The Importance of Being Earnest - Farleigh School

The Importance of Being Earnest
A talented cast of 12 Year 7 children tackled Oscar Wilde’s satirical masterpiece on the artifice of Victorian high society. Comedy
is difficult at the best of times; but when you are delivering some of the most famous lines ever heard in an English theatre, the
pressure is immense. Well done to the children, who worked really hard and rose to the challenge. Caroline Goodall
Andrew Fenwick stars as Jack and
Oscar Page as Algy
Open Air Summer Concert
Almost 200 Farleigh pupils took part in this popular annual event,
during which a selection of classical and popular pieces were
performed by the Junior and Senior Choirs; Year 4, 5, 6 and
7 Singers; the Jazz, Junior, Samba and Wind Bands; Clarinet
Quartet, Flute Choir, Guitar Quartet, Saxophone Septet and
String Orchestra. The evening kicked off with a rendition by the
Wind Band of the ‘James Bond’ theme music and culminated in
a rousing performance by the Jazz Band of ‘Joshua fought the
Battle of Jericho’. The audience demanded an encore of the final
piece which led to an impromptu ‘conga’ dance, involving every
child in the school, their friends and siblings. Marcus Reeves An impromptu conga
The flute choir performs ‘Daisy, Daisy’
Farleigh Newsletter November 2007
The ensemble takes a bow Leading ladies: Isabella Speaight, Lucia Syder
and Abigail Rigg
The Junior Choir performs ‘No Matter What’
A balancing act for Octavia Rome
The class of 2007 on tour in Devon
Year 8s Leave on a High
Polly Dixon-Green, Sarah Johnson, Alice Campbell and Phoebe Ashley
take cover on Dartmoor
The Year 8 Leavers’ Programme had it all: Ready Steady Cook, The Generation Game, Film School, Indian head massage techniques,
some well earned pampering, and more... Days out at Highclere Stud and Newbury Races, Hampton Court, and Laverstoke Park
organic farm. Lessons in life-saving, ballroom dancing, film making, etiquette and personal improvement kept them all buzzing.
Sherborne teachers talked to them about ‘Life at Senior School’ and they tried German, Russian and Spanish with Marlborough College
language teachers. They took part in a triathlon in aid of Turkana in Kenya and the ever popular highlight of the leavers’ programme –
the trip to Dartmoor, where they refused to allow the inclement Devon weather to dampen their exuberant spirits. Stuart Whithear
The girls scrub up well for the Year 8 leavers’ dinner
Will Vaughan-Edwards puts his faith in his friends
Mr Butt and the boys look dapper too