Drama and Music
The school organises a number of performances each year, and these have included Oliver!, Oklahoma!, Cabaret, Les Misérables and Into the Woods. CLFS was one of the first schools in the country to obtain rights to Cameron Mackintosh's Les Misérables. The latest addition to this list is Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, which was performed in December 2009 and received well by independent critics. The senior school musical for 2011 is "Evita".The school also gives the pupils a chance to learn instruments inside school, and most go on to do ABRSM exams, and some pupils have even gone on to doing the diploma, aged only fourteen.
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