Music (continued) Mrs J Richards (conducted by Shirley Howman), Outsiders Boys’ Choir and Girls’ Choir, conducted by Miss Cooksey. The concert was a thorough success and well done to all pupils who were involved. A donation from the ticket sales has been given to the Japan Tsunami Relief Fund. Junior Jazz Brass Group The second event was a concert held on
14 April 2011 which featured The National Youth Orchestra of Luxembourg, Symphonic Brass and Cardiff & Vale of Glamorgan Youth Wind Band, which included some of our students. The music presented was of a terrific standard, again— well done to all.
ment by one of our young musicians in Year 9. Following on from last year’s success with a Stanwell sixth former winning the prestigious Cardiff Richard Fice Memorial Award, Peter McDonough (who has been successful in a number of local competitions), has won the competition this year, the youngest winner so far in the history of the event. We are very proud of him!! Well done, Peter. Finally—but certainly not least— rehearsals are in full flow at the time of writing for the end of term Year 8 production of BUGSY MALONE. Pupils from KS3 are supporting backstage and in the accompanying band; it is going to be a very exciting show! Tickets will be on sale from the school office, with the dates of the show being the 12th, 13th and 14th of July. During the last week of term, many of our pupils will have performed in City Hall, St Davids Hall and Cardiff County Hall, in senior County groups such as Jazz News, the County Youth Choir and the County Youth Brass Band. It is extremely encouraging to see our pupils being involved in such events.
The Summer annual Rotary Concert tookplace, with all the schools from Penarth presenting musical items in aid of charity; this year ten schools took part! The contribution from Stanwell was our Junior Jazz group performing two pieces - ‘What I’d Say’ by Ray Charles and ‘I Feel Good’ by STOP PRESS James Brown. Soloists were Ray Vandyck Anyone interested in learning to play an instrument or having singing lessons next (Clarinet, Year 7) and Becky Thompson year should see one of the music staff im(Vocals, Year 9). mediately at the start of the Autumn Term. We must acknowledge a superb achieve-
“a superb achievement by one of our young musicians”