THE CHARITY REVUE

Reviewing the Charity Revue, the school charities and the riveting staff and student acts we all got to enjoy!

In February, we hosted the annual Charity Revue, where students of all ages and talents get to showcase their skills in front of an admiring audience.

This year we saw a range of performances, from a spontaneous step-in from Monty Sleep and Harry Heming performing their GCSE scripted drama piece to Mr Breslin and the staff band’s rendition of Mustang Sally and Crazy Little Thing Called Love.

The musical talents did not end there, Selena Braithwaite sang an original emotional song along with Amelia Baldock’s moving performance of “She Used to be Mine” from the Broadway musical Waitress

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Tiger Ge, Herbie Sleep, Alex Davies and Matthew Wakefield gave us an animated and lively show, performing My Prerogative by Bobby Brown, which to everyone ’ s delight came with an impromptu dance by Herbie Sleep, featuring a very impressive backflip!

We also got to witness our two brilliant compéres, Tess Garrett and Polly Symes, in fantastically flamboyant trousers brought to us by one of our school charities, Bushbells

Bushbells is a charity that focuses on building schools in Kenya. They make kikoy clothing in Watamu, Kenya

The proceeds go to funding the educational projects set by the co-founders, Ann and Jax, a mother-daughter duo that set up this organisation in 2009 In 2015, Bushbells, the school, was completed, and Bluebells, the sister school, started to develop

Bushbells not only offers education to underprivileged children, but they also only produce their beautiful products in Kenya, which offers more opportunities and jobs for those in need Bushbells prides itself on employing locally and giving back to the community, which is why we are so proud to be able to do our part and help with Ann and Jax’s efforts!

The donations raised from this will not only go to help Bushbells, but it will also go to our other school charity, Crisis Crisis is a UKbased charity focusing on helping those that are facing homelessness

Crisis offers support in numerous ways, including shelter, healthcare, food and company. They work to limit the burden of those having to decide where their money goes, food or heating. They offer seminars, offering skills training and interview practice

This year, we have Polly Symes and Tess Garrett to thank for the engaging show that was put on The Charity Society planned for weeks to bring back the extravagance of this event after the hit it took after COVID, with last year having an attendance of only six people.

We are happy to say that the number of attendees increased exponentially! This is no doubt due to the wonderful acts we had performed and the efforts of Polly, with the help of Tess, and to the charity society publicising as much as possible.