You don’t have to take the conventional route.”Īsked whether he thought the school’s success could be replicated in the state school system, Baugh said: “It’s very hard because of the resourcing, and there’s an obsession with Sats, which seem to be the only measure of whether a school is deemed to be successful or not. If you want to be an actor or actress, that’s OK. “If you want to be a young comedian, a young Jack Whitehall, go on and do it. It’s more that the school teaches them that it’s OK to have a go, it’s OK not to follow convention. “We’ve some great drama teachers,” said Baugh, who has been head since 2002, “but I don’t think it’s that particularly which allows children to develop in this area. Other famous alumni – or “eminent Dragons” as the school puts it – who have made careers on both stage and screen include Harry Potter star Emma Watson, comedian Jack Whitehall, Pirates of the Caribbean actor Jack Davenport, BBC crime series Silent Witness actor Tom Ward, Max Irons (the actor son of Jeremy), stage and screen actor Christopher Cazenove, and Hugh Dancy, star of US TV series Hannibal. Term fees at Dragon school are £9,340 for boarders and £6,480 for day pupils.

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