Hurtwood House School

Our Founding Headmaster, Richard Jackson, turns 70 today.Congratulations to him from all of the staff at Hurtwood.

Ex Hurtwood student Ayman Oghanna has had a photograph published on the front page of the New York Times.

Josh recently got in touch to let us know that having finished a 3 month tour of Italy playing the title role in "The King Of Rock - A Musical Celebration of Elvis Presley" he has just heard that he has won the role of Sky in the West End production of Mama Mia starting in June. Congratulations Josh.

The Orpheus Centre offers a big thank you to everyone at Hurtwood House school who have very kindly donated over £3000 worth of technical sound equipment! This will help the students multimedia work as well as the recording of both their performing and musical performances.

The Orpheus Centre is a performing arts centre for young disabled people, generally with physical and/or sensory impairments or learning difficulties. Since we started over 10 years ago, many young people have completed a Learning Programme with us and left us to go to college, live in their own flats and generally live life with a level of independence that they, their parents and social workers say would have been unthinkable without their years at Orpheus.We don't set out to train our students to be actors, singers or musicians. www.orpheus.org.uk

You can currently catch Nikki as last surviving Government Minister Samantha Willis in the second series of the popular BBC drama series "Survivors".