Spring Term music at Crompton House started with the fabulous Guys and Dolls which featured many Crompton House musicians on the stage and in the pit band. A full report of this can be found on a separate page. There was then an early Saturday get-up for fifty of our younger pupils to travel to […]
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Congratulations to all the cast and crew of Guys and Dolls who took part in three fantastic performances of the classic American musical “Guys and Dolls”. The show was a triumph from start to finish, with excellent performances from everyone. Mrs Bacon started the rehearsals in January and by 2nd February the talented team
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The school musicians were very busy in December 2016. Over 150 musicians took part in 9 events over 3 weeks. The brass musicians started the Christmas season playing for the Oldham Metro Rotary at their Christmas Concert at St James Church, Derker. A few days later the Brass Ensemble played a selection of carols for a
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On Thursday 7th July at 6am, the Crompton House Brass Band assembled at school for a coach journey to Birmingham to perform at the National Festival of Music for Youth. The 35 pupils were just a small number of the 10,000 musicians who were taking part in the biggest youth music festival in the world, and
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On the 6th of July we held our annual summer concert at St James Church Derker where musicians across all year groups came together to perform and celebrate the end of another successful musical year. There were performances from the Senior Wind Band, Guitar Group, Brass Ensemble, Senior Choir, Senior Orchestra and the Brass Band
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Joseph and his Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, performed by a cast of over 70 of our youngest pupils was a fantastic success. Directors Darcey McCoy and Megan Fielden from Year 12 with Mrs Hammond and Mrs Nixon put on a fantastically colourful show in just two months. All the pupils put in so much effort into
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Springtime Stars This spring term has provided an array of talent from the students both in main school and sixth form! February provided us with the terrifyingly brilliant production Little Shop Of Horrors directed by the fabulous Mrs Bacon with aid from Mrs Hammond as co-director and Mrs Harvey on lighting and sound. The musical
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The Spring Term ended with communion services and rewards assemblies followed by presentations for staff who were leaving. Governor, Rev Graham Hollowood of St Mark with Christ Church, Glodwick, led the worship at both services in the school hall with music provided by our Communion Orchestra and Choir. Meanwhile Mr Dunkley, the Heads of
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Many congratulations to our musicians who gave up their Saturday morning on 19th March to take part in the Music for Youth Regional Festival at Rochdale Town Hall. In total over 40,000 young people take part in the festival all over the country and the 70 Crompton House pupils performed brilliantly as the adjudications above
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Our Easter Concert on Wednesday 9th March was a wonderful mixture of school music groups with pupils from Years 7 to 13. The Senior Wind Band started the evening with two pieces they were entering in the Music for Youth Regional Finals at Rochdale Town Hall later in March. Director, Mr Meaden, and the audience seemed
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