DRAMA students celebrated winning a cabinet-full of silverware at the Blackburn Festival of Drama.
Four pupils from the Speakability School in Lawley Road, Blackburn, swept the board winning nine trophies between them.
Rebecca Jackson, 11, won the Tony Billington trophy for verse speaking, while Megan Thompson, 14, won the Newman Slipper Trophy and the Maud Ferrier trophy for verse speaking and Samantha Bell, 16, won the Greta Wilkinson trophy. Cambridge University hopeful Gemma Stirrup, 18, who attends Westholme School, won five trophies for her performances of poetry and Shakespeare.
Shirley Watson, Speakability teacher, said Gemma had been accepted for a one-year course at Oxford School of Drama.
She then hopes to take up a place at Cambridge University, depending on her A-level results.
Shirley said: "Gemma is a joy to teach. We were delighted she was accepted at drama school."
Pictured are trophy winners (from the left) Rebecca Jackson, Gemma Stirrup, Samantha Bell and Megan Thomson.
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