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Music
What a great musical year our Junior School pupils have had, from beautiful singing in the nursery Nativity, to the most accomplished of performances by our incredible Year 6 instrumentalists at Prizegiving and all the musical marvels in between!
Michaelmas term gave our Prep Choir their first performance in the Harvest festival. We then took part in the whole College Michaelmas Concert at St Martin-in-the-Fields, which was great fun and a wonderful opportunity to see our Senior School friends perform. Our Pre-Prep Choir, not to be outdone, was busy learning some gorgeous Christmas music to sing as part of the KS1 Nativity performance in the Great Hall. Our instrumentalists played beautifully in our November Prep Instrumental Concert and this seems a perfect time to mention what a wonderful and powerful sound our JS Wind Band have made this year. In Lent term we hosted another successful Prep Instrumental Concert and also a Junior School Tea-Time concert in our ‘Ben Chudleigh Recital Room’, which gave our instrumentalists valuable opportunities to perform and our audiences a real treat. Our Year 3, 4 and 5 pupils all took part in their own showcase performances, which included some spectacular singing and dancing and took place in our amazing new theatre. Coming back after the Easter exeat, we practically headed straight into town – to Cadogan Hall, where our Prep Choir performed so well. At the same event, our Year 6 singers sang with the Senior School in a Massed Choir, performing Zadok the Priest – wow, that was a high one (as well as a highlight)! Our Year 6 were busy bees, as they also represented the Junior School with their beautiful choral performance in Southwark Cathedral on Commemoration Day. We rounded off the year with our exciting new Festival event – the ‘Big Summer Sing’, where we had great fun singing alongside pupils from a local primary school and also our Junior School Summer Concert, which included all of our music groups including Prep Strings and a special mention to our Year 2 singers. Well done, Junior School musicians, we are so proud of you all! It is definitely time to have a very well-earned little rest before September!
