Christmas lunch and Sixth Form Revue

On Wednesday this week the whole Senior School enjoyed a delicious Christmas dinner, before watching the annual tradition of the Sixth Form Revue. There is strictly no photography permitted but we can disclose a few highlights of what was, as ever, a hilarious and superbly executed performance.

Sixth Form students secured a number of teachers to dance, act and sing alongside them – with Mr Wade Melville and Miss Esther Roberts performing ‘You’re the one that I want’ from Grease, supported by Mr Mike Hemingway and Mr Darren Kelly amongst others. Another great sketch saw Mrs Emma Fisher and Miss Aodain Fleming judging X Factor style auditions for the school choir Allegro, in which Mrs Kay Dodsworth’s beautiful balletic performance, Mr Daniel Bennett’s ‘gangster priest’ classical song, and Mr Paul Mallabone’s extremely high pitched tune were all given a resounding ‘No’! Miss Kim Cooil accompanied by a number of students as well as Miss Sonia Josiffe, Miss Jane Earley, and Mrs Jackie Ewing enacted an excellent Hakka, and Mr Bennett played the part of himself running one of our annual days of reflection – in which he asked the girls to shut their eyes, before playing a CD of himself allowing him time to read a newspaper and even leave the premises!

We enjoyed a skit set in the staffroom which saw many of the Senior Leadership Team drinking wine and taking selfies (apparently this is what students think we get up to in private!). The finale of the Revue was a song by Sixth Form students, set to the tune of Aqua’s Barbie Girl but with their own lyrics including “not a nunnery, more like funnery” and each verse ended with “once a St Mary’s girl always a St Mary’s girl”. This hilarious occasion of girls and staff members working together in happy collaboration is an example of our school at its very best and truest.