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This has been a very musical week. On Tuesday, twelve of our children took part in the Trust music evening. It saw performers from all five schools in the Trust come together at the Alban Arena to showcase not only their individual talent, but also the huge array of talent across the Trust.

We were treated to jazz bands, orchestras, dance routines, duets and individual solo performances – there was even a Trust staff choir.

In all of these the children of Harpenden Academy had two roles. One was to take part in the primary orchestra which is embryonic at the moment. Edith Winter’s mum commented that Edith had really enjoyed playing in a wider situation. I am hoping that now we have a primary orchestra we can do more events together. The second role was for some of our children to take on solo or duet performances. 

Luca Gray played the violin, Owen Po played the saxophone, Phyllis and Clemency Venner played a violin duet. All performances were brilliant and the children were a real credit to their families but also our school.

Next year we hope to return with the members of choir who were missing this time due to their previous commitment to Voices in a Million.

It was a lovely evening with our children being inspired by the older children and adults being amazed at the pool of talent we have in school for children of such young years. Mrs Curnow, Mrs Moss and myself were all very proud of the orchestra and the individual children’s achievements.