Daisy pulls it off
There were high jinks at The Queen’s School when the school’s senior drama club performed “Daisy Pulls It Off’ by Denise Deegan.
The tongue-in-cheek pastiche of girls’ boarding school stories contained all the characters you would expect from an Angela Brazil or Enid Blyton story – lots of thoroughly decent chaps and a few absolute rotters.
Plucky scholarship girl Daisy battles to fit in among the pupils of Grangewood School, scorned by the snobs, but respected by others for her sporting and academic talents. Along the way she hears of the school’s financial difficulties and, along with her only chum Trixie Martin, Daisy vows to seek the treasure hidden somewhere within the grounds of the school. However she has a competitor in this, Mr Scoblowski, the enigmatic Russian music teacher. Of course, all ends happily as Daisy saves the school, scores the winning goal – oh and also finds her long-lost father along the way!
Sparkling performances from the cast made for a lively and very entertaining evening and with the audience treated to refreshments of ginger beer and sticky buns, a thoroughly topping time was had by all.
“The show was a huge success” said Sara Roberts who played Daisy.
“It was great fun,” said Nicola Wilding who played Mr Scoblowski, “I hope I made Russia proud!”
The girls certainly pulled it off!
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Press Contact: Mrs Jane Taylor, The Queen’s School, City Walls Road, Chester, CH1 2NN Tel: 01244 312078 Fax: 01244 321507 Email: jtaylor@queens.cheshire.sch.uk
Notes:
The Queen’s School, Chester, Cheshire is one of the country’s leading independent schools offering the highest standard of education for girls from ages 4 – 18.
Since its foundation, The Queen’s School has always been a highly successful academic school. In the latest Government league tables published in January 2007, Queen’s was again ranked as the top school in Cheshire based on both GCSE and A/AS level results.
Academic success is only one aspect of life at Queen’s. The Queen’s School and its staff encourage all girls to participate in a wide range of extra-curricular activities; these include drama clubs, plays and musicals, cabaret evenings, choirs and orchestras, a variety of sports such as tennis, lacrosse, football, athletics and gymnastics as well as a science club, an equine club and the Friday club which involves girls helping in the community. There is also the chance to travel with the school on adventure holidays, foreign treks, scientific research expeditions, French and German exchanges and skiing trips.
Established by a group of prominent Chester citizens in 1878 as the Chester School for Girls, the school was renamed four years later by command of Queen Victoria and is proud to remain the only school in the country to have been granted the name The Queen’s School by royal decree. The school has a number of bursaries available to students. Mrs Catherine Buckley is the present headmistress of The Queen’s School. Mrs Felicity Taylor is head of the Lower School on Liverpool Road.
Past pupils include Beth Tweddle, Olympic Gymnast, Sarah Kelly founder of the UK’s Neuromuscular Centre for muscular dystrophy and Vivienne Faull, the first woman to become Dean of an English Cathedral.
More information available from www.queens.cheshire.sch.uk
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