Our Drama show is ‘back on the road’! in performance skills. I am not sure who had more butterflies in their stomachs; the actors or the excited audience who knew that they were at last in for a well-overdue performance treat!
It is without question that the last two years have denied the pupils the full, immersive, tangible experience of the performance arts subjects and we are utterly delighted that our children were able to return to this experience, this year.
Following on soon after, the year 7s brought much-anticipated Christmas spirit with Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’. The cast were split into two as we doubled up the roles to give additional performance opportunities. The pupils brought Victorian England alive, maturely delivering the lines with great power, and the live singing, violin playing, and dancing were a joy to behold. Commendations must be given to our two outstanding Scrooges who portrayed Scrooge’s emotional journey so poignantly.
The year 5s kicked off tour year group productions, with the ‘The King’s Sentence’. The pupils arrived at the hall on Monday morning with a hundred questions, highlighting their nervousness as they approached this new, unknown event. Throwing themselves into the challenge with great gusto, it was a joyful, productive week of spontaneous creativity, teamwork and lateral thinking and learning. Every child in the cast is to be commended for their effort, focus, determination to succeed, and growth
Just a few days into the Lent term our year 3s hit the ground running and rehearsed a show of performance poetry and interactive songs and dances. The children’s happiness of exploring and learning rhythms, rhymes and choreography was joyful! Their singing raised the roof of a packed hall and anyone who walked through the hall could not help but smile and even join in! The year 3s have not stopped talking about it and singing the songs since! As the weeks of the Lent term whizzed by, the excitement about the year 6 production was not only bubbling, but almost beginning to boil over. It was impossible to walk down
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