House Drama Finals 2025

Bishop Luffa’s House Drama Festival was a huge success again this year with a varied showcase of work achieved across all eight houses. All students involved showed great commitment to their house to come together and put on a play. The finalists were, King House with ‘Kes’, Burrows House with ‘Winnie the pooh’ Sherborne House with ‘The Gruffalo’ and Andrewes House with ‘Peter Pan’.  

The Festival is a celebration of performance work with sixth formers directing students from Years 7-10 in a short play as part of a competition judged by a professional from the theatre industry. 

Our judge this year was Sophie Hobson.  Sophie is the Creative Associate at Chichester Festival Theatre, having   previously worked at the RSC as their Learning Programme Manager.  Before this Sophie was a freelancer both as a workshop facilitator and actor, working at the National, Polka Theatre, Stephen Joseph and the Old Vic, among others.  Sophie’s feedback recognised the very high standard of performance work achieved by all three finalists.

The overall winner was King House with ‘Kes’, a story following the story of a neglected boy, who is bullied and abused but finds solace and purpose in raising a kestrel chick.  Through this bond he discovers a sense of belonging and finds an escape from his bleak reality.  It is a timeless story portraying the struggles of adolescence, and about the importance of focus and purpose.  King House directors were Olivia Dickens and Asha Christie-Verma from 12King.

The Tech of the Year was awarded to Austin Belderson (10Wilson) and Nathan White (9Ridgeway) for their professional approach to lighting over the year. 

It was a wonderful evening of Bishop Luffa Drama with a great response from the audience and tension during the judge’s feedback at the end. 

Nicky Furnell, Team Leader of Drama