Welcome back everyone. We hope all students will enjoy this exciting term especially the new recruits.

LAMDA AWARDS
Congratulations to all who took part in L.A.M.D.A. exams this year. All the commitment and dedication of both
students and teachers most certainly paid off. The awards evening was a hugh success and an opportunity for
some of the students to demonstrate their exam pieces. Aisling O’Neill from Faircity presented the awards on
the night. A great evening was had by all in the lovely Trim Castle Hotel.

SUMMER CAMP
Our Musical Theatre summer camps were a hugh success. Lots of fun was had especially when Henry McKeen decided to pop by to interview the kids. They all had a giggle when they heard themselves when on Newstalk 106 Radio Station. At this stage you never know who will pop by the academy to say hello.

MID TERM BREAK
This is our longest term to date. We have a lot of hard work ahead for our show “Annie” in January. The term dates are listed below and there will be no classes held on Wednesday 29th, Thursday 30th or Saturday 1st November due to the mid-term break.

Academy First Class Last Class
Virginia Ramor GFC 3rd Sept 17th Dec
Kells - GAA Centre 4th Sept 18th Dec
Navan - Korean Martial Arts 6th Sept 20th Dec
Ratoath - Ratoath Community Centre 6th Sept 20th Dec


CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR TV STARS
It was a very busy summer for many of the academy members with TV appearances and photo shoots. Congrats and well done to all of you –
· Maebh O’Reilly took part on Eye to Eye on July 4th.

· Jack Furlong, Sean O’Looney and Evan O’Rourke went for the McDonalds Advert and Ciaran Roche, Sean O’Looney, Kevin McGrath, Donal Dunne, Gavin Fennessy and Evan O’Rourke went for the casting of an Easy Singles Advert. It was a great experience & opportunity for all involved.

· Gemma Glynn, Aine Brennan & Cian Ryan took part on RTE’s programme The Buzz in July.

· Rochelle O’Reilly from our Navan Academy was successful in a recent casting for Pat The Baker Advert. This advert can be seen on TV3 at present.

· Aine Brennan, Ciaran Roche & Jessica Heary took part in Watch Your Language on 16th July. They were up against a team from Sligo. They had great support on the day as students from Navan and Kells went along to cheer them on. Well done guys!!!

· Members from our Ratoath Academy, Oisin Flynn nd Rebecca Scott took part on The Buzz 24th July and Tara Baitson who took part on ICE.

· Congrats to Chelsea O’Toole from Ratoath who is the new face for Heatons Fashions

· The following students took part in the casting for the movie ‘Wakewood’ – Megan Nolan, Saoirse O’Looney, Aoife O’Reilly, Aisling Brennan and Emily Muldoon. We would like to say well done to Aisling who was back 5 times for auditions but was unsuccessfull

· Well done to Ciaran Roche who took part in a small advert for the Den in July. We look forward to seeing him on TV.









· We sent the following for a Kellogs Casting recently – Aaron Nevin, Cian Ryan, Kevin Cleary and Oisin Flynn.

· Oisin Flynn became a bit of a celebrity over the summer when the camera crew from ICE visited his home. Many of his family members including Ailbhe also took part in the filming.

· Chelsea O’Toole was styling her Dad on 5th September as part of the ICE programme on RTE

It is impossible to keep in touch with everyone over the summer months so if we forgot to mention your name and you were in RTE, please let us know and accept our apologies.


CONTINUED SUCCESS
We would like to wish Grainne O’Reilly our dance teacher in Navan every success in furthering her dance career in Dundee College. Also crossing the seas is Eddie Walker who taught in Navan and Ratoath. Eddie is completing his GCSE’s through performing Arts in Manchester. We wish them both continued success, as I’m sure many will miss them!!!
Best of luck also to Rachel McNamee, Simone Murph

Recent Events & Congratulations
·RTE’s Afternoon Mini Toy Show were delighted with the following two groups of students who went into studio and demonstrated on their given toys. Well done to the following who took part on Monday 3rd December – Luke Patton, Abigail Allen, Sean O’Looney & Alex McCrory and on December 6th we had Conor Dunne, Alexandra O’Brien, Emily Muldoon and Thomas Holohan.

·Chelsea O’Toole had her moment of fame also when she appeared on TV3’s Ireland Am show. Well-done Chelsea.

·Many thanks to the students and their teacher Patricia Ronayne who braved the weather conditions on December 8th to carol sing at Ashbourne Town Centre. They raised €78 towards their trip to London. The Ashbourne Town Centre kindly donated €500 and expressed their appreciation to everyone.


·The Christmas raffle raised €150 so thank you to everyone who purchased tickets. Prizewinners were as follows – 1st prize Rene Curtis (Kells), 2nd prize Evan O’Rourke (Navan) and 3rd prize Rebecca Wade (Virginia).

·We would like to thank both the students and parents who bag packed at Tescos and Dunnes in Ashboure in January to raise money for the forthcoming trip to London. A total of €1850 was collected. Well done to everyone concerned!!

·Well done to the following students who took part in a Leargas Documentary based on the murder of Garda Richard Fallon in 1970 – Conor Tolan (Virginia), Colm Murray (Ratoath), Noah O’Sullivan (Navan), Anna & Patrick Brannigan (Ratoath) and their mother Emma who stepped in at the last minute. The documentary was shown on RTE on 21st January.

·Jessica Beaton went on the “Once a week show” in RTE and had a great time. She won an i-pod, portable dvd player, MTV karaoke machine, 12 cd's, 2 dvds and 2 cinema tickets!

·Congratulations to Jakob Mahase on the recent release of his very own CD. Check out this weeks Meath Post for a review on the young star. Well-done and continued success in the future.

Kells Panto
Hansel and Gretal this years Kells Panto was a fantastic success and well done to everyone involved as all that hard work most certainly paid off. It was a fantastic experience and Sheila would liket thank our two dance captains Simone Murphy (Virginia) and Katie Duffy (Kells). We would like to express our apologies and best wishes to Ciara Menton who performed in the panto but we omitted her from the list on our last newsletter. A special thank you to all the parents whose help was much appreciated in the dressing rooms. Thank you to all concerned.

St. Patrick’s Day Parade
We are delighted to announce that we will once again be taking part in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Dublin on Monday 17th March. The parade is watched by 5.5million people and a great experience in street theatre. We have an allocation of 50 students performing on the day so if you are interested and over 11yrs old please fill in the attached form and return to class asap or alternatively contact us at the office. We will have a dress rehearsal for everyone involved on Saturday 1st March in the Korean Martial Arts Centre Navan from 2-4pm.

Forthcoming Show
The Academy has received the rights from London to do the full musical “Annie” in the Solstice Arts Centre, Navan. This will be our first full musical and will be staged in January 2009. This is a fantastic opportunity for all students in the academy and a wonderful musical for everyone to enjoy and experience.

Dance Diversions Workshop & Performance
Professional dancers from the Welsh contempory dance company “Diversions” are coming to the Korean Martial Arts Centre in Navan on Tuesday 4th March to do a workshop from 7-8:30pmThe workshop will use the four main elements of dance education, which are – warm up & technique, composition, performance and evaluation. Those who attend the workshop will also benefit seeing the dancers they meet perform live on stage at the Solstice Theatre in N

Anyone interested in workin on 16th Nov.
Fashion show needing 18 people male and female from age 5-20 years. Send me a message and I will slot you in. x