April 2008 - Village Voices
April 2008 - Village Voices
April 2008 - Village Voices
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Hollesley School fantastic trumpets<br />
Friday 7th March…<br />
Tomorrow year 5, 6 will be playing their<br />
fantastic trumpets at the famous Snape<br />
Maltings! We have been working very<br />
hard and our trumpet teacher is very<br />
proud of us. We have been doing<br />
complete practices of the performance<br />
every day and are still doing an hours’<br />
work with our teacher on Friday.<br />
Everyone is looking forward to Saturday<br />
and most of us will probably be sweating<br />
in bed tonight! The sad thing is that we<br />
only have the short space of eight<br />
minutes to play our well known tunes.<br />
At the very end of the performances all<br />
of the schools that come tomorrow will<br />
sing a final song. We have recently had a<br />
lady in called Detta to teach us the song,<br />
and we think we all know the words<br />
(well most of them!) A few weeks ago<br />
she came in with two of her friends, who<br />
are also musicians; they came with a big<br />
cello and a loud, electric, base guitar. It<br />
helped to have the music played whilst<br />
we were singing. We now know a small<br />
fraction of what Snape will be like but<br />
we have a feeling that it will be much,<br />
much scarier! But we all look forward to<br />
playing there!<br />
Saturday 8th March,The<br />
Big Day…<br />
Everyone was looking forward to<br />
performing in the concert hall and some<br />
of us described how we felt: ‘we are<br />
happily, nervously, excited!’<br />
Everyone arrived bang on time and we<br />
all headed to our dressing room. It was<br />
really cramped and was a tight squeeze<br />
to fit everyone into the room with our<br />
luggage and trumpets. After a while a<br />
member of staff came in to tell us that it<br />
was our turn to do our rehearsal with our<br />
trumpets. Some of us couldn’t wait but<br />
others were really nervous even though it<br />
was only the rehearsal. After lunch we<br />
went for a walk to Iken but the footpath<br />
was closed so we played some games<br />
instead.<br />
Finally the performance came. There<br />
were eight schools performing in the<br />
concert and we found out that we were<br />
second from last. Just before we went<br />
onto the stage we had a few tears in the<br />
dressing room. Everyone walked on and<br />
we got the introduction from the piano<br />
and then we all started to play. When we<br />
were on our final song, ‘The Saints Go<br />
Marching In,’ the audience started<br />
clapping loudly along to it. Then we<br />
finished all the solos and forgot to walk<br />
off stage! Our Head teacher Mrs Wright<br />
was very pleased with us and we have<br />
already had some letters and phone calls<br />
from people saying how good we were.<br />
That really was an exciting night!<br />
School Reporters Kathryn Venediger<br />
and Simon Coates<br />
<strong>April</strong> <strong>2008</strong> page 6 www.villagevoices.org.uk