Barnhill Primary School P6/7 School Show Really Rocks

Yesterday evening Primary 6 and 7 pupils from Barnhill Primary School entertained us with a lively performance of The Rocky Monster Show. They played to to a packed and appreciative audience in the Grove Academy hall.
This rock’n’roll musical is billed as a “riotous mix of The Addams Family, Young Frankenstein and The Phantom Of The Opera."
There’s something for everyone in this show: plenty of freaky characters, from Professor Fenton to The Superbs girl band and, would you believe, Elvis brought back from the dead!
The Rocky Monster Show provided an entertaining and toe tapping evening which showcased the multi-talented young singers, dancers and actors in Barnhill Primary School. 
I particularly appreciated the cheeky chappy performance of Ross Butter who played Mungo. He clearly enjoyed his night in the spotlight but so did his fellow pupils who all turned in good performances. These young pupils sang their hearts out and danced their way to demonstrate that P6/7 pupils are a talented group that really rocks!

Buses, Brushes, Bobbies & Bleach - Barnhill PS Show

On Monday evening it was the turn of Barnhill Primary School to put on their P6/7 school show. They presented a lively and amusing performance of Buses, Brushes, Bobbies and Bleach. This was performed in the assembly hall of the New Grove Academy which is much better equipped and accommodating than the school hall in the primary school. It's good to see a primary schools in the Grove cluster already drawing on the outstanding facilities available in Grove Academy.

The show was built around short bursts of conversations around the breakfast table between a family group of two parents and their two children about to depart for work and school. This preceded musical and dramatic scenes on the main stage which took a light hearted look at life in school. I was impressed with the inclusiveness of the production involving all of the pupils in P6 and P7 as well as the enthusiastic dancing and singing and the clear diction of the pupils with speaking parts.

Staff at Barnhill Primary School are to be congratulated on reestablishing a P6/7 school play, which increasingly is a rite of passage prior to going up to Secondary School. I am sure many happy primary school memories will be made of this.

We'll Meet Again an Entertaining Show

On Thursday and Friday evening, P6 and P7 pupils from Eastern Primary School presented We'll Meet Again to packed audiences at the Bonar Hall in Dundee. This was a musical involving every pupil in the top two years of the school. Not content with the challenge of such an undertaking, the school circulated the main parts on each night.

We’ll Meet Again is entertainment as well as a learning experience for its cast of pupils and its audience. They share the opportunity to explore in drama and music what it might have been like to be an evacuee during the Second World War; both the fun and opportunities as well as the pain of separation in uncertain times without a mobile phone and email.

In the course of preparing for the production, pupils met members of Broughty Ferry Local History Group who had been researching and sharing their own experiences of growing up in Broughty Ferry in the 1930s. The programme notes also included extracts from the Eastern Primary school log in 1939/40 when its then pupils were evacuated to Brechin.

The solo and group singing was impressive and entertaining. The pupils, staff and helpers are to be congratulated for such an engaging and rewarding performance and learning experience.