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Summer term music results

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

Huge congrats to the girls for the music exams that they took this term: Anna scored 130, scraping a distinction in her Grade 5 Bassoon. Strangely enough she also scored 130 in Grade 5 piano and cello when she took them a while back!
Abbie took Grade 3 flute and scored a respectable 126, giving her a merit, and her best music exam result so far. She got full marks for her aural!

Josiah hasn’t taken any music exams this term, but he is still pleased to hold the family record for points ;)

Klaudia

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Much excitement today; in the middle of the festival we popped off to Devon Strings Workshop to collect Anna’s cello, henceforth to be known as Klaudia, which I hope is a German enough name!

Klaudia

Looks a bit odd in the photo but sounds amazing – looking forward to hearing more of it (her?!) in the future.

Prince Charming goes to school

Monday, March 8th, 2010


There are advantages to being small and skinny when you can still wear your brother’s age 5-7 dressing up clothes to school for fairy tale character dress up days at age 13!

As suspected …

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Anna didn’t really need good luck yesterday. Steve dumped her at the door and drove off, as he couldn’t park anywhere (also unsurprising!), so she sorted herself out, and got on fine.

She came home with three lots of homework – one of which is going to test her as it’s revising a whole load of science that she hasn’t done, but no matter!

She also arrived back with a planner full of days to remember instruments; Wind Orchestra one day, String Chamber Orchestra another – and a couple more groups besides. Thinking about it, she hasn’t mentioned choir yet! I suspect all of these groups have lots more pupils in them, and aren’t just a mish-mash of other random instrumentalists who happen to be in the school ;)

The friend she made yesterday apparently is also taking Grade 6 piano soon so at dinnertime they went and practised together.

All of these things are exactly the reasons we wanted to make a change, so Steve and I are happy. She got home and whipped through homework and music practice so that she could go out to the local youth club, where she still sees most of her best friends from Pinhoe, so I think she was happy too :)