West Grantham Federation Choir

The choir was formed in October 2008 by Miss Elaine Duggan (Earl of Dysart) and Mrs Debbie Foster (St Hughs). It has approximately 30 members and these include students from the Schools within the West Grantham Federation.

Over the past six months the choir has developed and is already showing a potential of being really good. The first performance took place during December at The George Centre. The students sang Christmas songs to shoppers passing by whilst raising money helped to raise money for Gifts Hospice. The Christmas theme continued and the choir took part in performances at Belvoir Castle and St Hughs Carol Service.

The choir had already shown that they could sing together as a group and create a wonderful sound. A decision was made to set the members of this choir a challenge. In January 2009, they were asked to learn a song but to sing it in two parts. The song that was chosen was where Love from Oliver is. The choir had just over 8 hours to produce a performance that could be taken to both the Grantham Music festival and The Easter Assembly at St Hughs.

On March 10th 2009 the choir performed alongside other choirs from the local area at the Grantham music festival. They sang ‘Consider yourself’ from Oliver, followed by ‘Where is love’. As they finished singing the round of applause from the audience said it all. To finish the term off the choir final performance took place at St Hughs as part of the Easter service. During the service the choir sang an unaccompanied version of Now the Green Blade Raises, and where is love. Both of these performances were outstanding - both Elaine and myself were close to tears.

We are both looking forward to developing further with this choir as the students are a credit to both themselves and the schools they represent.