Breaking Boundaries : COLINE CADORET
Giving to the community is often thought of as one of life ’ s extra-curricular pleasures . However , for those that are associated with , or are lured to , Win Coll , it is often an inherent and intrinsically unavoidable value , and one which is very much a central part of the school ’ s wider curriculum . Every Monday evening , since arriving at the school in 2012 , Coline Cadoret has been accompanying boys to the Blue Apple Theatre , a theatre company that was set up in 2005 . In that year there was one part-time drama teacher supported by volunteers . By 2014 the organisation had employed its first full-time manager , who would work alongside the company ’ s artistic director , choreographer and administrator . The company is the brainchild of Jane Jessop , who has lived in the area for many years . Her son William left the school in 2001 and has pursued a successful career in writing , directing and film-making . Her other son , Tommy , has starred in performances on stage and screen , having appeared in Casualty , Doctors , and opposite Nicholas Hoult in the BBC drama Coming Down the Mountain . Tommy also happens to be the first actor with Down Syndrome to star in a primetime BBC drama . The Blue Apple Theatre is an award winning endeavour that has truly broken boundaries . Adults with learning difficulties are joined by volunteers to put on productions as taxing as Hamlet , with the veritable ease that comes from a pure love for theatre . In June 2012 the company was named the 1000th winner of the Queen ’ s Award for Voluntary Service . It was that same year that Coline joined the school . Her path having started many miles away , she had studied to become an English teacher in France . Whilst at the University of Bordeaux , she stumbled upon an opportunity to spend some time teaching English at a charming old boarding school , hustled away in the very heart of Hampshire , England . The posting was only for one year , as a conversation class assistant . Almost five years later , she has evidently found it very hard to leave . Upon arriving in the rural English setting , quite contrasted with a Bordeaux university campus , it took some confidence to become wholly immersed in the intricacies of English boarding school life .
44 The Wykeham Journal 2016