All specialist schools agree to work in partnership with other local schools to share facilities, special projects and good practice.
KEVICC, as an Arts College, works closely with the twelve primary schools forming the Totnes Learning Community, and with St James's School in Exeter.
 

Opportunities for KEVICC students

 
KEVICC students have worked in workshops with many professional groups in recent years, often immediately before a public performance by the group in our Ariel Theatre.
The opportunities include all three performing arts departments – dance, drama and music – and offer real enhancement to the KEVICC curriculum.
 
Dance company EDge, the postgraduate performance company of London Contemporary Dance School, make an annual visit to KEVICC, with workshops and a show.
 
 
Forkbeard Fantasy are pioneers of cross-artform multimedia theatre, and they always bring their current show to perform in our Theatre.
 
Music students have had many opportunities to work with jazz sextet 6pac
 
 
and with Joe Broughton and his Birmingham Conservatoire Folk Ensemble
 
 
both in school and during the Dartington Summer Youth Programme.
Matthew Barley – described as probably the world's most adventurous cellist – came into school and worked with music & music technology students, immediately before a performance in the Great Hall at Dartington.
 
 
Dartington Plus gave Year 10 students the amazing opportunity to work with Orlando Gough's group The Shout. They rehearsed and performed as part of their a cappella choral theatre show Fingerprint.
 
 

Dartington Summer Youth Programme

 
As part of the Dartington Plus partnership, we are able to offer workshop and performance opportunities to our students, and for many years the Dartington Summer Youth Programme has been on the KEVICC site. This year DYSP moves to the University of Exeter, with the opportunity for residential accommodation, but KEVICC are planning to maintain their links with the programme.
 
 

SaMS

 
SaMS, our Saturday music school, was originally set up with Youth Music funding to provide ensemble opportunities and individual lessons for all children within the local catchment area. It has been hugely successful with over one hundred students attending each week to work in fifteen different workshops.
 
Workshops include brass, choir, drum/rhythm, folk, guitar, jazz, percussion, strings and theory and there are individual lessons offered on many instruments.
 
 
Joanna MacGregor is Patron of SaMS and visited one Saturday morning before a performance at Dartington later that day.
 
 

Links with primary schools

 
Because of our professional theatre facilities we have seating for an large audience, and are able to invite children from all our Learning Community primary schools to a performance of our annual Performing Arts Show – Les Misérables 2007; Into the Woods 2008; HAiR 2009; West Side Story 2010.
We also make our Theatre available for our feeder primary schools to use for their own annual school shows.
 

Our Community

 
KEVICC students host local care group Totnes Caring's Christmas party each year and students prepare refreshments; welcome the visitors; serve them with food and drink and provide entertainment.