PQA Colchester

The team loved learning all about ’s next West End show, Lights, Camera, Zapped, which ALL Academies will be performing at His Majesty’s Theatre in 2027!

One of the best parts of the day was finding Aimee, our former Green group mentor, stood centre stage at the beginning of the day! Aimee worked with us in 2021 and 2022 before training at Rose Bruford, where she now teaches dance. Rosie B is also the place that studied acting alongside a pretty cool dude who would get up super early to straighten his hair before class…

It’s really lovely to feel part of something bigger at PQA’s training days - finding a sense of belonging is a huge reason why our members stay for so long - and hearing all about Aimee’s journey since she left makes me feel proud and inspired. She won’t be the only former student to find work and a sense of purpose after taking developing her passion for theatre through PQA. Who is going to follow in her footsteps?!

There’s room enough for all of us on this stage!

🤔 Why have you sent your children to for ELEVEN years?!

The answer may surprise you...

Last term feels like a distant memory and the team and I cannot wait to welcome our members back to Academy for the first session of the Summer term!

Cue the ragtime piano... it’s showtime. 🎭✨

🪂 Red group’s Freya is jumping out of a plane tomorrow - don’t tell her to break a leg for this one!

Talk about April Falls…

Freya will be skydiving to raise funds for MacMillan, a charity that is close to her heart. Freya wants to support MacMillan having seen how much the charity supports people living with cancer and their families first hand over the past year.


💚 If you would like to support Freya's skydive for MacMillan, the link to her JustGiving page is below/in bio

https://www.justgiving.com/page/freya-woodward-1?utm_medium=FR&utm_source=WP

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Ever wondered how Ciaran, our Film & TV tutor, approaches directing our members? Keep watching until the end to find out! 👀

We've reached the final week of term and, before the Easter break and we thought it would be fun to reflect on one of this term's most successful projects, 's Five Week Film Challenge. Here are some of the outtakes to our films, which you can watch on YouTube.

We celebrate failing at PQA, not only does it build resilience, but it also encourages further risk taking, which helps our members to develop their confidence. Remember, only through failure we learn to succeed!

If your child wants to come and fail with us - either in front of or behind the camera - then head over to our website (link in bio) and book a full free session for the start of our Summer term. There will be spaces in our Friday Academy for 10-18 year olds and in our Saturday PM Academy for 6-12 year olds.

To the ones who run lines until midnight, offer a chauffeur service straight to stage door, and cheer loudest from the front row!

We talk a lot about finding our voice at . Today, we celebrate the people who nurtured those voices from the very beginning...

Happy Mother’s Day to all who play a maternal role in someone's life —take a bow! We see you and we celebrate you today 🌟

🤘 Who has more fun on a weekend - our members or our tutors?!