See the results and photos from our annual House Singing competition, which took place in the McGlashan Chapel last Friday!
It was great to see so many smiling faces and positive attitudes from the students, who stepped up their singing game to another level at the competition last Friday.
After four weeks of icy Wednesday morning practices, the preparation had clearly paid off as Balmac, Burns, Gilray and Ross all gave some of their strongest performances to date, resulting in a close competition and a difficult decision for the judges on the day!
We were thrilled to have both Bridget Telfer-Milne (Teaching Fellow at the University of Otago) and Sam Leaper (JMC Alumni and Professional Musician) returning for consecutive years to judge, with our new choral director Teddy Finney-Waters doing the honours.
The points for the mass singing item showed the houses in close competition:
House | Song | Points (Aggregate) |
|---|---|---|
Balmac | Adele - Set Fire to the Rain | 68.5 |
Burns | Bastille - Pompeii | 71 |
Gilray | Of Monsters and Men - Little Talks | 60.5 |
Ross | Nomad - Oh My My | 64.5 |
And the band items levelled the playing field even further:
House | Song | Points (Aggregate) |
|---|---|---|
Balmac | Hosier - Too Sweet | 43.5 |
Burns | Vance Joy - Riptide | 48 |
Gilray | Mark Ronson - Uptown Funk | 49.5 |
Ross | Wunderhorse - Girl | 35.5 |
Congratulations to Burns house for taking it out on the day, narrowly followed by Balmac and Gilray, with Ross trailing in 4th (but not very far behind)!
House | Points | Final Result |
|---|---|---|
Burns | 119 | 1st |
Balmac | 112 | 2nd |
Gilray | 110 | 3rd |
Ross | 100 | 4th |
Well done to all the boys for putting on a great show and an exciting competition for us all. This definitely levels out the house points for the year - the students are neck and neck.
It's all down to the School Swimming Sports on 16th September - stay tuned!
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