Spring Music Festival

The Spring term at Gad's Hill ended in spectacular style with the annual Spring Music Festival. For the second year running the festival was divided into a Junior School event and a Senior School event, simply because of the number of talented musicians taking part.

We were honoured this year to be joined by WO1 Craig Philbin, Bandmaster of the Band of the Corps of Royal Engineers and Sgt. Ken Ferguson also from the Royal Engineers Band, who were our adjudicators for the evening.

Congratulations to Robert Hunt and Olivia Thompson, who were awarded Best Boy and Best Girl at the Junior Music Festival and to Lorelle Le Grove who was the overall winner in the Junior School.

In the Senior Festival Best Boy went to Tommy Lee Wellard, Best Girl to Holly Crowter and the overall prize was shared by Charlotte Ellis and Rebecca Morley for their outstanding performance of 'Defying Gravity' from the musical 'Wicked'.

Fittingly, in a competition dominated by fantastic vocalists, the 'Most Outstanding Performance' award, went to the newly formed Chamber Choir, made up of the school's finest singers. This award is a new award this year, generously donated by the Royal Engineers. The trophy comes with an incredible opportunity tied to it, in that each year the recipient of the award will be invited to perform with the Royal Engineers Band at their Christmas Concert.

Director of Music John Stone said, ' We were hugely honoured that both WO1 Philbin and Sgt. Ferguson agreed to join us for this event. Both men are professional musicians of the highest standard and I hope they will prove to be an inspiration to all our young musicians. I would like to thank both Craig and Ken as well as the Royal Engineers for donating this fantastic prize and for also giving our Chamber Choir, what can only be described as the opportunity of a lifetime. Congratulations not just to our winners but to all of the performers on the night, it takes many musicians and many hours of practising to put on a great show and they did just that'.