BELVEDERE: Teen drama award winner ends up in Hollyoaks (From News Shopper)

BELVEDERE: Teen drama award winner ends up in Hollyoaks

8:30am Friday 12th March 2010 in

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A BEXLEY student has become the envy of her schoolmates after spending a day on the set of the television teen soap, Hollyoaks.

Erith School pupil Simone Capp won the trip to the Lime Pictures studio in Liverpool, where Hollyoaks is filmed, in the London Student Awards 2009.

Simone, 15, from Belvedere, won the drama category, which was sponsored by Lime Pictures, with a film script she wrote.

Based on the theme of the film Groundhog Day, the script is about a girl who cannot get to grips with school until the day of an important exam.

But as she wakes up every morning to find the day constantly repeating itself, she gradually finds herself able to revise properly.

Simone said: “I was really surprised when I found out I had won.

“I wanted to make my film scrip different, so I took the theme My School, My City and Me (the theme of this year’s awards) and turned it on its head.

She explained: “I made it about the morals of teenage society and the things that can happen in schools.”

Simone even included a scene from her favourite Shakespeare play, The Taming of the Shrew.

The trip to the Hollyoaks set was an ideal prize for someone who wants to be an actor.

Simone said: “I do acting both inside and outside of school and am a member of a drama club in London.

“I had never been on a television set and the cast were so nice and down-to-earth and it made me see acting is an achievable career for ordinary people like me.”

The London Student Awards celebrate a variety of achievements of young people studying in the capital’s state secondary schools, and are part of the London Challenge campaign launched in 2003 to transform London’s secondary schools.