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  Welcome to the latest edition of Purcell’s Weekly Highlights!   Primary School Visit On Tuesday, we welcomed 30 children from Newton Farm Primary School in Harrow to the School for an immersive event. Purcell students performed a 40 minute recital followed by a Q&A session and interactive workshop. The workshop involved the visiting primary…

  Welcome to the latest edition of Purcell’s Weekly Highlights!   Zara Williams In the latter part of last year, Purcell pianist Zara Williams received a full scholarship to attend the International Winter Piano Academy ‘Feuerwerk’ from 29th December 2019 to 6th January 2020. The academy is an annual ‘by invitation’ event and Zara was…

At the beginning of the academic year, the Maths department launched a new initiative – the Purcell Maths Photography Competition – which challenged entrants to capture images of maths in everyday life. The competition was open to all Purcell students, and ran throughout the first half of the autumn term. Mrs Stone, Head of Mathematics,…

Two Purcell oboists, Yr Obo Teithio have raised enough funds to buy two Junior Howarth oboes for promising young musicians through a fantastic project.  Their first recipient is a young oboist in Scotland called Sophia, read more here: https://ow.ly/SCcoQ Yr Obo Teithio were presented with The Purcell School John Wills Shield for Outreach at the end of the…

Today we welcomed Brightfutures to lead a seminar with the new sixth form pupils. ​Working both as a team and individually pupils engaged in a wide variety of activities aimed to strengthen the skills they will need throughout their sixth form experience. Covering topics such as the impact of ones mindset on learning and revision techniques pupils learnt…

​The Purcell School has been privileged today to host a group of visitors from Tokyo. The delegation was led by Professor Kazuki Sawa, a distinguished violinist, and Principal of the Tokyo University of the Arts. The university has strong links with the Royal Academy of Music here in London and The Purcell School is keen…

We were very proud of Purcell pupil and National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain Leader, Millie Ashton, for accepting an award and performing on behalf of the NYO at the Royal Philharmonic Society Awards this week! Millie’s place at Purcell is supported by a Government Music and Dance Scheme Scholarship. She studies violin with Alda Dizdari and…

We began the Summer Term with three performances of Stravinsky’s Soldier’s Tale.  This was the culmination of a fantastic eight-month collaborative project with the Young People’s Puppet Theatre (YPPT).   Our Year 7 students designed, built and operated the marionettes, and they also stage-managed the performances, employing amazing team-work skills!  GCSE Art students designed and painted the sets, GCSE and…

The long-awaited refurbishment of the ground floor corridor in the main school building started last week. Workmen have already stripped out the false ceiling, radiators, lights, boxes and anything else they could find, preparatory to a complete redecoration with new lighting, ceiling and flooring. We will be living on a building site for the next…

Our string players were treated to a very special masterclass yesterday afternoon, given by world-renowned cellist, Robert Cohen.  Three of our cellists had the opportunity to play to Robert, in what was an inspiring workshop.  Sixth-former, Noah Max, commented “Robert Cohen’s approach to the (Bach) Suites was a revelation!  I thoroughly enjoyed exploring the challenges…