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Dear Cast ,
There will be a rehearsal for the whole cast on Tuesday the 5th November at 3.30pm. We will be giving out a new rehearsal schedule. Saturday rehearsals are planned – dates will be confirmed next week.
LEARN YOUR LINES AND LYRICS! NO SCRIPTS AFTER HALF TERM
Regards
Ms Christopher
The calm, shimmering boat
Travels down the dirty,
desolate canal.
Tragedy strikes!
Poseidon, the sea king,
Is taking over the boat –
Thrashing this way and that
Trying to take over
But it will never happen.
The currents
Sweep the boat
Into a whirlpool…
The golden sun glistens
On the
Clear reservoir of water
as the boat bobbs on.
The purity of the water
finally creates a calm as the boat
recovers from its latest
trauma.
By René – Year 8
Term had barely started when the English Department made their first extra- curricular visit of the academic year to The Queen Elizabeth Hall on London’s Southbank. Ten year 8 students and one year 11 student, supported by Ms Bolton, Ms Campbell, Mr Guyver and Mr Warner, braved rush hour traffic on Wednesday 18th September to reach the Southbank for a spectacular celebration
As part of the Southbank Centre’s Literature and Spoken Word Season “REVOLUTIONS” twenty -seven leading writers, musicians and poets read twenty-seven extracts from Mr Mandela’s autobiography “Long Walk To Freedom” .
The evening was insightful yet entertaining and our students were easily the youngest members of the audience. The performances ranged from moving extracts where we learned what Mr Mandela went through on Robben Island to his eventual release after twenty-seven years. Performers such as Sharon D Clarke sang, Beverley Naidoo read extracts and Gillian Slovo remembered her childhood in apartheid South Africa. In addition poets such as LInton Kwesi Johnson and author Ben Okri performed their own work. The two hours flew by and we all agreed it was wonderful to see and hear such a diverse range of performers.
