Creative Arts 

Music, Art and Drama thrive at Rishworth both as out-of-class activities and as academic subjects. All three can be studied to G.C.S.E. and "A" level, practised recreationally, or both.

Music

A team of highly qualified specialist staff provides tuition in all orchestral and brass instruments as well as in other disciplines, including piano, guitar, drum-kit, singing, percussion, organ and electronic keyboard.

Our pupils’ success in Trinity College Music Examinations and their achievements regionally and nationally are quite outstanding.

The teaching of Music has been much enhanced by the establishment of a music ICT studio where students can develop their composition skills. There is a Senior Choir (four-part), a Junior Choir (unison and two-part), a Concert Band, a Dance Orchestra, and various small ensembles covering every musical family. Instrumental players are always deeply involved in the musical festivals, concerts and recitals which are held every year, and which are of an exceptionally high standard.  In recent years there have been music tours to Denmark, France, Austria, Czech Republic and Italy, and several students have been selected to play at regional and national levels.  This includes the winning instrumentalist of 'Young Prodigies' on national television.

Art

The fine quality of Art at Rishworth is in evidence in the Department and is on display around the School. Students gain genuine fulfilment by expressing themselves in drawing, painting, three-dimensional work, and other media. The keenest artists go on to study at some of the country’s most prestigious Art Colleges.

Drama

Drama is a popular and extremely successful subject in its own right. The opportunity to perform is given excellent foundation at Heathfield where productions are mounted at least twice a year. Rishworth past productions have included Grease and A Midsummer Night's Dream. We have a well resourced Performing Arts Centre where the senior students have staged many challenging productions.  These have included Accidental Death of an Anarchist, In Camera, The Trojan Women and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as well as many one act plays devised by the students.