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Greek Myths

Congratulations to Year 4 for their outstanding 'Greek Myths' shows. It was wonderful to see them developing their performance skills; projecting their lines, giving great expression with acting and a clear tone with singing, developing teamwork skills and building confidence using the larger theatre space.

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Beacon Voices Sing at Rugby School

Our Upper School Beacon Voices were honoured to be invited to Rugby School to perform with the Rugby School combined choir and baroque orchestra in a stunning rendition of Vivaldi's 'Gloria' and Handel's Coronation Anthem 'Zadok The Priest.'

The boys performed these iconic works of the classical canon with outstanding professionalism and fine musicianship. Well done, boys!

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Frankie from 'West End in Schools' directed our Year 5 boys in four classbased workshops around the famous story of Macbeth. Our boys have studied 'The Scottish Play' in their English and Drama lessons so they impressed Frankie with their prior knowledge of the play and were able to bring the story to life using fun, physical and vocal exercises, getting to grips with the Shakespearean text.

It was fantastic to see how much the boys enjoyed their workshops and to see them working as a team!

Recorder Rapping

Our Year 3 boys made an excellent start with their Recorder Project over the Spring Term. Some of them have developed their knowledge of recorder playing substantially since last year and some have been playing the recorder for the first time! They have had fun recorder rapping and improving their ensemble skills with reading music together.

"Some of them have developed their knowledge of recorder playing substantially since last year and some have been playing the recorder for the first time!"

Our Year 7 boys worked on their skills of persuasion in English lessons for our Victorian Waxworks Event. They researched the famous Victorian they had been assigned, wrote and delivered a speech arguing their right to remain in the waxworks museum instead of being melted down for a more contemporary figure, such as Ed Sheeran! They created information plaques too which supported their deliveries.

Great fun was had by all, the speeches were of a very high quality and the boys learnt some very important skills at the same time!