On Monday, the children who have been learning Piano and Recorder took the stage and performed in front of an audience of parents and peers.
It was a beautiful concert, and quite an emotional one, as siblings performed duets together. Thank you to Alice, their teacher, for organising the concert and all your hard work leading up to it.
What a show! After weeks of auditions and rehearsals, all of the hard work finally paid off with three incredible performances of this year's production - All Aboard the SS Galaxy.
Inspired by his daughter's choice in music from a popular children's TV show, Mr Mansell began the work of writing the script well over a year ago.
The play certainly had everything, young astronauts, proud and loving parents, space pirates, aliens playing air guitar, news reporting at its very best as well as the usual singing dancing and ad libbing!
What was incredible to see was the infectious enthusiasm and effort that the children put into their performances, resulting in a show to remember!
This morning we gave a performance of the African Drumming piece we have been learning. Unfortunately we cannot display the video online, but we are able to provide an audio track in case you were unable to be at the performance. If you would like to watch the video, please speak to Mr Mansell.
Many thanks to Mrs Livermore for her excellent tuition over the last five weeks. We feel privileged to have taken part in this and hope to see her back again next year.
Yes, this is our 400th Blog post, and what better way to mark the occasion than by sharing with you the best bits of our school carol service.
We begin with a beautiful rendition of Away in a Manger, with the first verse sung by Red Class, and all classes singing verses 2 and 3.
Next is the heart-warming, if rather high, Hark the Herald Angels Sing, sung by the whole congregation.
This is followed by two songs from the School Choir: Snow Song and White Christmas.
I would like to post the Staff Choir's 12 Pains of Christmas here too, but don't have any photographs. If you happened to take a shot or two, please email them to me at jamesmansell@earlsoham.suffolk.sch.uk and I will add them to the blog.
Since this post is a rather special milestone, we would really like it if you could take a moment to leave us a comment and let us know what you think of our blog. Whether you have commented before, or are completely new to it, we would love to hear what you thought of the carol service (if you were there), or what you like most about our school blog. It's really easy to leave a comment - just visit the blog and click the comment button. You can leave a post anonymously, or sign in and leave your name.
Having started the road to this production way back in September when the children started putting their ideas for the script together, three tremendous performances were held earlier this week. Jeremiah '2' The Misty Mountains was the sequel to our play 'Jeremiah in the Dark Woods' performed two years ago. After a term of hectic writing and editing, a script was produced which them evolved into something rather special.All of the children took part in what could be described as a bizarre journey through fantasy land with lots of singing, dancing, acting and props with attitude!
With only a day to go before the 'big day' I thought you might like a bit of a teaser trailer. Here are some photos taken during rehearsals to whet your appetites.
The end of the summer term saw the performance of our whole school production 'Jeremiah'. The photographs in this piece are from one of our last rehearsals before the three shows to parents and members of the local community.
The play follows the story of young Jeremiah Obadiah Jackenory Jones who is on the hunt for the 'No good robber' who has stolen his Grandma's jam tarts.
On his journey through the Dark Woods, Jeremiah comes across a number of interesting characters, including: Horatio Malvolio Gladiolio D'Arcy Fitz-Henry IV... Captain and Mrs Dawkins... A crocodile with a ticking clock inside it... The Mad Hatter... Gameshow host, Robert Nunbungalow... A dinosaur... Three bears...A group of grannies (including one that looked surprisingly like Mr Mansell)...
A teenage wolf... And quite a few others.
The children also performed a number of songs and dances which were 'absolutely brilliant'. The audiences lapped up the tremendous efforts of the children which were more than sprinkled with some subtle (and not so subtle) humour.
It just goes to show what can be achieved with a bit of hard work and support. All-in-all, a fantastic end to a very busy term.
There are more photographs of the actual performances on show in the school hall.
The play follows the story of young Jeremiah Obadiah Jackenory Jones who is on the hunt for the 'No good robber' who has stolen his Grandma's jam tarts.
A group of grannies (including one that looked surprisingly like Mr Mansell)...
