Somerhill Review 2023/24

THE SOMERHILL REVIEW 2023/24

Year 3 produced an excellent evening of poetry recitals.The school-themed poems were committed to memory and performed with great energy and enthusiasm. Year 4 entertained their audience with their retelling of Greek myths. Zeus, Orpheus, and Hades were all on show as the Year 4 pupils retold many of the well-known stories from ancient Greece. It was an entertaining production full of comedy and laughter.

Year 5 The ESB project allowed Year 5 pupils to practise and polish their public speaking skills.The pupils showed great independence as they chose a poem to memorise and perform, carried out sight reading from a book of their own, and produced and performed a speech on a subject of their own choice. Year 6 performed in the Shakespeare in Shorts project, where each of the Year 6 forms produced their own abridged version of a famous Shakespeare play. The plays are an introduction to Shakespeare in that the characters and plot lines remain the same, but the adaptation is presented in modern language with a flavour of Shakespeare’s language and poetry.

Year 7 performed Treasure Island in a project that was led by Konflux Theatre Company. In just two days, in workshop style rehearsals led by a Konflux practitioner, the pupils devised their rendition of the classic pirate story.The boys worked with focus and energy and produced a great piece of theatre. Year 8 did not do a ‘production’ as such but devised and wrote a great Christmas comedy in lessons, which they recorded as a ‘Radio Play’. Unfortunately, the boys could not present the comedy to a live audience due to cast illnesses and the busy Christmas term.

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