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Bringing forth musical talents

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Music at Greendown goes from strength to
strength. The Music School has expanded yet
again, with 147 students now receiving tuition
from 8 instrumental teachers. Tuition is avail-
able in singing and ten instruments, from flute,
violin and piano to electric guitar or eupho-
nium! Two new practice rooms have been built
over the summer to make more space for music
teaching.
The Greendown windband practises weekly,
and Mr André Psyancyn, our Head of Music, is
expanding the string orchestra this year.
Left: Our classical musicians entertained
parents and friends at their summer
concert

We have some very talented performers in Greendown.
In the summer, our musicians performed two very different
evening shows. The first was a 'rock' night which was so
popular that the audience demanded three encores! The
second night was a classical night of string and woodwind
music which was also greatly appreciated by the audience.
We hope to expand these shows this year. In September
we welcomed sixty new year 7 musicians; so there is plenty
of talent coming through!
Right: The rock students at their summer concert
- and the crowd screamed out for more!

Collection captures Into the future
CD Rom computer We run at least two foreign language trips each year to France and Spain.
Our students and their parents enthusiasti- These working trips are designed to be accessible and affordable, and over
cally collected ASDA vouchers last term and a quarter of our students have been abroad with Greendown.
gained us a brand new Pentium computer with Last summer's trip to La Rochelle was as successful as the spring
laser printer and stack of CD Roms for our visit to Rosas in Spain. Students visited Futuroscope,
resource centre. the Ile D'Oléron, Roman remains at Saintes, and the
Below: Chris Howe, deputy customer serv- Hennessy Cognac factory.
ices manager, front, and Lynda Hatfield, They also watched the European Cup
general store manager's secretary, from semi-final against Germany on French
ASDA present deputy headteacher Phil May television with another party
and upper and lower school students with - from Germany!
the new equipment.