Dear Parents, Friends and Carers

Copenhagen Girls’ Choir

We have been really privileged to host the Copenhagen Girls’ Choir as part of their tour of the UK.  The choir of around 130 girls comes from the Sankt Annæ Gymnasium, which is the Copenhagen Municipality’s official choir school.  The choir have sung in extremely famous places on this tour:  Durham Cathedral, St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh. Great St Mary’s in Cambridge and St Katharine’s in London.  After such grand venues, they also performed at St Peter’s and St Paul’s in Pickeringand Lady Lumley’s school hall.  It was almost magical to hear their voices floating along the corridors of the school on Tuesday morning.  Our staff and students have been hosting the girls and their teachers and they found the experience of staying in real English houses rather than hotels one of the high spots of their time here.  Thanks to Clive Wass for his involvement in bringing the choir to Pickering and to all those who helped and hosted our visitors.  We have an invitation back to Copenhagen to experience the hospitality of the Danish families and we hope to be able to take then up on this generous offer.

And closer to home, Martin Higham took a group of 11 Year 8 students to Ryedale Folk Museum to present to the museum bird and owl boxes.  These boxes had been made by the students when in Year 7 during a Whole School Curriculum Day.  The directior of the museum, Kevin Sims, hopes the boxes will help attract wildlife around the museum.  Kevin has kindly invited students back to the museum to survey the site and see the effectiveness of the boxes and hopes that future students wil be able to make more of these boxes to add to the site.

Richard Bramley

P.S.  Hope everyone has a good Easter.