Coach Beth

Yes, it will run from 9:30 to 11:05am on Saturday mornings. They are abit behind with getting the website up and running unfortunatly! If you email them, you can get ahold of an application.

Yes, agree with the above. The drama option at the East Dulwich Academy of Music and Performing Arts will be 1.5 hours of drama/performing (not singing or dancing). And it's very local as it will take place at Goose Green Primary School (who are sponsoring the Saturday school) - it'll be nice to drop the kids off, then do the shopping on Lordship Lane or have a coffee with friends.

Hi all, It's the annual Christmas Carol sing-a-long on Goose Green in a few weeks! I'm really excited about it and wanted to share it all with you so you can get the date in your diaries. Join the Goose Green Primary School's children's choir and Goose Green Adult Community Choir for christmas carol singing, mulled wine and minced pies! This family friendly event is open to all - you'll find us in the middle of Goose Green, at 6pm on Thursday December the 19th. Rob Parton, school music teacher and director of the newly formed Saturday music & drama school, The East Dulwich Academy of Music and Performing Arts will be leading the festivities. (if you have a child interested in enrolling in the term starting on the 11th January, please email him at [email protected] for more information) The Goose Green Adult Community Choir (led by our choir director, local music teacher Dan Maitland http://eazypeazymusic.com/ ) is open to all members of the local community - we meet on Tuesday evenings, 6:30 - 7:50pm. If you'd like to join us in the New Year, our first rehersal is on Tuesday January 7th. Please email [email protected] for more information such as cost. Here is a link to our event on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/events/700778599940122/

ooh, I'd pay someone ?7.50 an hour just to make ME a substantial tea - cheaper than going to Sea Cow!

so, if you just finished watching 'The Choir' on BBC 2 and feel inspired, why not join the Goose Green Community Choir? We have no auditions!

The next Goose Green School tour is tomorrow, Tuesday 5th November. The tour with our headteacher - Sharron Marland will start promptly at 9:15am. No need to book but the tour starts promptly at 9:15am. The tour is followed by tea and coffee with existing parents in the annexe where you get a parent perspective on the school from parents, PTA members and parent governors. See you there!

I'm very happy with the school - my son is in year 4 and doing very well. In addition to the strong academics at the school, I'm particuarly pleased that his talent in art and music is recognised and able to be developed by a full-time art teacher (a art school graduate) and full-time music teacher (practicing musician and graduate of trinity college of music) There is a tour for prospective parents tomorrow morning - Tuesday 5th November. Come to the school by 9:15am (prompt start so come early if you can). After the tour, prospective parents can meet existing parents over tea and coffee and get a parents persepective on the school.

From Tuesday 5th November, we'll be gearing up for the Christmas season. So if you enjoying singing at Christmas, why not join us for the next 6 week half-term on Tuesday evenings, 6:30 - 7:50pm, at Goose Green Primary School. The two main songs we are focussing on this half term are a choral version of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah and Dona Nobis Pacem and we'll also be singing traditional Christmas Carols as well. Cost is ?20 (waged) or ?12 (low waged/unwaged) per 6 week half-term. Email me at [email protected] for more info and details of how to find us.

Yes, indeed it is a great resource! And tonight in the pub, we in the Goose Green Community Choir have decided that we would like to invite all the other choirs in East Dulwich to participate in 'The Great East Dulwich Choir Off' - we would like to have a fun, friendly evening of singing - each choir to sing a song or two AND then, having decided and circulated a song to our choirs prior to the evening, we can all sing together on one number. We would like to also use the evening as a chance to raise money for charity - in particular the Motor Neurone Disease Association for whom I do fundraising for at the moment. I shall be PM'ing all the choirs in this thread - we are thinking Feb/March 2014. Possibly EDT upstairs if we can all fit! I'll be in touch shortly but if organisers of other choirs are interested, do get in touch through sending me a PM.

Goose Green Community Choir is a very friendly and informal choir. Many of us have never sung in a choir before and many of us do not read music. We are led my local musician Dan Maitland and we do a pop/folk arrangements. We are currently working on Lean on Me, a special arragement of the tune by Dan. We meet on Tuesdays 6:30 - 7:50pm at Goose Green Primary School. We then go to the pub afterwards for post-choir drink and social. Message me if you are interested! Cost is on a sliding scale: ?20 waged for 6 weeks or ?12 low or unwaged.

Just a reminder that our friendly community choir is starting up again on Tuesday - if you are interested in coming along, drop me a message!

You could try Dan Maitland - he teaches guitar to kids. email [email protected]

Hello again! The new term for the choir starts on Tuesday 10th September, 6:30pm. If you would like to join a friendly and relaxed community choir, we'd love to have you! Many of us have no prior singing experience but we have great fun. Our talented musical director Dan Maitland leads us and does arrangements of favourite pop songs for us. Please email me - the choir secretary - at [email protected] if you are interested or PM me. Thanks!

The headteacher and the governing body (of which I'm a part) at Goose Green are very enthusatic about integrating the creative arts (as well as sport/physical activity) into the curriculum. One of just the many reasons for this is that there is research that shows that being involved in the creative arts has a positive effect not just in terms of those 'soft' outcomes like confidence and communication skills but on 'hard' outcomes i.e. academic achievement in literacy and numeracy. Here is a link to one study - US based but would hold true here. http://www.nasaa-arts.org/Research/Key-Topics/Arts-Education/critical-evidence.pdf Perhaps you can speak to the headteacher and governors pointing out how involving children in creative arts enriches achievement rather than detracting from achievement. Good luck anyway!

Having seen the show last night, I can say that it was indeed a hot ticket! It was wonderful - from the lead vocalist, to the singing narrators, to the crowd scenes. Very professional job all around! It was also great to see the range of parents turn out for the show - parents and children from the younger year groups came along so it felt like a production for the whole community - not just for the parents of the performers involved. Another parent at the school used to be a theatre reviewer for Time Out and said that it was just as good if not better than some of the productions she had to review!

Yes, at my son's school (Goose Green Primary School) there are three major productions each year. At Christmas time, the Year one and Two children put on a Christmas musicial. In feb/march, the year 3 & 4 children put which this year was the Wizard of Oz. And at the end of the summer term, the year 5 & 6 children put on an end of year show. This will be Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat which will be on next week. Tickets are available from the school office - there are performances Monday at 2pm, Tuesday at 6:30pm and Wednesday at 6:30pm. It helps that we have a full-time music teacher who takes the lead on the productions and our art teacher designs the backdrops and props involving children in art club & in art classes to make them. We pay a yearly membership fee to Southwark College's costume department and get our costumes from them. When we did refurb work at the school last summer, new theatrical lights were installed for productions and we've invested in good radio mikes as well. The children, parents and staff enjoy the productions throughly. Do drop into the office and buy a ticket for Joseph if you can - I can promise you it will be spectactular - I was in the hall when they were sorting out the backdrop and testing the ice machine!

It was great to see children from three Dulwich Schools - Goose Green Primary, St. Anthony's and Dulwich Hamlets at the launch of the poetry anthology of children's poetry edited by Michael Rosen on Tuesday night. All the children recited their poems beautifully and Michael Rose was ace. My boy was so excited to meet him! Great opportunity for all the children!

Not just your average school fete, the Goose Green Primary School will be taking over Goose Green for their annual family friendly festival for the whole community on the 6th July from 12-4pm. The day starts with a procession involving the entire school community. It will be led by the school Samba Band and will leave the school at 11:30am, going down Oglander Road and then up Adys Road to arrive at the Green at 12pm On the green, there will be games & activities for kids, market stalls by local entrepreneurs and a great line up on the festival stage. Our popular beer tent will be there again along with a number of food stalls. From 12:00-2:30pm, the stage will feature the schools own musical acts including: the children?s Steel Pan Band, the parents/staff Steel Pan Band, the school?s brass band, children?s choir & adult community choir and the lively samba band. At 2:30pm, the school acts will be followed by the popular local singer/songwriter Dan Maitland (also the choir director of the Goose Green Community Choir) performing his songs for a sunny day. The day will finish with the raffle prize draw. Raffle prizes include: 2 tickets to the Dr. Who Prom at the Royal Albert Hall, a Kindle Fire, and a host of other prizes from local businesses who have been extremely supportive of the school. I will post more information about the raffle prizes soon! Looking forward to seeing you there!

And don't forget the Goose Green School Fair and carnival on Goose Green on the 6th July from 12 - 4pm - I'm just about to post information on another thread. !

*edited due to posting in wrong thread!

It's the general school tour, primarily for people deciding where to apply for their kids next year but if your child is starting this September and you want to have another look around you are welcome to come along. There will be a meeting at the school later on before school breaks up for parents with children entering reception this coming September. *oops - crossposting!

School tour tomorrow at 9,15am, all welcome! Enter through the school gates on Tintagel Crescent and go to the school office. Please try to be on time as the tour sets off very sharpish. This is a great chance to meet the headteacher, have a look round the school and then join the PTA afterwards, we will be in the onsite breakfast/afterschool club annexe with cups of tea and coffee and maybe even a biscuit. See you there!

Just a note to say the choir is starting up again on Tuesday after the half-term break - we are working on the Sweet Honey in the Rock tune 'Breaths', California Dreamin; and a gospel version of Stand By Me. If you would like to come along, just send me a message so I can tell you where to go!

Just wanted to give a big congratulations to all the children whose poems were selected for the 2013 anthology. I know that six children from Goose Green Primary School had poems selected for the anthology and I am sure that other children from other schools in East Dulwich have had their poems selected as well. The children all get to recite their poems in front of Michael Rosen who will also be helping them at the practice session just before the evening launch. As a mum of one of the young poets, I'm very proud of course but I'm also so pleased that all children at our state schools are encouraged to take part in creative endeavours like this. There was a thread about London schools vs out of London schools and I think the opportunities that children in London schools have like this really make a difference.

What a great exhibition! It's open till 6pm so if anyone wants to drop in, please do - amazing art created by the children!