The first major school highlight for us this year was Kayla's performance at the O2 Arena in London as part of the Young Voices mass choir. Hatch Ride Primary School entered their school choir into the event and I am so happy they did. It was an awesome experience.
I can now boast that my little girl performed at the O2 arena in front of 20000 people....
The children have been practicing since middle of last year and they had so many words that they had to learn. Practicing the songs without the soundtrack first, then with the soundtrack, then with the soundtrack and no song sheets. They worked really hard and it payed off.
Wanda, Waldo and I opted to go the arena on the coach that was arranged by the school, leaving the school almost on time at 4:45pm, making our way into London for a 7pm start. We did make it, only just made. We walked through the doors as they announced that the show was due to start....
What a sight to see between 5000 - 6000 children's choir filling a huge part of the arena, and when they started singing ... WOW I had goose bumps all over.
The show was absolutely great, loads of singing , brilliant dancing and just all round fun.
Now we had to get back home!! Back to the coach, don't pass go , don't collect the money, go straight to the coach after the event... we were told. Just a pity not everyone took it to heart. We had to wait 45 minutes for people , who either got lost or wait for it .... decided to do a bit of shopping while there... never mind the 30 other people sitting on the coach waiting to go home.....
We arrived back at the school around 12:00, went home and the whole family went straight to bed .. absolutely exhausted.
I sincerely hope that the school decides to do this again next year as we will certainly sign up for it again...
For more info if you are interested go and have a look at www.youngvoices.co.uk
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