Children and Teen classes

These are private group classes for children 10 years and older in speech and drama.  The classes aim to develop confident speaking and presentation skills through specialist training which involves fun creative voice, speech, process drama and communication activities.

Prospective students are interviewed and, if successful, placed with a suitable group of 2/3 participants. These classes run during school terms only. Each group works towards a Speech New Zealand or Trinity Guildhall London certificate examination in speech and drama.


End-of-year devised performance

In term 4, students can work towards an end-of-year student devised show which is performed in a Wellington theatre.  In 2009 the End-of-Year Performance was "The Festival of Epiphanies."  


Students star in television dramas

Some of Diane's students have had lead roles in television dramas.  Georgia Rippin can be seen as the narrator on the home page of timetrackers website http://timetrackers.tv/cast/narrator/


Student champions

Past and present students have made some impressive wins lately:

  • Rayhan Langdana won the NZ Human Rights Commission - Race Unity Speech Award 2009
  • Rayhan spoke at the Human Rights awards evening at Te Papa on Monday 24 August 2009 and received a standing ovation!  Read the article below...
  • Maria English won the World School's Debating Championship in Athens early in 2009 and won the world championship for the Cambridge AS Level English Literature.  Please see Maria's testimonial.

 For more information please contact Voice and Performance.