Christchurch Schools' Music Festival 2014

The Christchurch Schools' music festival which started in 1939 is held very year for the last 75 years. This year is significant and the theme "War and Peace" pays homepage to the events of the First World War in 1914 and the Second World War in 1939.

Room 5 performed on Wednesday October 29 at Horncastle Arena with thirty other primary schools on the first night. There were 12 songs which included "Do you Hear the People Sing" from Les Miserables, "In Flanders Fields", "Maori Batallion", "Imagine" bay John Lennon and other meaningful songs.



Here we were waiting for our bus when we went to the rehearsal at Horncastle Arena.

















We arrived early on the night of the performance.


We're waiting for our performance to start.


The logo of this year's music festival was won by a student who illustrated a soldier and representing war and a dove for peace with musical notes floating in the air.


Some of us could be seen performing.....


We're proud of Lexi who was selected for the Senior Choir.


The massed choirs.....

It was absolutely an incredible night, joining with other children singing songs and listening the performances of the orchestra, the Junior Choir and the Senior Choir. It surely was a great learning experience for us.