Art, Dance, Drama and Music at AGGS
Art, Dance, Drama and Music at AGGS
The annual Living Edge School’s Art Competition took place at The Lowry on Saturday morning and as usual the work exhibited by all of the students was very impressive.
Eve (Year 12) won first prize in one of the three category’s for her brilliant ‘beetroot’.
Her work has already been published in the March issue of the magazine and the winners will feature in the April edition.
Fabulous News!!!
Unfortunately, Vale’s time on the Greatest Dancer has now come to an end as they didn’t get through this week. You could watch their performance this week on BBC iplayer. They were the 2nd performance of the evening.
What an amazing achievement for Grace and her team to get to the last 7 acts and a fantastic experience to be involved in the process and all those live shows.
They will have one last chance to perform in the live final, with all 12 of the final acts, on Saturday 7th March on BBC1. They have also been asked to appear on Blue Peter!
Mrs Anstey
Our whole school musical will be Chicago in July 2020. Students in Years 7, 8, 9, 10, 12 are invited to participate. You will need to be free to rehearse every Tuesday after school 3:30-4:45pm in the hall. Just turn up to the first rehearsal on Tuesday 14th April. If you want to audition for a main part, you must attend a music audition on Wednesday 19th February or Friday 21st February plus attend the dance and drama audition on Thursday 20th February. You must sign up for a time slot on the sheets outside the drama studio, and prepare one of the songs on the notice. Please see the posters outside the drama studio for more information, or speak to your dance / drama / music teacher.
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Grace S (Year 10) performed an amazing dance on The Greatest Dancer on Saturday evening with her dance school, Vale.
Here is the link to their dance in case you missed it:
What an outstanding performance! Huge congratulations to Grace, we are so proud of you!
Good luck to Grace, and Vale, for the upcoming callbacks in a couple of weeks time. We have everything crossed hoping you get through to the live finals. We will all be watching The Greatest Dancer on BBC1 on Saturday evenings.
It was an annual treat to have the opportunity to reflect and sing at St Mary’s church, Bowdon during our traditional Nine lessons and Carols. Junior, Senior and Chamber choirs sang beautifully and Sneha R and Sreya D also serenaded us on playing saxophone.
It was wonderful to hear the whole school sing carols, and for the readers to do so with professionalism.
Thankyou to St Mary’s bellringers, Mr Bryan their organist and to Rev Ian Rumsey for helping us reflect as a school community on what Christmas means to us.
Almost all of the money has now been raised to buy the new Schimmel piano for Treetops practice room.
Thankyou SO much to all parents, staff and students who have contributed generously in any way towards this.
We have just 18 piano keys left to be sponsored – just £10 each.
If you would like to sponsor one, please email Reception@aggs.bfet.uk and send cash for this please in an envelope, clearly labelled ‘Piano key sponsorship’.
Please do follow the Music Dpt on twitter where you can see a plan of the keyboard and which keys are left, and also a picture of the beautiful Schimmel piano