Russley School Performing Arts

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25/06/2025

We are thrilled to share the video below of our performance last night 🤩

Thanks so much to all of you who came along to support us, for those that couldn’t make it enjoy a taste here of our beautiful TPK Russley School Choir 😍🎶

Special thanks to all our fabulous musicians;
pianist Sue Kim, brass players Bruce Muschamp and Haydn Randall, percussionist Olivia Paul, bassist Isaac Paul, and Logan, Theo, Sam and Nora of the Russley Brass Band 🎺🎺🎸🎹🥁

Congratulations again to our fabulous choir, you should be extremely proud of yourselves ✨⭐️

25/06/2025

Russley you were AMAZING! 🤩🤩
Congratulations to our choir on a brilliant performance tonight. You absolutely smashed it and we are all so proud of you! You had a blast up there and brought beautiful singing and high energy to the stage, and absolutely delivered! 🎶😍
A massive thank you also to all our amazing musicians who accompanied us tonight and gave us another level of awesome.
What a night. Excitement was so high at halftime we barely managed to stand still for our traditional selfie! Video to follow tomorrow, watch this space.

Well done team! 🤩🎶🎵

24/06/2025

We are in situ ready for our final rehearsal for the North West Festival here at the Aurora Centre this morning ✨🌟
The choir are super excited and ready to knock your socks off this evening with their performance 🎶🎶
All the best for tonight, beautiful Russley singers!

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13/06/2025

Last night was huge for Russley as we had an amazing group take to the stage in Showquest Ōtautahi. Our Te Kōhure tamariki performed an incredible original piece, based around the the three pillars of E Tū Tāngata: You Have Value, We Succeed Together, and Others Matter.

The performance wowed the crowd and the judges and we are so proud to say Russley came away with 1st Place in Canterbury 🤩🏆

The team were also recognised for:
Best Story
Excellence in Culture
Recognition in Music

The performance is now entered in the Nationals competition and we wish them all the very best of luck.

A huge thank you to Mrs Williams and the whole Te Kōhure staff who have put many hours in to make this happen. Also to Ms Simmonds and Mātua Steve who did some amazing work with the poi and rakau sections.

An absolute triumph! Congratulations Team Russley you guys knocked it out of the park 🤩

04/06/2025

The TPK Russley Junior Choir is a group of keen singers from Years 3 + 4. They have been working super hard on preparing a performance for the whole school and were so excited to share two numbers at assembly today. They sang ‘Make Your Own Kind of Music’ by Paloma Faith and ‘Just Sing’ from Trolls: World Tour.
What a fun show they put on! It was awesome to see their energy and enthusiasm on display, especially as they rose to the challenge of doing it without microphones after technical difficulties!
Enjoy this video of their second song - well done team you were great!

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21/05/2025

Over the last couple of months, 14 of our lovely Russley singers have been working hard preparing to audition for the representative choirs in the Christchurch Music Festival later this year. They have put in lots of time and effort and are sounding just beautiful!

Tomorrow is the day, and we wish them all the very best of luck for their auditions. Some of them got together this afternoon for a final run through, so you can enjoy their angelic sound 🤩🎶

All the best to all of you!

08/05/2025

This morning we had a real treat and all got to watch a fantastic musical performance!
Students from Burnside High School brought their Music Roadshow to us and put on a fabulous concert, which went from funk, to classical, to a brass quintet, to jazz. The performers were outstanding and it was an amazing opportunity for us to see such a range of talent and inspire our own young musicians.
If you are a senior and loved the sound of the specialist music programme you can find out more on the Burnside website ☺️ burnside.school.nz

01/05/2025

Coming up in a couple of weeks… the National Youth Theatre are putting on the classic favourite Cats at the Isaac Theatre Royal. This production features 150 incredible young performers from around Christchurch, including three of our Russley whanau! Come and support Aoife, Patricia and Alfie and enjoy this fabulous production with the whole family.
Tickets available here
https://hubs.li/Q03jcHDH0

22/04/2025

Looking for a great theatre experience to take the kids to? Check out Ovation Theatre’s production of The Music Man Jr, featuring our very own Logan and his ex-Russley sister Isy in lead roles.
On this Thursday-Sat, what a great way to get your kids to live theatre and support our Russley whanau.

Tickets at the following link https://events.humanitix.com/music-man-jr/tickets

Find out more at Ovation.nz

10/04/2025

We are so sad that this is our last week with our incredible Deputy Principal, Mrs Jane Rush. Mrs Rush has been an integral part of Russley School over the last 10 years and is going to be sorely missed by each and every one of us.
Yesterday we held a final assembly to acknowledge, farewell and celebrate Mrs Rush as she leaves us to go on new adventures.
As a special tribute to her, we had this whole school performance of the beautiful song Pepeha, including a group of fantastic seniors supporting with sign language.
Mrs Rush we wish you all very best, we know you will be amazing in your new role, but know you’ll forever be a part of the Te Parito Kōwhai Russley whanau.

13/03/2025

Today we were fortunate to host the lovely Lisa Allan from Wintergreen Collective, who ran a drama workshop for a small group of children based around her upcoming show The Snow.
Our wonderful young actors had such a great time improvising, making shapes with their bodies, creating stories and even becoming human pop up picture books!
Thank you so much Lisa we all had a blast.
The Snow is on at Little Andromeda April 10-12, see the attached poster for details!

14/12/2024

Finally, yesterday was also a very special assembly for performing arts at Russley, as it was the last day of school for our beloved Mrs Elizabeth Muschamp.

You will have seen her input in almost everything we post here on this page, and it is impossible to list the ways she has taught, supported, influenced and contributed to music and the arts. She is an amazingly talented musician, incredible teacher, and generally fabulous woman who we will miss hugely.

The choir got together secretly over the past couple of weeks to prepare a little something to farewell Elizabeth and thank her for everything she has done over the years.

We will miss you!!

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Our Performing Arts Programme

Russley School has a strong performing arts programme. Each year our students are involved in choirs, orchestras, drama clubs, dance competitions, kapa haka competitions, music lessons and various performances both at school and around the city.

Some of the recent highlights have been:

North West Music Festival at The Aurora Centre

Tūhono Kapa Haka Festival

Location

Christchurch

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Telephone

+6433427783

Website

http://www.russley.school.nz/

Address

75 Cutts Road, Russley
Christchurch
8042