TORQUAY GIRLS GRAMMAR SCHOOL
PARENT TEACHER ASSOCIATION
Contact via the School or via Kate Howitt, Chairman, on 07716 011795
Newsletter
May 2010
TGGS ‘S GOT TALENT
After 2 days of auditions, the judges managed to narrow down the competition to 15 acts
to perform at the Grand Final held on the evening of Wednesday 31st March. With talent
ranging from dance troupes, acting, belly dancing and singing, the finalists battled it out
with each other to see who would win the coveted title of ‘TGGS Has Got Talent’.
With a stage show reminiscent of the best of the televised talent contests, Head Girl
Lottie Chapman with Alice James and Emma Pickering, compered the evening, ensuring
the transitions between acts and the judging panel went smoothly.
The judging panel did some acting of their own, with Mr Walker playing a starring role as
a certain Mr Cowell, even attracting boos from the audiences as he ensured the acts
were kept on their toes. Mrs Heathcote,
Miss Davis and Mr Unwin, kept the comments more constructive and made sure the
scoring was up to scratch.
With the lead changing often as each act upped the ante, the final performer, Florence
Dickinson, stepped into the spotlight with a heart pounding rendition of ‘Preacher Man’,
to walk away with the £25 top prize and trophy.
The Year 7 dance group, comprising, Charlotte Acheson, Chloe Binmore, Emily La
Nauze, Gemma Li, Megan Shaw, Amber Bassett and Mae-Sing Lim-Cooke, claimed the
second prize of £15 and trophy with their energetic routine to Cascada’s ‘Evacuate The
Dancefloor’, whilst treating the audience to sweets thrown from the stage and an
extremely becoming green wig!
Jaime Behan took the ‘Sparkle’ prize of £10 and trophy for her bellydancing routine to
round out the winners list.
Many, many thanks have to go out to all the girls who took part in the auditions, all those
who helped to set up and clear away afterwards, the many parents from the PTA and all
the staff involved. The PTA would like to thank Mrs Horton and Mrs Payne for all their
help in organising and running the event, and Nina Clarkson for the audio support. They
would also like to thank the sponsors of the prizes for the evening, Showertech
Southwest, A Generous Parent (keeping his light under a bushel, but we can’t thank him
enough), and Arrowmek Consultants.
Well done everyone for a fantastic event, raising £406 to go back to the school and
most of all...
TGGS REALLY DOES HAVE TALENT.
Mufti Day
Mufti Day was held on Friday
May and was a huge success! Reports that
everyone came to school in non- school uniform for the day to raise funds for the
whole school, via the PTA. Total amount raised to be confirmed. Many thanks to
all who helped organize the event and to the girls for taking part.
14th
Next PTA EVENT
We hope the next PTA event of a Car Boot Sale will be an even greater success
than the Talent Show! To be held in the Paddock, or along the car parking spaces
at the side of the school if wet weather on Saturday 19th June 2010. Gates open to
Sellers at 10am, and from 11am until 2pm for buyers. Please come along and
support this exciting new venture. More details to follow.
Future PTA Events
Go Grab Your Diary and make a note of these events:
Pamper Evening Thursday 11th November 2010.
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 PTA Plea
 The PTA always welcomes new parents into the team, and any offers of
help, however small they may seem, are gratefully received. We are a friendly
bunch so come and have a chat to any of us at the various events or contact
our Chair, Kate Howitt on 07716 011795 or via the school office.