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Katherine Jenkins surprises local school with winning news

Welsh singing sensation Katherine Jenkins surprised Cardiff-based project, Armistice Cantata, with some special news.

The mezzo soprano visited pupils at Thornhill Primary School in Cardiff to deliver news that they had won the National Lottery Education Award. The school piloted Armistice Cantata, an intergenerational education project marking 100 years since the end of the Great War.

Supported by The National Lottery, Armistice Cantata is part of a wider project by the Golden Oldies that encourages primary schools to open their doors to older people. As part of the programme, pensioners from the Golden Oldies (“Goldies” Cymru) – which helps older people get involved in music – teamed up with youngsters from Thornhill Primary school in Cardiff to write a musical to commemorate the end of World War One. The children appear on stage together in a 30-minute production, named Armistice Cantata.

The musical – which includes popular songs from World War One – is now being rolled out to a number of schools across England and Wales with more than 7,000 children and 800 older people from the Goldies charity are taking part.

Watch the video to see the moment Katherine Jenkins stopped by to surprise the group.

23rd October 2018

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