Heart of Crosby - Festival Guide

Sacred Heart Catholic College

Heart of Crosby 4th July - 15th July 2016

Festival guide Art • Drama • Music • Fashion • Fun

Welcome For many years Sacred Heart has developed a reputation for excellence in the arts with our drama and music shows, and our annual art exhibition.

During the festival we will also have a series of speakers from our community visiting the school to talk about their careers and answer questions.

The Heart of Crosby festival over 12 days (4th July - 15th July) is a celebration of our students’ talents, and also a way of inspiring our young people as they step towards adult life.

You can follow the latest news about the Heart of Crosby festival via our Twitter and also a special blog: heartofcrosbyfestival.wordpress.com

This booklet gives you a flavour of what’s on offer for our students, pupils from other schools and also the public.

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Heart of glass Glass artist Julie Langan is busy working on a majestic piece of stained glass to mark the Heart of Crosby festival.

Each panel represents our local primary schools and parishes and sends the message that when we unite, we create the ‘Heart of Crosby.’

The colourful artwork symbolises the community that surrounds Sacred Heart - the people and places that we embrace.

Julie, from Cedar Galleries, near Ormskirk, also made the glass art that adorns the reception of our new Sixth Form Centre.

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Rags to Riches - all day

Music Concert - all day

Fashion show by Y9 and y12 pupils with A Midsummer Night’s Dream theme featuring drama and dance.

Enjoy the thrills and spills of the cat walk!

• Quintet - Viva la Vida and Halo • Choir - Bring Him Home, Love The One You’re With, All Things Bright And Beautiful • Aimee McQueen - solo vocal • Nathan Sanderson - piano • Danielle Thomas - singer

Lunch - 11.30-1.15

Art - all day

Summer BBQ with burgers, hot dogs, chips and ice cream. During lunch there will be activities for pupils to get involved in, such as Wipe Out, Ultimate Duel and an assault course

Take a look at amazing art by our College students PLUS a chance to be part of a giant human art installation as we create a ‘heart’ featuring hundreds of pupils

Festival fun Our all-day event on Thursday 7th July is designed to give students from local primary schools the chance to explore and learn about our College.

We’ve got so much lined up - from a warm welcome at our school gates by stilt walkers through to the finale when pupils will team up to form a giant heart outside our main entrance.

You can see (above) some of the other activities we’ve got lined up.

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Schools include our partner schools Great Crosby, Ursuline and St Edmund’s and St Thomas’ Catholic Primary School.

• Our young musicians will be staging African drumming workshops

Musical maestros As part of the festival, our talented musicians will be putting on an array of performances and workshops.

Here’s a rundown of the musical events: Tuesday 5th July - we will have our Singing Sherlock performance, where Sacred Heart’s Y7 students join forces with our three partner schools to present a vocal concert under the leadership of Stuart Overington, vocal animateur for Sefton Music Hub. Thursday 7th July - we will have two concerts taking place celebrating the musical talents of past and present Sacred Heart pupils - see p3.

Friday 8th July - our Sixth Form musicians will be assisting with an afternoon of African drumming workshops for Year 4 pupils, visiting from Waterloo Primary School.

Wednesday 13th July - our Sixth Form musicians will be assisting with African Drumming workshops for pupils of St Edmund’s and St Thomas’ Primary.

Thursday 14th July - Clubbercise, a chance to dance your way to fitness.

There is certainly a lot of musical talent here at Sacred Heart and we are very much looking forward to celebrating this with our visiting primaries and the public.

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• A stunning portrait by Amy Baden, Year 13

Art showcase Our annual art, design and technology exhibition provides a showcase for the work by our talented GCSE and A Level students.

This year’s exhibition will take place in the Prep Hall on Tuesday 5th July from 4.30pm till 7pm.

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There will be refreshments served and live musical performances from our String Quintet.

The exhibition continues for College students throughout the Heart of Crosby festival

• Pupils from local primary schools including Waterloo Primary School (pictured) will see their handiwork featured in the fashion show

Rags to riches Our popular annual Rags to Riches extravaganza has the theme of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ this year to mark the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare.

It will see some of our talented pupils performing scenes from the play, in among a catwalk of outfits made from ‘upcycled' garments and recycled materials.

Pupils from some of our partner schools helped with the costumes And, former pupil Jane Caulfield, now a professional dancer, is set to return to College to perform in the show.

The show will be staged for the public on Friday 8th July at 6.30pm. Tickets are £2 (adults) and £1 (children).

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Art • Drama • Music • Fashion • Fun