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For the fourth year running, Joe in Year 8 has made it into the National Children’s Orchestra – this year as part of the prestigious ‘main’ orchestra. Joe plays both the trumpet and the piano so has had a busy few days playing The Last Post in Remembrance Services in Dorchester and here at school. […]
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Over the summer, Mr Shortman visited Hardy’s Cottage and got chatting to one of the brilliant National Trust volunteers about the music making the three generations of Hardys enjoyed in their home. One thing led to another and, last week, our string quartet – the fabulously named Le Courgette Quartet – got to visit the […]
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Well done to all those who performed in Pupils’ Party Pieces last Tuesday – it was our first informal concert with a live audience in over a year! Mr Shortman opened the show with the following exerpt from Leslie Parkman’s book, ‘North Perrott Remembered’: “We had social evenings and song and dance events; these were […]
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It was a pleasure to welcome our bagpipes teacher, Rob Walker, into school last week for a potted history of the bagpipes to Years 3 and 4. Year 6 pupil, Harry, performed his first piece on the chanter (the stepping stone instrument towards learning to play the full set of pipes), and then Rob lifted […]
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In honour of Beethoven’s 250th anniversary, and in celebration of our music making during lockdown, we are thrilled to share this magnificent virtual arrangement of ‘Ode to Joy’, recorded by 78 Perrott pupils and staff during lockdown. Hats off to our extraordinary Director of Music, Mr Shortman, along with our entire music department and talented […]
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