Terrible School. Do Not Attend!!!! I attended Barbara Speake Stage School for numerous years. The
Terrible School. Do Not Attend!!!! I attended Barbara Speake Stage School for numerous years. The school is 100% lacking in academics, to say the teachers are awful is an understatement, they do not care in the slightest about their students education. The school owner Miss Speake has a poor attitude to any negative criticism made. Her response to the poor academic teaching is, ‘you get what you pay for’ which is the total wrong attitude to have. The artistic side of the school is standard, nothing special, very basic. The same dances get taught to different classes constantly, and the steps are always the same, nothing new is ever added. The worst choice I ever made was to attend this school, the school itself is extremely dated and in need of some serious work. The atmosphere when you enter the building is automatically tense and uncomfortable. The office staff are totally clueless, and never succeed at fulfilling you’re needs. This school caused me to lose so much confidence in myself, and also made me so unhappy. Do not be fooled by what this school tells you, it is not the ‘happy’ family friendly school that everyone makes out for it to be.