Wicor records its latest CD

What a day! Yesterday we had a full day of recording. Our sound engineer was setting up microphones around us as we rehearsed at 9.15.am. By 10.30am, we had successfully recorded nine tracks involving all the school. I don't think he could quite believe what we had achieved in such a short time!

Whole school cuts a track or two...

At lunchtime, the school Staff recorded a track - a "Wicorized" version of Madness' Baggy Trousers. It's worth buying the CD just to hear the three staff solos! Just a shame that we couldn't record them dancing.

Vox Rox take a turn

Soloists too

During the afternoon it was time for VoxRox to record. Many of the the older children were still very tired after Rock Challenge the day before. Like true professionals, they made that extra effort, worked through their tiredness and recorded four tracks. It's all in the hands of the sound engineer now. CD's can be pre-ordered at the Office. If you wish to hear the children singing you can always visit the  Wicor You Tube site

Job done

Portchester Gala 18th June 2016

On Saturday, about 100 of us from Wicor School took part in Portchester Gala. Mann Made Drives let us use their lorry, and one of their lovely drivers, Giles Wright, drove it for us. Bron Kirk worked very hard before, during and after the Gala organizing the float and costumes.

Our float looked amazing: featuring Hogwarts, mythical creatures, portraits of deceased cast members, school house badges, owls, flying car and steam train. Some of the costumes were so effective you really couldn’t identify the person underneath. There was a lovely community feel to the event and it was delightful to see Wicor once again at the heart of our community.

Those of us in the procession made full use of our magic wands, casting spells on the Portchester residents lining the streets, making sure to pick on as many  ex Wicor pupils as possible.

For the third consecutive year, we won 1^st prize for our float.

The lorry decked and ready to go

The cast assemble...

Music concert June 2016

As always, our children excelled at last night’s music concert, when they performed to a packed house. Violins, keyboards, flutes, fifes and clarinets – everyone had their own performance moment.

 It was so lovely to see children who last year had only been able to play one note, now playing complete tunes. One very special moment was when Mr Marks, Caitlin’s dad, played alongside his daughter. Oliver Cheng, a former pupil now in Year 9 at Cams, made the children’s jaws drop, when he played a very quick passage on his violin.

VoxRox sang with sensitivity and passion. Their introductions were confident, the solos were tuneful, and the overall sound brought a tear to many an eye.  They all made Mrs Knight a very proud music teacher!

And what's more all the songs will be available on the school's next CD about to be recorded shortly.  You can hear  Wicor Voices on our You Tube channel.

Out of this world

This term we have taken part in the RHS 'Rocket Science' growing project; more information can be found by following this link Rocket Science Project .


We predicted that before we had even sown our rocket seeds that the red packet was the one that had travelled to space and back. The seeds made us very curious as to what would happen as they had travelled to space. One thought we had was that the seeds that had been to space would grow at a different angle to those that had not.


When we were planting our seeds the seeds from the blue packet appeared to be larger than the seeds in the red packet. As the seeds started to grow two of us were checking on the seeds and watering them daily, we had to check when they had germinated and when the first true leaves appeared.


The seeds germinated really quickly and the seeds from the red packet appeared to have grown faster than the seeds from the blue packet as we measured them on certain days that we were told. It was really hard to keep the plants well watered, they dried out really quickly.


Our funniest moment has been keeping the seeds watered by using some of trays, Oakley's tray has gone missing and we can't find it!

Making holes in modules to sow the seeds

Filling modules with compost

 Our rocket science experiment in action.

By Keira and Oakley 4W