The BRIT school in Croydon, South London, is no ordinary school.
You won’t see whole classes struggling to stay awake in French lessons.
You won’t find the students at this school hanging around the park (7)
__ K. when they should be in class__. You’re more likely to find
students mixing tracks, practicing their dance routines or doing voice
exercises. Homework could be anything from writing an episode of a soap
(8) __I. or editing a pop video _ to choreographing a dance. (9) __F.
hard as it may be to believe __, this is a school which kids actually
want to go. There are over 750 rising stars between the ages of 14 and
19 at the BRIT school. Everyone under 16 studies normal GCSEs (10) __C. along with performing art qualifications __.
After 16 you can do vocational courses and A-levels in media-related
subjects (11) ___ G. like film production ___. As it’s the UK’s non-fee
paying entertainment school, competition for places is tough. The
children have summer holidays like other kids, but, (12) ___B. after the
holidays ___, the summer is busier than ever. Each year, hundreds of
teenagers, sponsored by Sky Television, follow a three-day residential
course at the school, and some of these may join the school as full-time
students (13) __ H. making it in the pop world __. Walk
into the school on a typical day in the summer and you will find an
astonishing range of activities going on. There may be the sound of
bongos coming from the World Music class, (14) __A. a talk show going on
in the TV studio __ or a group of students gathered in a recording
studio. Everywhere you look, (15) __D. you find fascination and
concentration __ – why couldn’t school always be like this.