in Birmingham too.

However (and this is just my opinion of course!) I'm not sure it's necessary or even desirable to do pure Acting at 16 - 18. I can understand why it makes sense for MT, as you do 2 years of intense training and hopefully make huge progress in all 3 skills and are then in a strong position for auditions for post 18. But for Acting I'm not convinced the pure acting 6th formers have a better hit rate for Acting degree places than candidates from other backgrounds. Those degrees are looking for potential and talent, not the finished article. Most crucially though, I think actors need to be curious about the world they live in, have the ability to use critical thinking skills, be articulate etc. I think a more general education is actually beneficial for that, especially if you're in the state sector. The post 18 courses want mature young people with a broad range of life experience, and I wonder if specialising at 16 (especially if that means paying a lot and being in a socially rarified environment) is actually too narrow an experience, however good the teaching. Maybe if it depends what you want it for? If the DC is hoping to skip post-18 training altogether, maybe it makes sense.

[lotsolaffs]

There's an Acting strand at Arts Ed 6th form, if you can afford the eye-watering fees. I believe there is one at the Brit School too but you need to live in the right postcode. There may be something at BOA and SOTE in Birmingham too.

However (and this is just my opinion of course!) I'm not sure it's necessary or even desirable to do pure Acting at 16 - 18. I can understand why it makes sense for MT, as you do 2 years of intense training and hopefully make huge progress in all 3 skills and are then in a strong position for auditions for post 18. But for Acting I'm not convinced the pure acting 6th formers have a better hit rate for Acting degree places than candidates from other backgrounds. Those degrees are looking for potential and talent, not the finished article. Most crucially though, I think actors need to be curious about the world they live in, have the ability to use critical thinking skills, be articulate etc. I think a more general education is actually beneficial for that, especially if you're in the state sector. The post 18 courses want mature young people with a broad range of life experience, and I wonder if specialising at 16 (especially if that means paying a lot and being in a socially rarified environment) is actually too narrow an experience, however good the teaching. Maybe if it depends what you want it for? If the DC is hoping to skip post-18 training altogether, maybe it makes sense.

Agree with all of this. From what I know now ,there is no rush, although yours may think there is.
Try NT, local productions, even Camp America, Peer Productions is great, I know 2 who have successfully worked with them.
Mine was offered one of the seven out of area places ( 6 years ago ) at the Brit School,worth a try.
Where are you located?

[MTEast]

My daughter is off to Arts1 in Milton Keynes to do MT, but I know they also do an acting Btech. The standard of stuff we have seen from their acting students is really good.

[lawn]

Not sure I'm convinced that for an acting degree they are (just) looking for potential and talent, maybe if your DC has a USP and/or is an under-represented category but acting degrees at drama school can be difficult to get onto especially straight from sixth form, for a start they have few fewer spaces than MT courses usually do. Yes they do like life experience but at 18 you've got the same chance of having that if you've done an acting course or A levels after GCSEs. I can see the benefit of keeping options open because what if said child has a last minute change of heart and decides to study something else. Regardless what I think is needed whichever they study is a good calibre of acting teaching whether that is at college or outside. Someone to run through monologue choices and the delivery of them, whether this can be found at sixth form colleges is going to be dependant on where you live/DC can commute to or if they're in the position to be able to move away to access one.