AWAY WITH THE FAIRIES

The BRIT school entertained children from two of our local schools this week to see our year 10 dance/ technology show "Fazana and the Fairy Garden". Nursery children from Selhurst Early Years centre and Reception children from Broadmead primary school came to see the show that tells the story of a little girl who likes to play with her fairy friends at the bottom of the garden and also dance with her creepy crawly insect friends. The show was a cross curricular project between technology whose year 10 students created the set and costumes and year 10 dance strand students who performed. The nursery children got to have a dance as well at the end and pretend they were a frog and a spider under the guidance of our dance students. As well as entertaining our nearest and smallest neighbours the project also aims to engender the seeds of possibilities in the performing arts at an early age.

JAMMING AT THE PINEAPPLE CLUB

The Pineapple club is a radio project run by Leading Edge radio manager Jon Preston that invites senior members of the local West Indian community to come in and create their own radio show. Following on from their success last year the members of the Pineapple West Indian Luncheon club in Anerly have been in September and Christmas time and now this summer term to lay down their own mix of smooth Caribbean rhythms and interviews. Pineapple members work with some of the BRIT students to create the radio show from both in front and behind the microphone.

LITTLE BIG MENU PROVES A HUGE HIT!

Students from Saint Mary's Junior school have been into the BRIT school to work with Leading Edge radio manager Jon Preston and create their own show "The Little Big Menu". The aim of the project is to encourage an enduring interest in media and radio and develop teamwork amongst the children. The project has been running a number of years now at the school, each year bringing in year 6 students in their last year of Junior school to experience working in the BRIT radio studio.

Radio stars

St Joseph's school have been very happy with the impact of the Radio project on their year 9 & 10 students. Students from Saint Joseph's college in Beaulah Hill South East London have been working on a radio project with our Leading Edge radio manager Jon Preston through out terms 3 and 4 this year. The project has been created with the BRIT school and St Joseph's SENCO team to help engender positive involvement and learning amongst the students involved.