Work & Events Blog

Charlton Park Academy has been very busy these last two weeks. Not only has one of our year groups been to Woodlarks for a two day trip where they built a campfire, made a radio show and met a gorilla, but Sara Williams came in for National Poetry Day and incorporated sensory objects and movement into the poetry sessions. Some of our aquatic students became swimmers of the week and have been duly awarded  with certificates; Greenwich Time came in to do an article on our Sports Award status and now we are preparing for:

World Food Day - Tuesday 16 October

The World Food Programme (WFP) is an organisation that fights hunger worldwide, saves lives during emergencies and works for long term solutions to hunger. On Tuesday 16th October it is World Food Day (WFD) and here at Charlton Park Academy, we think it is very important to recognise how fortunate we are to have school meals in the UK and other privileged countries of the world! WFD celebrates what organisations - such as The World Food Programme - does for children who without a meal provided by food aid, would go hungry and consequently not go to school.

For WFD some classes at Charlton Park Academy will be offering soup, pizza, burgers, salads and baked treats to raise money for the WFP and contribute to providing school meals for children every day in the countries that need it most. With a nutritious meal every day children are able to function at school, complete their studies and realise their dreams! I know that without food to fill my stomach and fuel my brain power I would find it very difficult to face school or work every day!

Find out more about the school meals incentive on the WFD website

Some of the food provided will be prepared using vegetables grown in the school vege trugs. Any donations will be much appreciated if you want to add to our contribution.

The Taming of the Shrew at the Greenwich Theatre - Friday 19 October 7pm

Charlton Park Academy is playing a vital role in Shakespearean performance at the Greenwich Theatre on Friday 19 October. The Shakespeare Schools Festival organisation have arranged for schools across the country to perform Shakespeare at their local theatres. However, the organisation encourages young people to have their own input and twist on proceedings. Charlton Park Academy are sending 10 young brave and creative students to perform extracts of ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ including not only real text from the play but also with a cockney musical twist.

In the first half of the musical play, devised by Patrick, Rachel and the cast of students, we see the students working as a team to coordinate hand bell ringing along with some makeshift trumpet playing. The second half sees the students bring a huge sense of comedy and acting to perform well known snippets of songs we all love to accompany some of Shakespeare’s text.

It will be an evening to remember and tickets are available from the Greenwich Theatre website
box office number 020 8858 7755

What will next week bring to our school!

Key stage four perform A London Romance - The Production was a culmination of a whole years work in which every student played a big part including writing the script, set design, choreography and lighting….see and read more

Charlton School appears on the BBC News - Monday 23rd February

Celebrating the work of Keith Parks and his book - Popular bible stories which have been re-written  - in cockney rhyming slang. See the work of Keith and students in call and response sessions.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7906852.stm

The Call and Response drama group were invited to Spencer House by the charity KIDS to perform Romeo and Juliet. Look at pictures taken and listen into PJ’s recording of their performance.

Stage Right, an all inclusive performing arts project has just started as an after school club at Charlton School.  Run by Greenwich Academy of Music and Drama and with the help of staff from school, students’ access music, drama and dance through various activities.  This term students have been developing their drama skills and have been learning lots of news songs.  Watch this space for details of our first performance later in the year.

The Bard and Building schools for the future  at the House of Commons 15^th May 2008

Charlton students perform at the house of commons  to a an audience of MPs and Partnership for schools.

The Call and response drama group  performed an extracts of Romeo and Juliet using 4 languages, extracts of Shakespeare’s text , key signs from BSL and words and phrases Arabic and Hebrew.

We will be performing Twelfth Night at the next  Shakespeare Schools Festival in October 2008 , PJ  as youth director .

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On April 1st 2008 the drama group received rapturous applause for their production of Grease. It was a fantastic day, with the sound of Summer Nights, Grease Lightning and much more being heard throughout the school. Well done to everyone involved…………..

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The Shakespeare Schools Festival took place in the first week of February, when over 20,000 pupils from 1,100 schools performed Shakespeare in 100 theatres throughout the uk.

A group from Charlton Schoool………..

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Pupils from C5 were joined this year by a number of pupils from the Royal Hill site for integrated drama and poetry activities. All this activity developed from the successful participation of a group of Charlton School teenagers in the one-off event, sponsored by the BBC, of the Shakespeare Schools Festival ‘One Night of Shakespeare’.