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The show Moving Online was a wonderful experience and I was so excited when I found out there would still
be a Junior School musical this year. Even better,
was a great way to make this year a little more
it had been created from scratch by our amazing
fun. We had a fantastic time filming all of the
goes on, videos and singing all of the amazing songs – teachers. I was delighted to be chosen to play
Elliot in Moving Online.
which are still stuck in our heads. It was quite
For me, some of the best bits were: learning
difficult to do this during a global pandemic and
albeit another lockdown but the teachers all helped us how to act in front of a camera, learning the
songs, coming together as a cast in the marquee
through the difficulties. They were certainly kept
on their toes with all of the different rules. Even
– singing and laughing all together and having
though there were lots of obstacles we managed some hot squash in a cup on a cold December
to pull together and create something that we are evening! In this experience I have made new
really proud of. Everyone involved did an amazing friends and been part of something really special,
‘Online’ job. The experience was fantastic and we would something that has never been done before and I
do it again in a heartbeat! will never forget it.
If there was a single image to sum up a year,
it could be any of the three opposite or the Emily Mann and Hollye Colles (P7) Sonny Wallace (P7)
one above, with pupils framed in rectangles.
Rehearsals for Moving Online began early in Term
1, with pupils gathering on the lawns or in the
playground marquee.
Thereafter, Term 2 could not have been less
conducive to putting on a show: the production of
Moving Online literally moved online.
Moving Online was finally released – online, of
course – in April, at a time when all pupils were
back in school following the easing of restrictions
on social distancing. The start of summer term
would look and feel different to previous sessions,
but there was, at least, a sense that a corner had
been turned.
Mr Jonny Muir

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