Last 3 Months

Academic Society
Learning without frontiers

Celebration Day
Speeches and Prize Giving

Spanish Students go green
Spanish Newspaper

Summer Concert
A rich and varied programme performed by talented musicians

Jazz in the Park
The Swing Band at Stanley Park

Evening of Spoken English
Year 7 & 8 pupils display their talent

It all adds up
UK Maths Challenge Success

Veterans Day
Cadets help at parade

Design Centre Day
Local primary school children and teachers enjoy a day in the Design Centre

Geographers visit Manchester
A taste of things to come?

Parents' and Friends' Summer Ball
Parents and friends enjoy Motown memories

Queen presents new Colours
CO and senior cadets view ceremony

Rain, rain .... and more rain!
7O brave the elements at Almond Lodge

Costa Book Awards
The chance to be a Young Judge!

OA Golf Day
It's a Walker win

Prefects' team building
Trust is the order of the day

Aimee reads a Rainbow
The first student ever to complete the Rainbow Reading Scheme

South Shore Community Fun Day
The best family day out this summer

The Italian Job
Classics trip opens young eyes

Tea Time Concert
Featuring musicians from the Lower School

Armstrong Angels at Arnold
Jonas Armstrong fans visit his old school

Results add up
Maths Challenge successes

Fifth Festival is Felixstowe
Be my Baby takes break before Edinburgh

Wall to wall work
Visit adds to work done this term

Sixth Form Leavers' Celebration Evening
Prizes, speeches, tears and laughter

England call up for OA
Oliver Brennand to tour USA and Canada

Girls Choir at Blackpool Pleasure Beach
Sing out

Sixth Form Leavers' Barbecue
A happy gathering of students and their parents

Principal’s Debate
Positive discrimination?

Bronze beginners
First expedition goes well

Beaverbrook's 10K Fun Run
Arnold takes to the seafront again

Be My Baby
Production proves successful

The Prefects' Dinner
Top business boss gives timely advice

OA Talks to Telegraph
Richard Halsall is charged with sorting out England's fielding woes

Remploy Citizenship Awards
Pupils put others first again

Drama Dinner
A celebration of Arnold drama at the Clifton Arms Hotel

Be My Baby

The recent sojourn of In yer space in the newly extended and refurbished Studio at the Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, with a three night run of Amanda Whittington's BE MY BABY was brought to a successful conclusion with capacity audiences enjoying the bitter-sweet story of Mary Adams and her time at St. Saviours, a home for unmarried mothers whose babies are automatically given up for adoption.

The poignancy of the play is set against the dynamic 60's music of the Ronnettes and the Shangri-las and gave the cast of six the challenges of re-staging the piece in a smaller, more intimate venue having already toured the production to much larger theatres. But, as always, the company rose to the demands required of them and produced three excellent performances.

BE MY BABY follows on from previous sell-out productions there: A NIGHT IN NOVEMBER, THE WOMAN WHO COOKED HER HUSBAND, HANNAH and HANNA and last year's SATIN ‘N' STEEL - another Whittingham play. It is always a delight to play at the Theatre by the Lake and we look forward to returning there next year. We have gathered quite a following.

Posted by: C Snell
Date: Thursday 8/05/2008