South Hill Primary School

Young Voices offers children the amazing opportunity of singing with the worlds’ largest children’s choir. The whole experience is a journey and discovery, culminating in the most extraordinary performance opportunity there could possibly be.

South Hill Choir have regularly attended Young Voices and most recently on 23rd January 2026.

This year the music included a Disco Medley, a Wicked Medley, A Medley of Sea Shanties as well as anthems and pop songs from a huge variety of genres. These offer the children opportunities to learn about other times and cultures, as well as musical styles. We became backing singers to soloists Ruti and Olly and loved singing ‘Shackles’ with Aneesa Folds. The song ‘Power in Me’ has become a school favourite as it links so well to our Resilience theme in the South Hill Way.

 

The choir members worked extremely hard to learn all the lyrics and attended many extra rehearsals. All the hard work paid off with such an exceptional day on Friday 23rd January. The day was long and exhausting, but the children were utterly amazing. Their enthusiasm and energy bubbled over all day. Most of the songs had actions and dance moves so we were kept moving in the rehearsal as well as being introduced to the various artists who would be performing with us in the evening. As the lights went down for the concert to begin at 7pm the atmosphere was electric. Parents had arrived in the O2 and we could wave to them from a distance!

The Urban Striders, Olly, Ruti and Aneesa were sensational.

 

Such an incredible evening to inspire and remember!

Here are some of the choir members’ comments:

‘Breathtaking’

‘Extraordinary’

‘Unforgettable’

‘It was just the best day’

‘I loved the Urban Strides Dancers!’

My favourite Medley was Wicked’

‘I loved the lights- I felt like a star!’

‘It was soo amazing’

Urban Strides are awesome!

‘Awesome’