Little Voices Festival

Date: Tuesday 15 July 2008

Following the huge success of our first Key Stage 1 music festival, Little Voices, last year, we decided to make this year’s event bigger and better by inviting more schools to participate. So on Monday 23^rd June St Edmund’s hosted Year One and Two children from four local Primary schools: Blean, Wincheap, St. Peter’s and Chartham. This made a total of 125 children altogether, including the Owls and Robins classes from Abingdon House.

The day was a huge success with all the children thoroughly enjoying the workshops, rehearsals and performance. They performed The Litter Muncher by Nikki Davies: a short ecological musical about the people of Lazy Daisy Village who don’t put their litter in the bin, but leave it all to the hard-working Litter Muncher robot. Eventually the workload becomes too much for him to cope with and he gives up, exhausted. This forces the villagers to see the error of their ways and eventually work together to make Lazy Daisy Village a clean, tidy and pleasant place to live.

My thanks to the staff who worked so hard with groups of children on the day, each bringing a different area of expertise to the event. Mrs Catherine Futcher and Miss Jane Elliott (music teacher at Wincheap) handled the music; Mrs Helena Millard worked with the children on the dance; and Mr Richard Austen covered the acting and voice projection.

The children had a wonderful day working and playing together as a team. They had an intensive but fun schedule and were delighted with the results. The parents’ and friends’ applause at the end said it all: Well done everyone!

Catherine Futcher