Forest School in Snaresbrook was chosen as the backdrop for Never Let Me Go, starring Keira Knightley

A SNARESBROOK school enjoyed a touch of Hollywood glamour when its grounds were chosen as a backdrop for a film staring Keira Knightly.

It is not every day that a film crew comes to the classroom, but that is exactly what happened recently at Forest School in College Place when the team behind the scenes of upcoming smash Never Let Me Go rolled up for a shoot.

Headed by the director of One Hour Photo, Mark Romanek, the movie is based on a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro that tells the moving tale of how Ruth, played by Keira Knightley, spends her childhood in an isolated English boarding school where humans are cloned to provide donor organs for transplants.

Although Miss Knightly was not present at the school, her co-stars were, including Carey Mulligan, who also acts along side Johnny Depp in the new film Public Enemies and Andrew Garfield, who starred in The other Boleyn Girl with Scarlett Johansson.

The film is due for release in 2010.