The 2025 Amnesty Variety Evening was a roaring success. Co-host and organiser of the evening, Rosie Pank, reports on the event; Last week, I had the pleasure of running this year’s Amnesty Variety Evening, allowing me to organise many talented performers in support of different refugee support groups and charities that we get to work with throughout the year. Our main charities we have been raising money for this year are English Plus, which is run across Norwich to help people learn English, allowing them to have opportunities such as careers and educations. We also support Nancy Oldfield Trust and have an ongoing bicycle restoration project that fixes old bikes and delivers them to refugee hotels around Norwich, providing them with a small bit of freedom each day. My favourite part about this evening was meeting different people who come to support the show, from many different areas of life and also watching our fantastic school community come together in such an enthusiastic ways to help support others. At this year’s variety evening, there were a plethora of different talents on display from the staff band to a dance troupe of pupils from Norwich school, Jane Austen and the City of Norwich School. After working with the dance troupe for the last few weeks, it was extremely rewarding to watch the mix of pupils across age groups and schools, getting on so well and creating friendships as they work together, and watching them come to life on stage as a group for the final time. After watching the show each year, it was a pleasure to be able to return this year as a compere along with Nicholas Conway, introducing the performers, and sharing some information about the importance of each charity we support and the wider amnesty community. It was a great success this year, with the audience being incredibly generous helping us raise lots of money for our charities, and I hope next year’s show is just as successful, and that we get to be involved again! Thank you to Mia Scarborough, L6 from the Close Creatives Collective , who took a selection of the images below.

This term we saw our first ever in house pupil led choreography competition. The competition was a massive triumph with a range of ensemble and solo independent choreography across Junior, Inters and Senior year groups. It has been a great opportunity for pupils to collaborate and share their choreographic flare. A real testament not only to their performance skills, but their creative talents too. Lets hear from our winners! Juniors - Poppy Zhang (U4) “I chose the song Footloose because I love musicals, and I thought that I could create a fun dance that could connect with the music. When I stepped onto the stage it felt amazing but also scary. However, when the music started, all my nerves went away. When I won, I was absolutely shocked with joy, bursting inside of me. I was so grateful and happy knowing that all my hard work paid off.” Inters - Clara Flewin (L5) and Tilda Rochester (L5) Clare – “We wanted our dance to be non-traditional and theatrical so we came up with a character-driven piece inspired by a horror film - the Grady Twins from The Shining. Luckily we are almost exactly the same size and height so with the mood lighting we could pass for twins!! Miss How helped us choose some creepy music and we convinced her to let us use an audio clip from the film. We both love gymnastics so we added some walkovers and other moves to look like contortion. Adding fake blood to our consumes was great fun! We were both really excited to win.” Tilda – “Performing on the stage for the first time ever at Norwich school was overwhelming but also really exciting and a really amazing opportunity. We chose this music because it went with the characters’ personalities. The rehearsal progress was super amazing dancing in the dance studio for the first time and practising with my partner made it so fun and the style we chose was creepy because of the film we picked. Winning was such a surprising moment and it felt amazing and I am so thankful to my partner for getting through this with me.” Seniors - Leah Feetham (U6) and Aggie Johnson (U5) “Our piece was entitled To My Sister set to the song To My Siblings written from the perspective of the artist Tessa Blasko to her siblings reflecting on memories they shared growing up. As two technical dancers who really enjoy embracing our creativity through choreography. We elected to make a contemporary lyrics dance that portrayed the relationship of an older sister who paved the way for her younger sister growing up just to fall ill and become dependent on the girl she helped raise. It was a beautiful piece we were both so proud of and equally excited to perform it to an audience. Silently praying that everyone would pick up on subtleties of the costumes and hair being representative of the difference in the ages and maturity of our characters and their time of weaknesses and dependency conveyed through proxemics to the ground; things that we'd thought about a lot and which we hoped the audience would appreciate.”