Fantastic Grimm Tales!

Last week I mentioned that I hadn’t yet seen the annual school production, which this year was ‘Collected Grimm Tales’, and so it would feature in this week’s blog instead.

We’re very fortunate as a school that we have such a dedicated team of staff who are willing to put on a school production each year, and for many years that production has been a musical type show. ‘We Will Rock You’, ‘Bugsy’, ‘Annie’….that kind of event. This year, for the first time in a long time, the staff opted for a play rather then a musical. The change was in my opinion well worth it, as it gave staff and students a different set of challenges to overcome. By selecting a range of fairy tales by the brothers Grimm, we were able to include a huge cast working in different performance troupes, each directed by a different member of staff. This clever approach maximised the number of students involved, leading to (I think) the largest ever cast with speaking parts that we’ve ever had.

I thoroughly enjoyed the show last week and it was great to see the hall completely full. The lighting, set design, costumes and music really added to the magical atmosphere, and showcased the students’ work very effectively. Not only that but the variety of performance on show was fantastic, incorporating puppetry, shadow work and dance. As usual we were able to also put on a couple of matinee performances for local primary school pupils, and we were thrilled with the following feedback:

We wanted to take the time to send this email to thank you for inviting us to watch Grimm’s Tales yesterday afternoon. Our children absolutely loved the performance and particularly enjoyed seeing children that had previously attended Rose Hill. In the words of one Year six pupil: ‘I loved how everything was so clear and you could really tell what was happening because of the way that we were sat. I thought the music was beautiful.‘

So, well done to everyone involved – young and less young – it was a great show and one that you should all be very proud of.

Here’s to next year!

Thanks,

Joe Barker

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