(Debaters with Che, Julie and Chris Johnson)   Che Wigfield-Turner, first-year BTEC Performing Arts Acting student at Pendleton Sixth Form College, pulls off not one, but two outstanding debates including students and local celebrities, Julie Hesmondhalgh and Maxine Peak. Students from the performing arts department have been practising their live-action debating whilst exploring the important topic, is the […]

Pendleton Sixth Form College has been placed within the top 10% of colleges nationally for achievement rates. If that’s not reason enough to study at the college, here are 10 more reasons to study at Pendleton: 1) Outstanding Results Pendleton prides itself on the outstanding results achieved year in and year out by their incredibly talented […]

 Staff and students at Pendleton and Eccles Sixth Form Colleges are celebrating outstanding results on advanced level courses. More than 39 subjects boasted a 100% pass rate with exceptional numbers achieving high grades. Head of Pendleton Sixth Form College, Kimberley Cash said: “We are delighted with the excellent A-level results our students have achieved this […]

Kira McPherson, who has just completed her studies on the Performing Arts Extended Diploma in Dance Course at Pendleton Sixth Form College, has been chosen as the first recipient of the Manchester Arena Memorial Award and scholarship from the Soroptimist International of Manchester Organisation.   Soroptimist International Manchester is part of Soroptimist International of Great Britain […]

It’s been 10-years since Pendleton Sixth Form College’s largest theatre, The Eccleston, was officially opened. To celebrate they are taking things back to where they began, with a performance of the world-renowned, ‘Les Misérables’, the first show to be performed in the theatre a decade ago. Named after one of Salford’s greatest actors, Christopher Eccleston, the […]

Tom Glynn-Carney, former Pendleton Performing Arts student, made his big-screen debut in the box office hit, Dunkirk. Starring alongside the likes of Tom Hardy, Harry Styles and Cillian Murphy, last summer. (Photo credit: Matt Crockett) Since then Tom has landed a leading role on the West End’s, The Ferryman, and a starring role in the BBC […]

27 April 2018 Pendleton Sixth Form College proudly presents an original dance production – Wonder Women: Origins of a Legend. This is an exciting and fast-paced production from the dance students within the nationally acclaimed Pendleton Performing Arts Department, and the show is a must-see. It tells the story of how Wonder Woman came to […]

Former Pendleton Sixth Form College Performing Arts student, and Emmerdale star, Joe Gill, shows current students the ropes. Joe, who studied BTEC Performing Arts between 2011 and 2013, left college and walked into a successful career on one of the nations most beloved soaps. But, this week he was back where it all began to […]

Pendleton Sixth Form College’s Performing Arts Department welcomes back Neil G Bennett as the new Head of ‘The Centre of Excellence for Performing Arts’, and college alumni Joseph Meighan who has been appointed Associate Theatre Director.  The department is nationally acclaimed for producing some of the finest performers in the business. They are known for […]

Three Pendleton Sixth Form College students are accepted into the Guildford School of Acting, one of the most highly regarded theatre schools in the UK. Lucca Chadwick-Patel, Owen Bolton and Zachariah Frieze have all been accepted into the prestigious school, situated at the University of Surrey. Lucca, former Culcheth High School pupil, said: “I’m absolutely […]