Here we are, at the beginning of another Season of Lent! I really think I am feeling my age as this seems to come around quicker every year!!!!!
The word ‘Lent’ is taken from the Anglo-Saxon and means ‘Spring’ or ‘Lengthening.’ Lent is that time of year when the days lengthen. The season begins on Ash Wednesday and culminates in the celebration of Easter. This coming Wednesday we celebrate Ash Wednesday. Key Stage Two classes will be attending the 9.30am mass in church where ashes will be distributed. Fr Frank will then come across to our school hall for a short Liturgy when our Key Stage One classes will receive their ashes.
Fr Frank and Fr Chris have produced a Lent Booklet which contains ideas for activities during Lent but also highlights the times of masses and services up to and including Holy Week and the Easter Triduum. Please have a look so that you know when and where these will be.
Family Music Concert
On Saturday 19th March 2022 we are delighted to have been invited to join the Blackpool Symphony Orchestra for their centenary celebrations.
BSO enjoys a special relationship with Our Lady of the Assumption RC Primary in Blackpool as their ‘Orchestra in Residence’.
Over the past ten years the orchestra has worked on a range of projects staging concerts in the school, joint performances in professional venues and opportunities for the school band to rehearse with the BSO music director. The orchestra rehearses on a weekly basis at our school, putting it at the heart of the community.
BSO's centenary concert plans for 2022 include a concert at Fleetwood's Marine Hall on Saturday March 19th, in conjunction with pupils from Our Lady of the Assumption, which is specially designed to introduce new audience members and youngsters, to the joys of live orchestral music.
Music will include highlights from Beethoven’s famous 5th Symphony , Mussorgsky’s Night on a Bare Mountain, 'Mars' from Holst's The Planets and many other classical favourites as we perform a joint concert with them at The Marine Hall in Fleetwood at 3pm on that day. (See the Gazette report HERE.)
For this concert we have children from Year 2 who will be playing their glockenspiels with the orchestra and also our Year 5 & 6 choir who will be singing a sea shanty with new orchestral pieces written by our own Miss Benson. We will then have our instrumentalists who will be playing alongside the orchestra.
Rehearsals together with BSO begin this week and we are all very excited for this event.
Tickets for the concert can be found at: Tickets - Wyretheatres.co.uk
‘Much Ado about Nothing’
As part of Our Lady’s work as a Lead Associate School with The Royal Shakespeare Company, Mrs Ormerod and Mrs McVey have produced some scenes with Year 5 for this years Shakespeare Playmaking Festival at The Grand Theatre Blackpool.
This is an amazing opportunity for the children as they get to perform scenes from Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado about Nothing’ on the Grand Theatre Stage directed by an R.S.C. lead actor mentor.
We are all really excited to see what the children have produced.
You can book tickets HERE through Blackpool Grand Theatre website. Our Lady of the Assumption is performing at both 1pm and 6pm on Tuesday 15th March only. Other schools participating in the Lead Associate Schools Festival are performing on Thursday 17th March. The tickets cost just £10 for adults and £7 for under 18’s.
