House Singing

24 October 2016

Sunday 15 October saw the Chapel open its doors to the School’s annual House Singing Competition. The theme of this year’s competition was ‘Music from the Movies’ and we were treated to a selection of highly original and skilfully executed interpretations of classic songs from the big screen.

A huge amount of work had been put into the entries by Stoics and the adjudicator, hot off the heels from his own school’s competition at Shrewsbury, must have had a difficult job to find a clear winner. In the end it was Chandos who took both boys’ House prizes, with Hugo Cliff (Upper Sixth, Chandos) leading a rousing rendition of the Jason Mraz hit ‘I Won’t Give Up’. The House also excelled with their unison performance of ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ by Deep Blue Something.

Nugent took both trophies for the girls’ Houses, in no small part down to Mali Aitchison’s (Lower Sixth, Nugent) stunning musical arrangements. Their unison song featured a mash-up of songs from ‘Rocky III’, ‘8 Mile’, ‘Pretty Woman’, The Breakfast Club’ and ‘Coyote Ugly’ and their part-song was Miley Cyrus’ ‘The Climb’. Nugent also took the overall prize. Entertainment was provided by Mali and Henry Gauvain (Lower Sixth, Temple) along with Charles Rivington (Lower Sixth, Bruce) on guitar.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank my colleagues Ben Andrew and Dave Richmond for their fantastic work in the band. House Singing will see some changes next year; nothing has been finalised but there is likely to be more than one adjudicator and several other tweaks that will make the event an even more positive experience that better reflects the huge amount of hard work that everybody puts in.

House Singing photos can be seen here.

Miles Nottage, Head of Rock, Pop and Jazz