Lights, camera, action!

STUDENTS TO STAR IN NEW ADVERTS

FOUR students from New Bridge School are set to make the leap from theatre to screen.

The youngsters have been enlisted by the Department of Health to star in a series of short adverts for a new “Valuing People” national website.

The service will offer a central information point for young people and adults with disabilities to get information on housing, benefits and health.

The students, Jasmin Swindells, Jamie Teale, Nathan Walker and Rebekah Hill will travel to London next week to work in a TV studio.

They were selected for the task as thespians from the school’s Lumenus theatre company.

Lumenus is a full-time performing arts-based course for 14 to 19-year-olds, and is nationally recognised as being outstanding in positively promoting young people with disabilities through arts-based community projects.

The youngsters bound for London said they were “extremely excited” to have been chosen to represent young people with disabilities and learning difficulties across the UK.

They are among the first to take the course, which has proved a great success, and many opportunities and careers have already been offered to the young people involved.

Earlier this year Lumenus student Leon Harrop appeared as a leading character in the ITV drama “The Street”.

Students also worked on a touring production called “The Fight,” which has been performed to employers across the region to convey frustrations felt by young people with disabilities when applying for a job.