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oodcroft choir performed as part of BEAT’s ‘Play On’ concert at the Royal Albert Hall on Thursday 23rd April.
You can watch a video of the evening by going to the Barnet Education Arts Trust (BEAT) website http://www.playon2015.co.uk/
Woodcroft pupils had an amazing day – click on the photo below to see a gallery of our experiences; from lunch in Kensington Park, through our afternoon rehearsals and finally to the spectacular evening performance!
Our school basketball team, the ‘Woodcroft Wildcats’ took part in the Barnet Basketball Tournament against teams from across the borough. In their pool matches they succeed in achieving a very creditable 1 win, 1 draw and 1 loss. They were eventually knocked out in the quarter finals by the eventual winners.
Well done Wild Cats! Click on the image below to see them in action…
Click on the image above to see the Wildcats in action!
Welcome back to the start of a new term. We hope that you had a good break and enjoyed the Easter sunshine! This term is always especially busy with trips and events so we will be distributing the summer diary sheet on Friday.
Woodcroft already provides excellent information to parents through our weekly published newsletter and website. However, in response to questionnaire feedback about receiving even more notice about events we have introduced a new School Calendar facility on this website. This online, interactive, Google calendar will enable parents to keep up to date with all of the latest information. Go to our School Calendar page or click the icon on the right. Can I recommend that you select ‘Agenda’ view from the tabs available if it doesn’t do so automatically, This will display a handy list of all events throughout the term. We hope that you find this new feature useful.
NB: Please note that Google have identified and issue with the web calendar not displaying on certain devices. We have therefore provided a direct link on the Parent Calendar if parents experience difficulty viewing.
Following our Music Award and Spring Concerts, Woodcroft has featured in two newspapers over Easter. Read both of the articles below.
The Times Series of newspapers wrote a feature that can be read at: http://www.times-series.co.uk/news/11885555.Award_for_school_that_sings/
Barnet Press reporters came along to our Spring Concert and wrote the article below. Click on the image or link to the read: Woodcroft Music Maestros
Or you can visit the Barnet Press website to read the digital edition of the this week’s newspaper that was published on the 2nd April.
Our fabulous musicians and choir performed a wonderful Spring Concert on a glorious sunny evening in March. Pieces by our Senior Choir, Flute Ensemble, Guitar Group, and String Ensembles were enjoyed by a full audience of family and friends.
After the show our Chair of Governors, Liz Court, presented flowers of thanks to our instrumental teachers and to Miss Sherring, Music Leader, for all of their exceptional work culminating in our recent national award.
Then on Monday morning our entire Y3 performed as a 60 piece ukulele band to parents and carers in a very special assembly.
Click on the photo below to view the concert gallery.
The Woodcroft choirs and instrumentalists took a trip to the Royal Albert Hall on Friday 20th March to watch the outstanding Classical Spectacular. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra put on an amazing show supported by opera singers, ballet dancers, fireworks, canons and lasers!
Click on the photo below to share some of the amazing experience that we had!
Well done to all of the finalists in this year’s Woodcroft WOW Factor. They all performed wonderfully to friends and family in a fantastic show on March 17th. As usual it was a packed audience that thoroughly enjoyed the evening’s performances. Thank you to all of the staff for giving up their time to support this event. Click on the photo below to view the gallery…
The 2015 WOW Factor Finalists.
At a gala ceremony held on 12th March at The Grange St. Paul’s Hotel, Woodcroft won the award for ‘Best School Music Department’ 2015!
Mr Tallon (Headteacher) and Miss Sherring (Music Leader) collected the award on behalf of the school. They were joined at the prize giving dinner by fellow teachers; Miss Blythe, Mr Huckerby and Assistant Head Mrs Valoti. Also on the Woodcroft table was Lynn Holman-Fox, CEO of BEAT, Barnet’s Music Hub. The director of one of our sponsors, TutorHunt, and members of his family were also with us to share our success.
To be recognised by this award, as one of the best schools for music in the country, is an absolutely fantastic achievement. It is a credit to Ms Sherring and the whole music team, but most of all the pupils! Their dedication and enthusiasm to learn make it all worthwhile.
We had a fantastic night at the Music Awards, hosted by Music Teacher Magazine. Take a look at the photos below (click to enlarge). For more details about the awards visit the Music Awards website by clicking here.
Woodcroft would like to thank the Barnet Education Arts Trust (BEAT) and their instrument teachers for the support and opportunities they provide. We also owe gratitude to our sponsors Coreco and Tutorhunt for their on-going assistance, enabling us to provide inclusive music at Woodcroft.
We have been taking part in lots of Red Nose Day events today! We all came to school with decorated heads and in assembly the teachers took part in a Comic Relief Bake Off. Click here or on the picture to go to the full gallery of photos. We will update with the total raised very soon.
Click on the photo to view our Red Nose Gallery
On Monday 9th March Woodcroft hosted a cluster rehearsal in preparation for BEAT’s gala concert at the Royal Albert Hall on April 23rd. Our Senior Choir collaborated with 2 other local schools and worked with BEAT staff and members of the English Pocket Opera Company to rehearse works for the performance. Our pupils did an outstanding job at the rehearsal, and proved they are well on their way to a fantastic performance at the Royal Albert Hall!
Caitlin Sherring (Woodcroft Music Leader)
