INDIAN MUSIC WORKSHOP
SCIENCE LIVE!
Science Live! On Wednesday 26th January, Miss Smith and Miss Massey took a group of 14 year 7 and year 8 students from STEM Club to St Peter’s Roman Catholic High School in Manchester to watch a Flash Bang Show by Dr Frank Muir from The University of Manchester and in association with Astra Zeneca. The show was titled ‘Solids, Liquids and Gases’ and observed by all of St Peter’s year 7s, along with a group from Loretto High School from Chorlton-cum-Hardy. The show consisted of many exciting experiments that explained to the students the changes between a solid, liquid and gas, including colour changing liquids, making foam, exploding balloons, freezing rubber and bananas in dry-ice and shooting rockets into the audience.
Sounds of India We have been very fortunate to welcome renowned local musician Rakesh Joshi into school for a series of Indian music workshops. Rakesh Joshi is the artistic director of Raga Jyoti, an ensemble of 25 talented Indian and European musicians who play traditional and modern Indian classical music. Sounds of India has been a musical passport where Rakesh came into school on Friday afternoons for a series of exciting workshops exploring Indian music. So far, the students have learned how to play the harmonium - a type of keyboard instrument with bellows and two types of drums – Dhol and Madal. The workshops will culminate in a schools’ performance at iconic Manchester music venue ‘Band on the Wall’ and we look forward to sharing details of this with you in a later edition.
The students loved the show and showed their science understanding when they confidently put their hands up to answer a question. The group of students represented Our Lady’s Roman Catholic High School extremely well with comments from other staff members from the other schools commenting on how well they were behaved and how smart they looked. STEM Club is on a Tuesday after school in F1.
Bronnie Rocks! On 16th December 2021, Mrs Gill arranged for an exciting, upcoming new artist called Bronnie to visit school to perform exclusively for our year 8 students.
Bronnie delivered a live performance, following on with a talk on Mental Health, Body Image / LGBTQ+ and a Q&A for the students to participate in.
Bronnie is a Pop/Rock Artist from the North West. She equips a high energy persona with catchy Alt/Punk/ Rock influences. Having previously gained extensive touring experience around the UK, Europe and USA, she has also supported a number of high profile acts including Avril Lavigne & Little Mix.
She was really inspirational and definitely struck a chord with the students, they all loved the event and were up out of their seats dancing and coming together as a year group. It was a great way to end the term!
Having had her own struggles with bullying, body image and mental health, Bronnie was the perfect advocate to deliver a positive message to young people.
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SHARING THE VISION | SPRING 2022
SHARING THE VISION | SPRING 2022
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