POP-UP PERFORMANCE WEEK

Junior School enjoyed a fabulous ‘Pop-Up Performance week’ at the Junior School and this time we went even bigger and better! The week of musical entertainment began with Mr Rands welcoming students and entertaining parents on the front playground with a super vocal performance, whilst Mrs Hunter played film theme tunes on the flute to Year 1 as they arrived.

“Miss Fuller ‘popped up’ playing beautiful oboe music several times to enraptured audiences throughout the week, and every assembly throughout the week featured one or more talented children playing their instruments or singing. Hundreds of pupils performed to their classmates in their music lessons, and various musical welcoming committees continued to appear on the playgrounds every morning, including members of the orchestra and of class 5R.

“During hymn practice on Thursday, Miss McMillan and fabulous young drummer Abigail had KS2 clapping along enthusiastically to ragtime xylophone and ‘We Will Rock You’ respectively. During lunchtimes the sight of the grand piano in the hall drew crowds of children keen to perform on their various instruments or sing a song, and their super performances were met with great enthusiasm by those who were listening as they dined. When Mrs Nugent played the piano to Key Stage 1 during their lunch on Friday, the mood of the room definitely matched the title of her most popular piece; ‘Happy’.

“Reception children spent a joyful lunchtime singing and dancing along to songs from the KS2 ‘outdoor choir’, then pieces by Leo on the guitar and Harry on cornet. The contest for the loudest performance of the week was closely tied between Mr Gandee’s fabulous Brass Group performing marches to Key Stage 2 in the outdoor wooden gazebo during a sunny lunchtime, and the Year 6 band ‘Nothing Special’ – who proved they were anything but their own name as an impressed audience of Year 1 and 2 children rocked out to their renditions of Queen songs on the front playground!