Celebrating Pupil Achievements Outside School
It is great to be able to share news of pupils' co-curricular successes outside of school.
Year 8, Mia Petrucci regularly volunteers for the charity Zoe's Place and before Christmas she roped in her friend, Year 8, Delilah Teeton, to help with a collection before and after a Wasps game. Between them the girls raised £1,250 for Zoe's Place Baby Hospice. The charity like many was hit hard in the pandemic and we were very impressed to hear about Mia and Delilah's fundraising. Well done to both girls!
Then Year 10, Thomas Smith, Year 9, Andrea Zanyi, and, Year 7, Thomas Zanyi are all members of the Warwickshire Regional Youth Orchestra. As such, they had the privilege of attending a weekend course in early January, in partnership with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. NYO’s Associate Conductor, Lee Reynolds, both conducted and led the course, while NYO students took charge of the sectionals. The focus was on 'creativity'. At the end of two very enjoyable days the following pieces were performed to an audience in the Butterworth Hall, Warwick Arts Centre:
- A fully improvised piece called Wave
- The premiere of Jigsaw; an uplifting piece including recorded electronic sections, composed during lockdown by Dani Howard, who is a member of NYO
- A jazz version of Auld Lang Syne created by the weekend course attendees
- Boléro by Maurice Ravel, classical version
Well done to them all!