Summer 2012 Newsletter - St. Marylebone CE School

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The Olympic stage Year 9 Performing Arts Festival 2012 The Year 9 Performing Arts Festival took place on Wednesday 20th and Thursday 21 st June. The theme for this year’s festival was The Olympic Stage, and Year 9 had two days off timetable to prepare a montage of music, dance and drama. Each class produced an exciting, imaginative and creative response to their brief, and the sheer variety of ideas on display was wonderful to see. The Celebration Evening provided friends and family with the chance to celebrate with Year 9 as they marked the end of Key Stage 3 and received their Year 9 award. Many students had worked on an Extended Project, and these were on show in the Maths Rooms after the celebration in Church, and highlighted the extraordinary talent of Year 9 pupils at St Marylebone. It was a wonderful two days, and a fitting conclusion to an excellent year for Year 9 students. During the summer term, Choral Scholars from Key Stage 3 have been taking part in the Songspace project organised by Wigmore Hall Learning. The project has involved over 100 students from five different London schools working with a composer, John Barber, and professional musicians, to create a new song cycle based on traditional French songs. The Songspace project has done much to inspire vocal and compositional creativity in our St Marylebone students. Our students composed a response to a classic French song, ’Pourquoi?’ composed by Messian, which they also learnt to sing. Their composition is testament to their vocal talents, incorporating extended techniques and close harmony singing. At the culmination concert which took place at Wigmore Hall on Friday 6 th July, students performed alongside the other schools taking part in the project. Each school performed their chosen French song plus their newly composed response song, and also joined together to sing some traditional French children’s songs. The concert was added to with performances from famous musicians involved in the project, who also performed French works: Sophie Daneman (soprano), Eugene Asti (piano). St Marylebone would like to thank project leader John Barber, Julia Roderick, Head of Education at Wigmore Hall and all of the musicians involved in the project for creating such a successful initiative.
The annual Dance Company Tour commenced on Sunday 24 th June and lasted 9 days. This was the most extensive tour to date, with students performing in a range of venues including a primary school, a secondary school and outside Westfield Shopping Centre. There were also two performances in the St Marylebone Theatre; one for invited guests from local primary schools and the other for family and friends. The performances featured guest appearances by Westminster Junior Dance Company and Dance Scholars, and included works choreographed by teachers, students and a professional choreographer. Although I’ve always enjoyed dance, I had never really taken part in anything to do with dance since I had come to St Marylebone but throughout Year 8, I have become so much more involved in dancing. When I participate in dance and commit to it, I feel like I am taking part in something I’m really passionate about. However, before doing dance in Year 8 I never had that strong feeling. It has really changed my experience of school as a whole because I now feel like there is something that I can really be a part of. The first thing that really got me involved in dance was being in the dance show in January. I really loved the long and sometimes very tiring rehearsals because I knew that I was committed and that it would be completely worth it in the end. And it was. The excitement and thrill that I got when performing on stage was something I had hardly experienced and the buzz was amazing! Since then I’ve been participating in so much more. Recently I was in the Hip-Hop Project where we had about 4-5 weeks to learn a routine choreographed by a really talented choreographer and dance teacher, Omar. It was really fun working with him and everyone else to create a really good hip-hop/street dance piece. After the competition, we came out winners! It was such an amazing experience to participate in and winning it was even better! At the moment I’m in the Sports Day Opening Ceremony which again takes a lot of practise and commitment but I am so sure that it will be worth it all after the performance! I really, really love taking part in these opportunities because they are always such a fantastic experience, and I love putting the effort in and then seeing the great outcomes. I would really recommend that people take part in whatever they love to do because when you have a passion for something you should seize any opportunities that come. Because at the end of it, it will always be another worthwhile experience, whatever happens. Ava Chowdhury-Turner 8W Having the opportunity to join Dance Company has really helped me to develop my dancing skills and techniques in many ways. I feel very confident in performing in front of an audience, not only at school but outside to other schools and venues. I particularly enjoyed my recent first outside performance with the Big Bus tour in Islington. The Dance Company has helped me to improve working as a team and has allowed me to share my ideas. I particularly enjoy Dance Company as I can express myself through dance, work with people of different ages. It keeps me physically fit and active. It is a great opportunity to improve my dancing and hopefully will help me work towards achieving an A- Level in Dance if I am good enough in my GCSE. Rosie Watson 8W
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