Blog Author: Mr Strachan

PCA's Family Team asked the Band to perform for parents and carers at their coffee morning to celebrate "International Women's Day". Lots of people joined in the many activities set up for them. Well done to the Family Team for a special morning!

The Band was invited to perform for parents, carers, pupils and staff at the fundraiser for Brian House hospice held today. Elmer the Elephant  encouraged people to spend their money for a good cause and £920 was raised altogether - well done, PCA!

The Band performed at the "Be Who You Want To Be" initiative in front of the very large crowd packed into the Library. A BBC news team came to film the event and the Band appeared on the Look North programme which was very exciting for us. Well done, the Band!

The musicians with a connection to PCA performed superbly at the Schools Alive concert and were well rewarded with a standing ovation. Our hours of practice on Tuesday evenings throughout the previous year certainly paid off for us - and the audience!

This picture shows the Band sitting quietly and waiting for the curtain to go up before we started the whole event. There was a huge audience to perform to and we received rapturous applause after we played each of our tunes.  Well done, the Band! 

PCA band's last concert of the year took place this morning. The whole school was present and as usual we were asked to entertain with Carols and Christmas tunes.  Georgia, Adam and Mr Miller played with us and were superb! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone.

Our last off-site performance was for the pupils and staff at Woodlands School who sang along to our Carols and Christmas tunes with gusto and obviously loved doing so. It's a pity we can't have Christmas more often - maybe we should ask Santa for that as a gift!

The Band was joined by Anchorsholme Primary School's choir to entertain the church congregation with Christmas tunes and carols. It was a lovely evening and was rounded off by everyone being given a selection box by the organisers - unfortunately Santa was stuck in a traffic jam!

A small number of Band members plus Mr Holt supported the fantastic Nativity play performed by pupils from KS1.  The Nativity was wonderful and it was our pleasure to play Christmas Carols and tunes to entertain the audience alongside them!

The Band had a great turnout of older pupils for our trip today and we sounded [if it's possible!] better than ever. There is always a very welcoming atmosphere at Sam's Place and today was no different. There was a big crowd singing along so......... thank you! 

The Band performed Christmas carols and tunes to all the pupils and staff from Holy Family school.  We had our dinner at the school and then performed in the church. Holy Family choir sang some carols beautifully and we all had a lovely afternoon.

Many thanks to Jason and his staff at Lateo for inviting us into their premises to perform for the Lights Switch-on. It was cold, windy and wet outside so in the best Christmas tradition they gave us shelter, food [a lovely hamburger] and warmth. Have a lovely Christmas!