On Wednesday 24 March, we hosted our first ever "Meeting Us, Meeting You" social for Year 6 parents and their children. Since it was a first, we had no idea how it would work out, but work out it did, and in real style.
Parents and children started arriving at 5; by 5.20, the library was pretty crowded and people were enjoying the refreshments (more of these later). After a welcome and introductions to senior staff, the AET Managing Director (David Fuller), governors and parents, Ms Blease, our Gifted and Talented Coordinator, took over. With the G and T students - and the help of her daughter home from Uni - she had organised the delicious snacks and sushi (her daughter's speciality) which were, frankly, of a very high quality. Indeed, they were good enough to put Come Dine With Me contestants to shame, especially since the Shene students got them all cooked on time! Ms Blease then MC'd a short concert: Faye playing the piano; Colette doing her Grade 8 exam ballet piece; Lujain presenting her Jack Petchey Speak Out competition entry (Richmond round is tomorrow evening) entitled "Words"; Brandon and Leo describing life as a Year 7; and Tyler singing a Destiny Child's single.
This was then followed by networking, socialising, tours led by G and T students and a general good time. Many people remained until 7pm and some have asked if they can return for the second social (initially arranged for those parents who couldn't make the March date). We will be delighted to welcome back parents and their children, along with those who didn't come to the first, since part of the rationale of this event is to allow Year 6 parents to meet others also beginning at Shene. If you would like to come, please contact the school and we will send out an invitation and/or note your RSVP.
Monday, 29 March 2010
Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Shene Dance
Dance has taken off in a big way at Shene School since Ms Fairbairn, our Head of Music and a trained dancer, introduced the GCSE in 2008. We are fortunate enough to be working in close collaboration with a local professional dance company, Combination Dance. Last night, an audience of parents and peers watched the 2010 Choreographic exhibition of work from Years 10 and 11, and a raw but exciting piece from Year 9s which was pulled together in just one workshop with Combination Dance. The dancers included a girl doing Grade 8 ballet, Year 11s who intend to continue with Dance at college and students who simply love the subject. The genres ranged from classical ballet to contemporary, via street, and all showed that a considerable amount of work had gone into the production. All the spectators were very proud. I attach below the report of a recent public event with our dancers written by Ms Fairbairn.
Richmond Theatre approached Anne-Marie Smalldon, Artistic Director of Richmond-based Combination Dance Company, with the brief to deliver an after-school Jam Free dance club working towards a performance piece merging Street dance and Salsa. Since their performance at Shene School, funding has been secured to ensure the continuation of the dance club and the participants are now looking forward to getting involved with Big Dance this summer working with the West London hub, English National Ballet.
Jam Free Performance
The Richmond Jam Free dancers came from three Richmond secondary schools. The girls all had an interest in dance, but had not previously had the opportunity to take part in regular dance training. Together with dance artist Anne-Marie Smalldon they created a dance piece, Red Alert, a unique fusion of Street dance and Salsa, with a military theme.
The girls were immediately able to relate to the Street dance choreography and once they had adjusted to dancing in partners, holding hands and working on intricate arm sequences together, they were keen to experiment with their new-found Salsa skills. Anne-Marie felt the Salsa training enabled them to develop their composition skills. "I found it refreshing, as someone who usually works with professional dancers, to work with a group of young people who were able to come up with some really innovative ideas" said Anne-Marie.
The dance club rehearsals took place weekly in the studio at Richmond Theatre, for two hours at a time, contributing significantly towards the girls' five hours of physical activity per week. Many of the participants were attracted to the project by the opportunity to perform and to work with professional dancers.
"I wanted to do it for the experience and to work with professionals, as I'm doing my dance GCSE."
"Dance is fun, keeps you fit and you get to perform."
"The best thing was watching the other performances and meeting new people. The Street piece was my favourite though."
The Richmond Jam Free performance event featured not only the touring youth dance companies and Blueprint Bursary piece, but also a performance by Combination Dance Company, dance club members performing a Contemporary work-in-progress piece based on ideas from Combination Dance Company's latest work and and freestyle solos by two emerging choreorgaphers working alongside Anne-Marie, together known as Alliance Dance Unit (ADU).
Anne-Marie said that it was 'possibly one of the best dance events in terms of variety and standard' she had seen in Richmond in recent years and emphasised that is was the location, a local everyday space within a secondary school that made it unique, presenting high quality dance work usually only seen in professional venues. She added that the school caretaker, who had been supportive throughout the project in terms of allocating space for the rehearsals, had been amazed at the high standard of work that had been brought into the schools' studio theatre. Cheers were heard from the audience at the end of the evening and the success of the dance club itself has led to Richmond Council securing funding for it's continuation to enable Anne-Marie and her company to continue to work with the same group of young people until the end of the year.
These photos were taken at the dress rehearsal:
Richmond Theatre approached Anne-Marie Smalldon, Artistic Director of Richmond-based Combination Dance Company, with the brief to deliver an after-school Jam Free dance club working towards a performance piece merging Street dance and Salsa. Since their performance at Shene School, funding has been secured to ensure the continuation of the dance club and the participants are now looking forward to getting involved with Big Dance this summer working with the West London hub, English National Ballet.
Jam Free Performance
The Richmond Jam Free dancers came from three Richmond secondary schools. The girls all had an interest in dance, but had not previously had the opportunity to take part in regular dance training. Together with dance artist Anne-Marie Smalldon they created a dance piece, Red Alert, a unique fusion of Street dance and Salsa, with a military theme.
The girls were immediately able to relate to the Street dance choreography and once they had adjusted to dancing in partners, holding hands and working on intricate arm sequences together, they were keen to experiment with their new-found Salsa skills. Anne-Marie felt the Salsa training enabled them to develop their composition skills. "I found it refreshing, as someone who usually works with professional dancers, to work with a group of young people who were able to come up with some really innovative ideas" said Anne-Marie.
The dance club rehearsals took place weekly in the studio at Richmond Theatre, for two hours at a time, contributing significantly towards the girls' five hours of physical activity per week. Many of the participants were attracted to the project by the opportunity to perform and to work with professional dancers.
"I wanted to do it for the experience and to work with professionals, as I'm doing my dance GCSE."
"Dance is fun, keeps you fit and you get to perform."
"The best thing was watching the other performances and meeting new people. The Street piece was my favourite though."
The Richmond Jam Free performance event featured not only the touring youth dance companies and Blueprint Bursary piece, but also a performance by Combination Dance Company, dance club members performing a Contemporary work-in-progress piece based on ideas from Combination Dance Company's latest work and and freestyle solos by two emerging choreorgaphers working alongside Anne-Marie, together known as Alliance Dance Unit (ADU).
Anne-Marie said that it was 'possibly one of the best dance events in terms of variety and standard' she had seen in Richmond in recent years and emphasised that is was the location, a local everyday space within a secondary school that made it unique, presenting high quality dance work usually only seen in professional venues. She added that the school caretaker, who had been supportive throughout the project in terms of allocating space for the rehearsals, had been amazed at the high standard of work that had been brought into the schools' studio theatre. Cheers were heard from the audience at the end of the evening and the success of the dance club itself has led to Richmond Council securing funding for it's continuation to enable Anne-Marie and her company to continue to work with the same group of young people until the end of the year.
These photos were taken at the dress rehearsal:
Dragons' Den
Dragons' Den came to Shene School last week. As part of the new Key Stage 3 Curriculum, students in Year 7 participated in a Dragons' Den competition to design an improved Year 7 playground area. Pupils worked in teams in ICT lessons to put forward proposals to a panel of distinguished judges, including a journalist and a local business woman. The winners of the project will be presented with prizes, donated by one of the Dragons. I copy below some of the judges' comments. Many thanks to the judges for giving up their time and to Mr Stone, Head of ICT, for organising the event.
1. BA Playgrounds Direct – B and A
Welcoming, well structured, ideas for girls and boys, activities, sitting and grass, enthusiastic, great smiles, IT capable.
2. MNMP
Clear intro and structure, clever IT drop downs and points, good working together and shared roles. P and M showed real grasp and spoke up well. Ideas more for girls (skipping ropes) but basket balls for boys. Bike sheds different.
3. JJA Designs
Good intro, detailed plan, clear criteria, enthusiasm (fun/amazing), mix of active (healthy/fit) and sitting. Ideas for boys and girls. Thoughtful on numbers and responsibilities. Engaged with us. Multi-media (handout!). great voices.
4. CNC Projects
Clear criteria, thought-through space for trees, plants, benches and swings – with covered pergola. Very sensible and perhaps not much fun. Not much for boys. Good IT.
5. WWBFN Designs
Clear criteria and structure. Bright and colourful pictures and good use of IT. Overall use of total ground in champ square, football, basketball, soft ground (rubber) and green areas with seats. 5 working well together with enthusiasm.
6. N’s Playgrounds
Clever IT, no colour, overly structured in methodical patterns
7T2 Teams
Group 1 – S, R, K, B
*R a fabulous presenter.
Welcoming, great intros – and wonderful shaking hands on way out! Told excellent story of playground usage, mixed activities and garden seats in a garden where they can catch up on homework. Engaged with us and able to draw ideas. Not much as a project brought together. Able to estimate costs and where to buy equipment
Group 2 – C, J, M, N
*J a fabulous presenter.
Good story. Great pictures. Did measure the site. Ideas for girls and boys including a swingchair, plants, seats, netball – an area to rephrase the mind. Engaged with us with enthusiasm and able to draw out ideas and estimate costs. Not much as a project brought together.
Group 3 – K, M, S
Clear intro. Thought through numbers and equipment more benches, more games (activities as well as basketball) – more fun. Good pictures and birds’eyeview. Reasonable IT.
Friday, 19 March 2010
Books and photographs
Creative and Media Diploma- Trip to Eel Pie Island.
Blog written by Ms Jacob, Head of Art
On Thursday the 28th January, the twelve Creative and Media Diploma students embarked on a trip to Eel Pie Island to undertake two challenges for their course. They had a lecture on global warming and climate change and were briefed by the head of the company to create a drama performance as part of a campaign to educate students about the effects of global warming.
On Thursday the 28th January, the twelve Creative and Media Diploma students embarked on a trip to Eel Pie Island to undertake two challenges for their course. They had a lecture on global warming and climate change and were briefed by the head of the company to create a drama performance as part of a campaign to educate students about the effects of global warming.
The students then participated in a creative writing workshop by scriptwriter Annie Siddons. The students were extremely creative and came up with various ideas for a performance. Annie was so impressed that she wants to come back and work with the students further on their project.
Later the students were introduced to the photography brief - “sustainability of the environment in the borough of Richmond”. Joseph, the Eel Pie Island organizer, discussed the importance of making the public aware of the local environment and to show what individuals and groups are doing to preserve the environment. The students were told that images would have to be: technically adept; memorable and well composed; show creative thinking; and have an environmental theme. Richard Clements, a professional photographer from friends of the Crane Environment discussed what made a good photograph and showed examples of his work.
The students were well motivated and are looking forward to developing their skills in photography. The trust is holding a competition set by the Environmental Trust will and the winner will be decided at their general meeting on June 10th 2010.
Look out for the students’ performance on climate change towards the end of the term.
Students were… Aaron , Joseph , Charlie , Skye , Aicha , Rashidah , Marissa , Leila , Audreyce , Charlie, Claire and Fernada.
Ms Bowe, our new librarian, writes about the exciting work which is going on at the moment:
We celebrated World Book Day in the library and all the Year seven classes came in during one of their English lessons. I read them some extracts from the specially published books and gave them the vouchers to buy them with,. The children all got their book club magazines and were shown the current competitions in the library. The Year sevens then had a good rummage through all the new books, each taking one out to read and all getting a new Garfield bookmark as a gift from the library – these all have messages on from Garfield such as “Look after your books, read with clean paws!”
We currently are inviting the children to design a book mark which will win them small prizes in school but nationally the chance to win £100 in book tokens and for their design to be made up and sold in shops nationwide. There are Easter eggs up for grabs before I send them off for judging in the national competition!
We also have our “Bedlam Cube” in the library – a fiendish logic cube puzzle which the children are queuing up to try and complete to win Easter Eggs – even the staff haven’t been able to crack this puzzle yet, though Ms. Booth has tried a few times!! New Where’s Wally posters round the library are making it brighter and groups of kids are crowding round them to find Wally.
The library continues to be getting busier and so we have introduced a rota system where first break is for years 7,8 and 9 and second break is for years 10 and 11. This has limited the massive numbers in here all at once and makes it a bit easier for me to manage! New books are still coming on to the shelves courtesy of the PTA grant and the loans from the library have increased 600% since November! Another busy month in the library which hopefully will get even busier!!
Did you know – last April the library loaned out 13 books – this March I have loaned out 235 books already!
Later the students were introduced to the photography brief - “sustainability of the environment in the borough of Richmond”. Joseph, the Eel Pie Island organizer, discussed the importance of making the public aware of the local environment and to show what individuals and groups are doing to preserve the environment. The students were told that images would have to be: technically adept; memorable and well composed; show creative thinking; and have an environmental theme. Richard Clements, a professional photographer from friends of the Crane Environment discussed what made a good photograph and showed examples of his work.
The students were well motivated and are looking forward to developing their skills in photography. The trust is holding a competition set by the Environmental Trust will and the winner will be decided at their general meeting on June 10th 2010.
Look out for the students’ performance on climate change towards the end of the term.
Students were… Aaron , Joseph , Charlie , Skye , Aicha , Rashidah , Marissa , Leila , Audreyce , Charlie, Claire and Fernada.
Ms Bowe, our new librarian, writes about the exciting work which is going on at the moment:
We celebrated World Book Day in the library and all the Year seven classes came in during one of their English lessons. I read them some extracts from the specially published books and gave them the vouchers to buy them with,. The children all got their book club magazines and were shown the current competitions in the library. The Year sevens then had a good rummage through all the new books, each taking one out to read and all getting a new Garfield bookmark as a gift from the library – these all have messages on from Garfield such as “Look after your books, read with clean paws!”
We currently are inviting the children to design a book mark which will win them small prizes in school but nationally the chance to win £100 in book tokens and for their design to be made up and sold in shops nationwide. There are Easter eggs up for grabs before I send them off for judging in the national competition!
We also have our “Bedlam Cube” in the library – a fiendish logic cube puzzle which the children are queuing up to try and complete to win Easter Eggs – even the staff haven’t been able to crack this puzzle yet, though Ms. Booth has tried a few times!! New Where’s Wally posters round the library are making it brighter and groups of kids are crowding round them to find Wally.
The library continues to be getting busier and so we have introduced a rota system where first break is for years 7,8 and 9 and second break is for years 10 and 11. This has limited the massive numbers in here all at once and makes it a bit easier for me to manage! New books are still coming on to the shelves courtesy of the PTA grant and the loans from the library have increased 600% since November! Another busy month in the library which hopefully will get even busier!!
Did you know – last April the library loaned out 13 books – this March I have loaned out 235 books already!
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Shene's Got Talent!
As with last year, Shene students once again proved what a versatile, talented group of people they are. I felt very privileged to be asked back to be a judge ("Sharon Kirby"), alongside "Simon Dowling", "Louis Hill" and "Danni McCormack".
A packed house ensured maximum atmosphere and there was huge enjoyment for all the acts. Children of all ages and all talents competed: a dance/comedy based on Michael Jackson's Thriller by Year 7s Brandon and Dapo, counterpointed by a tribute to Jackson by a Year 11, Karim; two solo piano performances by Natalia and Faye; vocal performances of songs written by the children themselves by Year 9s, a modern dance solo, song solos and our very 
own Year 11 band comprising Michael, Shaun and Josh on guitar, drums and bass respectively. It was very hard for us as judges to come down to three winners and we had to nominate two highly commendeds as well as three winners. The judges - in real life - were Mr Hill, ex Head of Music at Shene, Mr Durling, a record company executive, Ms McCormack who heads the Dramatic Edge programme for Richmond, and myself, with no musical or performing talents at all. The winners we finally decided upon were:
Highly commended: Faye H, Year 8, jazz piano performance of Spanish Sketch
Sophie W, Year 10, solo vocal performance of Crush Crush Crush
3rd prize Sharon M, Year 10, solo vocal performance of If I Ain't Got You
2nd prize Ishmel B & Jamieson RB, dance performance
1st prize Dane F & Fahim U, vocal performance of their own composition
Huge congratulations to all the competitors who showed courage, professionalism and enthusiasm in their performances, as well as, of course, buckets of talent. Huge thanks to Mr Walker, Ms Simms and Ms Fairbairn for coordinating the whole event, and Mr Walker in particular for his comical (?) MC'ing. I would have loved to have heard the staff performances..... (Ms Booth and Ms Fairbairn singing I Know Him So Well, Mr Hill on the piano and Ms Quinn Larkin, Ms Fairbairn and Ms Blease, accompanied by Shaun M, singing Sunshine of Your Love) ...however, I was out judging.
A packed house ensured maximum atmosphere and there was huge enjoyment for all the acts. Children of all ages and all talents competed: a dance/comedy based on Michael Jackson's Thriller by Year 7s Brandon and Dapo, counterpointed by a tribute to Jackson by a Year 11, Karim; two solo piano performances by Natalia and Faye; vocal performances of songs written by the children themselves by Year 9s, a modern dance solo, song solos and our very 
own Year 11 band comprising Michael, Shaun and Josh on guitar, drums and bass respectively. It was very hard for us as judges to come down to three winners and we had to nominate two highly commendeds as well as three winners. The judges - in real life - were Mr Hill, ex Head of Music at Shene, Mr Durling, a record company executive, Ms McCormack who heads the Dramatic Edge programme for Richmond, and myself, with no musical or performing talents at all. The winners we finally decided upon were:Highly commended: Faye H, Year 8, jazz piano performance of Spanish Sketch
Sophie W, Year 10, solo vocal performance of Crush Crush Crush
3rd prize Sharon M, Year 10, solo vocal performance of If I Ain't Got You
2nd prize Ishmel B & Jamieson RB, dance performance
1st prize Dane F & Fahim U, vocal performance of their own composition
Huge congratulations to all the competitors who showed courage, professionalism and enthusiasm in their performances, as well as, of course, buckets of talent. Huge thanks to Mr Walker, Ms Simms and Ms Fairbairn for coordinating the whole event, and Mr Walker in particular for his comical (?) MC'ing. I would have loved to have heard the staff performances..... (Ms Booth and Ms Fairbairn singing I Know Him So Well, Mr Hill on the piano and Ms Quinn Larkin, Ms Fairbairn and Ms Blease, accompanied by Shaun M, singing Sunshine of Your Love) ...however, I was out judging.Friday, 12 March 2010
BBC Shene comes to Sheen!
Yesterday, a selection of year 9 students participated in BBC School Report. In only 5 hours they researched, interviewed, filmed, voice recorded, typed, edited and produced an entire selection of news stories. Their commitment to the day and behaviour both in school and on the Upper Richmond Road was fantastic. They were so impressive in Sam’s (researching antisocial behaviour) that they were given free chips! Every shop they entered (including a lingerie shop, as they were so desperate to interview locals they didn’t look in the window before they went in!), they received a warm welcome from the owner and very infrequently did they get rebuffed by people in the street for interviews. Our BBC Mentor, the producer of a Radio 5 show, noted that when she calls for interviews, she has a 50% success rate…our children were probably nearer 80 or 90%! The final written pieces are on the school website and there will soon be a couple of videos to accompany these. Hopefully, we will be taking them to the BBC studios soon and our BBC Mentor has offered some special behind the scenes tour as she was so impressed with them.
I copy the email we just received from the BBC journalist:
"I just wanted to say thank you for having me at the school last week, I really enjoyed it. What a difference to my usual day at work! It was every bit as busy as being in the newsroom here at BBC Radio 5 live but the people I was working with were far more entertaining than those I usually sit next to!
I thought the school reporters all did really well, and their pieces look great on the website. They got two mentions on the School Report live feed, Billy got his own name-check, see here (at 1423 and 1545):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/school_report/8504453.stm
Thanks again and well done for getting it all together, I am full of admiration for the job you do.
Here's the page for booking tours of Television Centre, let me know if you do book, I'd love to come and say hello when you arrive."
The current BBC website has two tweets from the journalist:
1423: Spoilt for choice: "Shene School Reporters have interviewed local shopkeepers and parents about anti-social behaviour, fast food, Beckham's scarf, social networking sites and the fact that their school will soon become an academy," texts mentor Jane Andrews from Shene School in London.
1545: Beckam's scarf: "Billy from Shene School in London becomes the first School Reporter to publish his story on the school website. Local football fans have been telling him how they felt to see Beckham wear the green and gold scarf at Old Trafford last night," texts mentor Jane Andrews from Shene School in London
Students involved: Laura, Snezhana, Shabaaz, Klarisa, Daniel, Zeyad, Jamie, Arbnor, Jason, Lucas, George, Billy, Matty, Olly, Suha, Romilah, Robson.
Thursday, 11 March 2010
DCSF: fact finding visit
The Department of Children, Schools and Families periodically send out their civil servants to spend time in schools to gain an insight into how their 'end users' function and the effect of the Department's work upon their daily lives. From Monday to Wednesday, we welcomed Trevor Spedding to our school. Trevor spent most of the time shadowing me through meetings, tours of the school and work with students. He also spent a morning with different classes to get a feel for their experience. I have just received his email of thanks, which I reproduce below:
"Thank you very much for letting me visit your school this week under the School Immersion Programme. I really enjoyed it. Please can you also thank all the staff and pupils who made me feel very welcome throughout. My visit gave me a good insight into how a school is run and the varied issues that are involved. I especially enjoyed the tour of the school with the prospective parents, the sitting in on lessons (even the Year 7 History lesson where they told me all about the Black Death !!!) and the meeting we had in your office yesterday about the Academy. I can really tell that the staff care about the school and the pupils and want the best for them."
Unfortunately for Trevor, he missed today's exciting activity, which was Year 9 students' involvement in the BBC School report initiative. The reports should be on the system imminently. They interviewed local people, staff and students about issues such as the impending Academy and social networking sites. Another exciting activity he will miss is next Monday evening's Shene's Got Talent, which promises to be a smorgasbord of song, dance, music and theatre. Tickets are going fast, so book now if you want to come along and share some of our talent. He is also missing the activities for Science week. Ms Knapp writes:
"National Science and Engineering week is here and we are doing quite a few things to celebrate! The year 7’s will be having a bridge building competition in lessons next week, while the year 8’s will be participating in a borough wide science experiment during their lessons.
We are also running a famous scientist poster competition for all students. We would really like students to find some scientists they can relate to (not just the standard scientists like Isaac Newton or Marie Curie!) and the posters can be done by hand or using a computer."
"Thank you very much for letting me visit your school this week under the School Immersion Programme. I really enjoyed it. Please can you also thank all the staff and pupils who made me feel very welcome throughout. My visit gave me a good insight into how a school is run and the varied issues that are involved. I especially enjoyed the tour of the school with the prospective parents, the sitting in on lessons (even the Year 7 History lesson where they told me all about the Black Death !!!) and the meeting we had in your office yesterday about the Academy. I can really tell that the staff care about the school and the pupils and want the best for them."
Unfortunately for Trevor, he missed today's exciting activity, which was Year 9 students' involvement in the BBC School report initiative. The reports should be on the system imminently. They interviewed local people, staff and students about issues such as the impending Academy and social networking sites. Another exciting activity he will miss is next Monday evening's Shene's Got Talent, which promises to be a smorgasbord of song, dance, music and theatre. Tickets are going fast, so book now if you want to come along and share some of our talent. He is also missing the activities for Science week. Ms Knapp writes:
"National Science and Engineering week is here and we are doing quite a few things to celebrate! The year 7’s will be having a bridge building competition in lessons next week, while the year 8’s will be participating in a borough wide science experiment during their lessons.
We are also running a famous scientist poster competition for all students. We would really like students to find some scientists they can relate to (not just the standard scientists like Isaac Newton or Marie Curie!) and the posters can be done by hand or using a computer."
Wednesday, 3 March 2010
Haiti Assembly
This morning, the pastor of East Sheen Baptist Church, the Rev. Paul Hill BD(Hons), Dip. N.E.B.S.S., came to the Upper School assembly to collect the cheque for the money raised by Shene students for the Haiti appeal. He described to an enthralled audience what the money would go towards:
He reiterated the messages we gave in assembly a few weeks ago: that this people are the poorest in the Western Hemisphere, with only 20 - 25% employment and typical daily income of between $1 - $2 per day. He thanked the children effusively and said that their generosity boded well for the future of them as individuals and society as a whole. Staff and students alike were touched by his words and we hope very much that we have been able to assist in some very small way towards helping this country rebuild itself.
- 5 containers of food and clothes
- a school for special needs children
- a hospital for 8 people who have suffered spinal damage from the earthquake, such that they are either paralysed from the waist or the neck downwards
He reiterated the messages we gave in assembly a few weeks ago: that this people are the poorest in the Western Hemisphere, with only 20 - 25% employment and typical daily income of between $1 - $2 per day. He thanked the children effusively and said that their generosity boded well for the future of them as individuals and society as a whole. Staff and students alike were touched by his words and we hope very much that we have been able to assist in some very small way towards helping this country rebuild itself.Monday, 1 March 2010
Ernie's Incredible Illucinations
Friday night saw a Hertford Hall audience seated expectantly, waiting for the Key Stage 3 play, Ernie's Incredible Illucinations. The "warm-up" act was stunning: Year 11 girls performing their their exam pieces, including their own choreographed performances. These were a mermaid’s sea dance, and the very moving chase, and final capture, of a gazelle by a lio
"I first got into Drama in Year 7 after my first Drama lesson..I am hoping to do Drama as a GCSE as I love to perform and amuse other people". (Jason B, Year 9)
"I first got into Drama in Year 7 after my first Drama lesson..I am hoping to do Drama as a GCSE as I love to perform and amuse other people". (Jason B, Year 9)
"I play a German officer, a barker and a tramp. I hope to be involved in more drama productions in the future". (Leonardo S, Year 7)
"I do Stage Coach outside of school and I am hoping to go on the casting agency list...When I am older, I would like to work in film". (Robson K, Year 9)
"I love Drama and want to have a professional career in it when I am older. I have been in three Shene performances now!" (Karmele B, Year 8)
"Even though I don't want a career in acting, I still want to try my best to leave this school with memories of participating in the wonderful 'Ernie's Incredible Illucinations!" (Gurmit K, Year 9)
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