Christmas Showcase 2017
Tickets for this year’s annual Christmas Showcase will go on sale from the finance office on Friday 1 December with an extra night added due to popular demand.
Tickets for this year’s annual Christmas Showcase will go on sale from the finance office on Friday 1 December with an extra night added due to popular demand.
Congratulations to Brooke Weston’s guitar teacher Mr Paul Balmer who has won three different awards at the 2017 Northamptonshire Pride Awards.
After weeks of dancing, singing and acting rehearsals students put all nerves behind them to perform their first night of ‘Grease’ to a packed out Weston Theatre.
Students from all year groups auditioned for the show in January and have worked together acting, singing, and dancing and assisting back stage with directing, managing, choreography, and costumes.
Brooke Weston’s drama teacher Ms Camilla Kerr has been selected from hundreds of applicants across the country to take part in the SSAT, School Students and Teachers Network Leadership Legacy project.
SSAT is the leading national provider of training and development for school leaders at all stages, they work together with schools to allow teachers to learn from their peers, measure improvements and celebrate each other's achievements.
Students from all years are invited to audition for the main roles in Grease the musical, a whole school production that will take place in May.
Rehearsals are scheduled to take place up to three times a week for main roles and twice a week for ensemble performers. Main roles include; Danny, Sandy, Kenickie, Frenchie, Miss Lynch, Patty Simcox, Eugene Florczk, Jan, Marty, Betty, Rizzo, Doody, Roger, Sonny Latierri, Vince, Johnny, Cha-Cha and Teen Angel.
Hundreds of students took part in this year's annual Christmas Showcase. The concerts featured acts including instrumentals, short plays, choral and classical arrangements and dances. Performers included Year 7 choirs, the Orchestra, Year 13 BTEC group, lower and upper school dance groups as well as Year 10 drama students.
Drama students from Year 9 have been entertaining Beanfield and Gretton primary schools with a shortened version of the story 'A Christmas Carol'.
Brooke Weston’s Acoustic evenings are held termly on Wednesday of week four. They are an open mic event where all students are invited to showcase their talents.
Monday 19th December sees Brooke Weston's annual Christmas Showcase where students will entertain the audience in a variety of acts from the performing arts.
Three of our students recently took part in a competition at the iconic Sadler’s Wells theatre with one of their teams winning a title in the hard-fought contest.
Charlotte Smith, Cameron Pickering and Caoimhe Magee all perform with Starlight Dance & Musical Theatre School. Several of its teams took part in the Mardi Gras dance competition at Sadler’s Wells where around 60 teams compete in different categories. Caoimhe was delighted when her team came third:
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