The Arts Award is celebrating its 10th birthday with centres across the country organising events and activities. Lots is happening at Woodcroft during the week – take a look…
- Wednesday 30th June – Strings Concert
- Friday 1st July – Choir Concer
- Monday 4th – Year 3 Ukulele Concert
- Wednesday 6th – Year 5 host a Shakespeare display evening
- Thursday 7th – We host Pavilion Opera performing Macbeth
- Friday 8th – Summer Music Concert with Brass, Woodwind, Guitar and Percussion performances
- Saturday 9th – Our dance club and choir perform on stage at the Graham Park Community Day
- Monday 11th – Woodcroft Dancers take part in the Great Big Dance Off National Finals
- Monday 11th – Year 2 Drumming Showcase
During the week our Year 6 pupils are also finalising their Bronze Arts Award portfolios!
Summer Strings Concert
On Wednesday 30th of June our instrumentalists performed in the Summer Term Strings Concert to the school and their families. Click here to read more…
Choir Performance
On Friday 1st July our Senior Choir performed to friends and family. Click here to read more…
Year 3 Ukulele Show
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On Monday 4th July our Year 3 pupils performed their final ukulele show of the year. Click here to read more
‘Macbeth’ The Opera by Verdi comes to Woodcroft
On Thursday 7th July Woodcroft hosted a full scale operatic performance of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. This amazing show by Pavilion Opera, an internationally renowned travelling Opera Company, involved a cast of 17 professional singers in complete stage costume and props. They even had a full size grand piano brought in especially for the performance!
The company provide a unique educational experience through their Pavilion Opera Educational Trust (POET). This allows schools to explore opera as part of an educational programme culminating in a live professional performance. Year 5 have been studying the play and its historical setting throughout the term. The pupils were enthralled throughout the whole opera. It was even performed in it’s original language, Italian. However, because they have studied and immersed themselves in the play of Macbeth they were able to follow the story. “I thought it would be good, but I didn’t think it would be that good,” commented a teacher.
Woodcroft Dancers & Choir to Perform at the Grahame Park Festival
Woodcroft were invited to open the Grahame Park Festival & Fun Day on Saturday 9th July by our friends at Nutmeg Community.Our Senior Choir and J Rock Dancers performed on the main stage.
The Festival was organised by Nutmeg in association with Genesis Housing. Everything at the event was entirely FREE and included food, music, performers, prizes, face painting, bouncy castles, a carousel, rodeo bull, sumo wrestling & more!
National ‘Dance Off’ Finals
Then on Monday 11th July they head off to Birmingham’s Alexandra Theatre to take part in the national finals of The Great Big Dance Off! Want to read more? Then click…
Year 2 Drumming Showcase
Year 2 performed to an audience of family and friends on Monday 11th June. As part of Woodcroft’s commitment to providing an extended music curriculum they have had a weekly drumming workshops with Mr Shaverin from BEAT. Year 2 built on the success of the Spring Term’s spectacular Samba drumming with Ollie Tunmer from Beat Goes On, learning traditional drumming rhythms and traditions from West Africa. This fantastic concert was both a culmination of Year 2’s hard work and the final musical showcase of the school year – well done to the Year 2 staff and pupils, and all our amazing musicians at Woodcroft!