Earth Hour 2015

At Wicor we are taking part in a campaign called Earth Hour. Earth Hour is a WWF campaign where  you turn off your lights to save energy, and to help stop climate change for future animals  and future generations.



This is going to be held nationally  from  8:30 to 9:30 on Saturday the 28th of March .  There are going to be in total 169 countries taking part in this global campaign.

We are planning to do something a bit extra for this campaign...

Our very own Chocobin

Did you know that by the Year 2020 there might not be any chocolate for anyone to eat?  It's because people are eating more and more chocolate all over the world, including us in Britain.  You might think people can just grow more - they can't.  Land for growing cocoa beans is becoming harder to find and climate change is making it harder to grow cocoa beans.

At Wicor we want to draw attention to the fact that we cannot just keep using our resources more and more, like chocolate, without any impact.  We have to learn to be less greedy and demanding.

So let me introduce our Chocobin.

Our Chocobin is busy collecting all the chocolate wrappers and packets we use over the next few before persuade everyone to STOP - eating chocolate for two weeks.  We hope Chocobin will show us just how much chocolate is being saved and help people to realise two things.  First, just how much chocolate we are eating everyday and second, that we can do with less.

BBC's Ten Pieces

Mrs Knight, Mrs Coles and fifteen VoxRoxers had an inspirational afternoon at Winchester College on Thursday, singing with the BBC singers and their conductor who had come up from London with the purpose of working with 200 young singers on the chorus of Handel’s Zadok the Priest. (One of the pieces in the BBC’s Ten Pieces film BBC's Ten Pieces )
      
The children were amazed at the power in the voices of the BBC singers and even a little amazed at what they did themselves. The conductor was very amusing but he also really stretched us. When done properly, singing can be physically quite hard work, as well as being enjoyable. So much so that Caitlin and Lyla-Rose fell asleep on the journey home! 
      “Awesome!...Really fun..The music was bouncing off the walls,” were some of the comments made by the children afterwards. Favourite moments were the funny sounds the singers made when they were showing us how Basses, Tenors, Altos and Sopranos sing. The comment I liked best was Grace’s, “I never knew I could make a sound like that”. This was what the workshop was about, stretching our abilities and making us aim higher.
  We’re now on the edge of our seats waiting to hear if the BBC will be inviting us to sing the piece at the Royal Albert Hall in July during their Ten Pieces Prom. Watch this space! 

Ruth Knight, Teacher