As with music and art, drama is part of the core curriculum up to Year 9 and may be studied at GCSE; Theatre Studies is a popular choice at A Level. Girls in the Senior School have the option to visit numerous professional productions on the London stage.

Drama also flourishes in extra curricular lessons and clubs. The Junior Department stages regular productions and in the Senior School there are two main productions a year, enabling all age groups to perform. Joint productions are staged from time to time with boys from the Royal Grammar School. Recent productions have included ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, ‘Our House’, ‘Tom’s Midnight Garden’ and ‘Oliver Twist’.

Group speech and drama lessons are available in the Junior Department, both individual and group lessons are available in the Senior School and many girls take the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) examinations. Each year several girls attain the coveted gold medal in acting or the speaking of verse and prose.

Debating is a popular activity amongst girls in the Senior School. Younger pupils practise their rhetoric in competitions with local schools; by the time they reach the Sixth Form teams are participating in national competitions such as the Observer Mace. In recent years, girls from Tormead have consistently won through to debate at the Oxford Union in the finals of the National Schools’ competition.