Thursday 9th July 2009 - Wider Opportunities Showcase

Wider Opportunities Showcase

Ilford Town Hall, 9th July 2009

The Wider Opportunities program is a Government initiative that promises every Primary school child should have the opportunity to learn an instrument. This year, Year 4 have been learning to play the violin and a group of Year 4 children took part in the Wider Opportunities Showcase musical evening at Ilford Town Hall.

The evening featured children from a selection of Redbridge Primary schools playing Fifes, Violas, African Drums, Guitars and Percussion instruments.

It was a fantastic musical evening which everyone enjoyed. Our Year 4 children were superb and gave a wonderful performance of a selection of upbeat tunes and even managed to dance at the same time as playing!

Well done to the Year 4 violin players and the Redbridge Music Service Wider Opportunities teachers, Roberta Sullivan and Rebecca Kantor.

Thursday 18th June – Performing Arts Concert

Performing Arts Concert

We have some extremely talented children at Parkhill who took part in an evening of music and dance.



Children from throughout the school played a variety of different musical instruments, sang and performed a selection of dance styles.

Thursday 2nd July - Video Conference with Sarah Dyer

Video Conference with Sarah Dyer

The children in class 4D and 6C took part in two separate video conferences with Sarah Dyer, author and illustrator of children’s books.

Click here to visit Sarah Dyer’s website.

This event was organised by ArtisanCam and the London Grid for Learning (LGfL).

Click here to visit the ArtisanCam website. This is a great website to visit and find out about Art and Artists.

Click here to visit the LGfL website.

The children were able to speak to Sarah Dyer and Keith Alexander, (from ArtisanCam). They were able to ask Sarah a variety of questions as she talked about her work, showed them her books and even drew a picture. It was a fantastic experience and everyone enjoyed it.

Thanks to Sarah, Keith and everyone at LGfL for this excellent video conference.