On Monday 27th November an audience of 600 parents and students enjoyed the Great Baddow High School Winter Concert within the beautiful setting of Chelmsford Cathedral. 

The concert featured performances from all the extra-curricular clubs run by the music department (minus Percussion Club, Music Tekk Club, and The Rock Band Club who will all feature in our next concert).

Full details of our upcoming events can be found here.

There were collaborations between Art and Drama too with the Art department displaying their Christmas card entries whilst the KS4 Drama leads prepared three short sketches devised around winter poems selected by the students.

The evening had many highlights within the 80-minutes of music performed by our students but some of the credible mentions go to:

• Our exceptional Soloists: Hazel K (Y8) 'Tico Tico No Fuba' on Flute; Ava S (Y10) 'The Wizard and I' from Wicked the Musical; Luke M (Y10) 'Nocturne in Eb Major' by Chopin on Piano; Ollie K (Y13) with his own, very moving Composition for his friend Rosie; Jasmine A (Y13) 'Somewhere Only We Know' with the BSC; and Ben M (Y10) 'Evernore' from Beauty and the Beast.
• Our Readers: Ava M (Y11) and Iris O (Y10) who read winter poems.
• The BSC (Baddow Signing Choir) who made their debut at a Winter Concert and communicated the songs 'Mountain' (alongside Baddow Voices) and 'Somewhere Only We Know' which inspired over 70 students to learn the signs to the entire song on the day of the concert and join their performance at the Cathedral.
• Choir 16 (The Competitive Choir) also gave their debut live performances of 'Rise Up' by Andra Day and 'Seasons of Love'. There were lots of emotions after their outstanding performances and then the announcement that they have made it through to the final of the Stratford and East London Choral Competition (our first ever entry into competitive singing).
• The Year 7 Choir, consisting of 63 students who all learnt the song as part of the classroom curriculum, gave a heart-warming performance of John Farnham's 'You're The Voice' concluding their performance with an acapella refrain of the chorus with no conductor. They were an exceptional credit to themselves all night and have kickstarted their Baddow music journeys in style.

The extra nice part of the Winter Concert this year is that we are enjoying it all again on Friday 1st December performing to 150 students from Beehive Lane, Larkrise and Mildmay Prinary schools. This is our first matinee of the Winter Concert and we will thoroughly enjoy singing carols with the primary students who had been preparing them to perform.

Our thanks, as always, to the staff and parents who supported such an incredible event. We look forward to welcoming you all to our next events and the Music Department wish you a very merry Christmas.