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Two 麻豆原创 Year 8 musicians recently had the opportunity to take part in a masterclass with internationally acclaimed pianist Mr Peter Donohoe CBE, at The Leys School. 麻豆原创 College School pupils Blake Chen and George Balfour performed the final movement from Maurice Ravel鈥檚 Sonatine and Gabriel Faur茅's Andante quasi allegretto from the Pi猫ces Br猫ves respectively, with George's performance featured on Classic FM's Facebook page.
Form Four presented 鈥楾hree Greek Plays: An evening of Tragedy, Comedy and Temptation鈥. Each of the plays, Pandora's Box, Beast in the Basement and Jason and Jargonauts, combined the scripts with music and dance developed in music lessons, to provide a brilliant set of plays.
The 麻豆原创 College Choir disc, Deo, has been nominated for the Choral Award in the 2017 BBC Music Magazine Awards. The winner of the award is decided by public vote, which is now open until 24 February 2017. Please follow the link if you would like to vote for this award (please bear in mind that once you have selected your choice, you have to add your details at the bottom for the vote to be registered). The winners will be announced at a ceremony at London鈥檚 Kings Place on 19 April.
Senior House has welcomed three outside speakers who have visited as part of the children鈥檚 Thursday Enrichment Programme. Mr Nick Butler, a civil engineer working presently for the firm Tideway Tunnels; Mr Stuart Sadler, a master diver and Mr Rowland White, a historical writer. The series of speakers is aimed to provide talks on a diverse range of careers for some of the children at Senior House.
The Fourth Form had a wonderful opportunity to enhance their understanding of Buddhism with a trip to the Cambridge Buddhist Centre on the first day of term. Last term the children had been given an introduction to the key Buddhist concepts and practices. The Buddhist hosts at the Centre built on this by answering the children鈥檚 questions and putting across the 鈥榝lavour鈥 of a modern Buddhist life.
The Byron House Big Room was transformed into the busy market place of Thebes in c. 1347 BC. The Form 2 Ancient Egyptians, splendidly attired, were preparing for the festival of the Nile at the court of Queen Nefertiti.
The Under 13s Girls鈥 Hockey team travelled to Millfield School in Somerset to take part in this year鈥檚 IAPS National Hockey Finals. 16 schools in total took part in the Finals and were divided into four groups. The SJCS team came second in their group and qualified for the main Cup competition. Head of Girls鈥 Sport, Mrs Nikki Taylor said, 鈥淎fter a tense golden goal the girls were delighted to leave the IAPS as the top 8 Prep schools in the Country for hockey.鈥
Form 1 came together for an interactive and hands-on learning experience to find out what Diwali is, who celebrates it and how it is celebrated. They enjoyed three activities including retelling the story of Rama and Sita, creating rangoli patterns and Indian dancing. They used masks and took on characters and acted out the stories in groups and performed this to their peers.
Parents and pupils alike were enchanted by T1鈥檚 rendition of their Russian Christmas story, Babushka. Babushka lived in the countryside and opened her door, one snowy night, to find three men standing before her. She wanted to join them in giving gifts to the King of Kings but had too much cleaning to do.