Articulate Drama School & Casting Agency

Horsforth Drama Classes

At Articulate Drama School in Horsforth, we offer dynamic and engaging screen acting and drama classes designed for children and teens to explore their creativity and build confidence. Our classes take place at Horsforth School, where young people develop essential performance skills in a supportive and inclusive environment.

What Classes are Available

Not sure if our classes are right for your child? Come along to a free session and see what makes us special.

After that, classes cost £40 per month (paid monthly across all 12 months). 

Inters

School Years: Year 3 to 5

Seniors

School Years: Year 6 to Year 8

Advanced

School Years: Year 9 to Year 13

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What We Teach

Our classes teach children and teenagers the skills they need to thrive in life. The drama classes are designed to equip your child with confidence, the ability to stand up and speak in front of an audience, to put forward their points clearly and intelligently, to comprehensive screen acting skills, covering everything from the basics to advanced techniques.

Juniors and Inters

Our classes for those in Reception to Year 5 focus on learning valuable core life skills including having confidence and self belief, the ability to speak in front of others and raise points clearly and articulately, to use their imaginations and creativity, to work with others and form friendships, to celebrate the success’ of one another and to learn empathy and emotional intelligence through thoughts, feelings, poems, scripts and stories. We do all of this in a fun, exciting way and our children leave our classes filled with self-belief with huge smiles on their faces.

Seniors and Advanced

Our classes for those students in year 6 and above, is where we get a little more serious while still focusing on our core values taught in the younger classes. You can expect to be working with scripts from television and film covering serious emotional scenes as well as adventure, action and comedy. Our tutors use audition scripts from shows like Waterloo Road, Adolescence and major movies. The Articulate teachers work with students on acting style and delivery of lines, use of pause, reaction, creating light and shade in the performance, making the performance varied and interesting, naturalism, use of accents and nuanced delivery. How to create and film a perfect self-tape audition is covered regularly, as well as improvisation. The classes are described as having a real ‘buzz’ in them- where everyone is welcomed, accepted and everyone is there for the same reasons. Students leave the class with a real excitement and passion and friendships are often continued outside of the classes. 

Caroline Chapman
Caroline Chapman⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
My daughter joined about a year ago after a really difficult time at school, when her confidence was genuinely at rock bottom. What’s happened since has been quietly extraordinary. She’s more comfortable in herself, has made numerous friends, and has even taken part in filming for a couple of productions which is something unexpected that I would never have imagined for her back then. This hasn’t just been about drama; it’s helped her grow as a person. The fees are excellent value, she looks forward to every session, and as a parent I’m incredibly grateful for the role this school has played in her life. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend it.
Holly
Holly⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
My daughter loves her class. She gets to meet different people of varying ages and her confidence has blossomed. She has auditioned for lots of shows and when she’s been unsuccessful her resilience to try again is amazing - she owes this to Articulate!
Beverley Silver
Beverley Silver⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
My daughter started classes at Ilkley and enjoyed the experience so much we signed her up to Horsforth classes to further boost her skills and inner confidence. We was also keen to choose classes with elements of discipline and lots of fun. In our opinion the team are warm, professional and inviting and she always looks forward to the professionally lead classes…Highly recommended!!
Charles Johnson
Charles Johnson⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
A great drama school which my 12 yr old daughter loves. Very helpful and responsive back room staff as well.
Emma Trowsdale
Emma Trowsdale⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
My daughter joined Articulate this year and has settled into classes really quickly - she always has a great time and is learning lots, thank you

Where our Horsforth Classes are Based

Class Uniform

To maintain a sense of professionalism and unity, all students must wear an official Articulate t-shirt to classes. Wearing the uniform helps foster focus, discipline, and a sense of belonging, which are key elements in the performing arts.

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