From canvas to stage: Warminster School pupils celebrate Summer Arts Festival

This year’s fringe festival of workshops and activities ranged from parkour and tie-dying, to new theatre productions

15th July 2025, Warminster, South West: Over 200 pupils at Warminster School celebrated the end of term during this year’s 2025 Summer Creative Arts Festival with a variety of fun and inspiring activities to spark creativity.

With 18 new workshops this year including percussion, collage making and Warhammer, along with pupils’ new theatre productions, year 7-10 and Lower Sixth pupils all tried something new, discovered hidden talents and joined together across different age groups to have fun.

A number of workshops were especially popular with the pupils including parkour, kitchen chemistry, dance, stage combat and balloon-making. The pupils also enjoyed their own performances of Animal Farm and Education, Education, Education.

Says Nicola Rogers, Assistant Head (Co-Curricular), Warminster School on this year’s festival: “With a fantastic variety of workshops on offer, every pupil had the opportunity to try something new, explore their interests and develop new skills – it was a joyful and inspiring celebration of creativity across our school community.

“A real highlight this year was seeing some of the workshops organised and led by pupils themselves, showing their leadership, initiative and passion for the arts. It was also particularly heartening to see the different age groups working so well together, showing courage, and most importantly, having fun!”

Over 25 workshops were held over two days, with other activities including Corps of Drums, where American-style drumlines performed together, Bandeoke, where participants played in a band for the first time, and Forest Arts, which used sounds of nature to create nature-inspired artefacts.

The popular ‘Three Witty Fools’ theatre group of three pupils also took to the stage for the final time before leaving Warminster and performed their sell-out show from last summer’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Comments Huw Jones, Deputy Head: “We pride ourselves on being a community of opportunity, and the Summer Festival is a vibrant embodiment of this.

“The Festival really offered something for everyone - uniting our community in curiosity, creativity, and celebration. It was a festival to remember, and we’re already looking forward to what next year will bring!”

Adds Addison, Year 8: “The Summer Festival is so much fun. I loved the choices of things we could do - I found it really hard to choose just a few options! My favourite was pyrography because I learned a new skill that you wouldn't normally do at school. Some of the productions were great too, especially the Three Witty Fools, it was so funny!' 

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About Warminster School 

Warminster School is a co-educational day and boarding school for pupils aged 2 to 18, with community at its core. It offers both A-Levels and the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma at Sixth Form, and is among the few schools in the UK to provide the IB Career-related Programme. The school also offers extensive co-curricular programmes, including a diverse range of sports, outdoor pursuits such as mountain biking, Ten Tors, Duke of Edinburgh, and a comprehensive arts and music programme designed to encourage all pupils to ‘have a go’. With the school’s mission “To develop and nurture rounded individuals with a love of learning and strong moral values, within a supportive and inspiring community,” Warminster focuses on developing young people to foster self-confidence and high self-esteem.