The College year might have only just begun but our Performing Arts Acting students have wasted no time getting stuck in.

Today saw a team of four volunteers put their audio performance skills to the test in the recording studio.

The students will now feature in the College’s latest set of radio adverts, to be aired on Capital FM in the North-east.

“It’s been really good fun,” said former Ian Ramsey student Ellie Garland, 16, who has just started the Level 3 Acting course at Stockton Riverside College. “It’s a good opportunity to do something I haven’t done before. It gives us experience and is something that we can put on our CV.”



For Kieran Dixon, who has just started his second year of the programme, the radio work adds to a host of additional performance opportunities he has taken part in throughout the course, including entertaining children at Billingham Town Council’s Mad Hatter’s Tea Party and performing at Stockton Mayor’s Murder Mystery Night.

The 21-year-old from Billingham said: “It has been a really useful experience and it is good practice for work we might do in the outside world.”

Former Huntcliff school student Audrey Cook, 16, was delighted to get the chance to showcase her skills so early in the course.

She said: “I have been really excited to do this. It is all really good experience.”

While Ben Smith, 16, a former Rye Hills School student, added: “It was quite a big thing to do but a great opportunity at such an early stage.”

The radio sound bites were recorded at SRC Bede Sixth Form's recording studio in Billingham by the College's own former Music Technology student, Callum Rattray, who has now started work as a sound technician at the College.