Posted 09 January 2008

Tickets Now On Sale - Book Now!
Tickets For Sing-A-Long Concerts In South Africa - 7pm 31 Jan, 1 Feb And 2 Feb 2008

The THRASS Family SING-A-LONG Resources, which will comprise a 96-page hard-back book, an interactive book, an audio CD and a colouring book, will use 44 songs that parents and others can sing with children to explain the
44 sounds and 120 main spelling choices of English. And the Resources will have a truly universal appeal, as they have been developed by Alan Davies with the help of experts from around the world: a music specialist in South Africa, an artist in Australia, and a computer programmer and Alan's wife, an experienced teacher and teacher-trainer, in the UK.

Tickets for the first three SING-A-LONG school concerts, to be held at Holy Rosary School, Horwood Street, Edenvale, are now available from Layton Brown, Sales Director, Pretoria Wholesale Stationers (PWS), Tel: 012 523 1000 Email: lbrown@pws.co.za.

Tickets are on a first come first served basis. The concerts are open to all - that is, teachers, parents, grandparents and children from other schools are most welcome (especially if children from your school are in the cast!). 400 tickets are available for each of the three nights minus the VIPs that will be attending on each of the nights (that is, a total of 1,200 tickets - which are likely to be in high demand! So book as soon as you can).

Principals and Senior Staff from THRASS Schools in Gauteng

Principals and senior staff from THRASS schools are asked if they would be kind enough to coordinate the number of tickets required by their teachers and parents - and to ring Layton Brown at PWS (as soon as is possible) with a provisional request/indication of the likely number of tickets required.
Tel: 012 523 1000.

Adults R60 and Children R40 (12 years and under) - proceeds to the South African children's cancer charity CHOC. Telephone Layton Brown: 012 523 1000

SING-A-LONG Sponsors for South Africa: TalkTogether Project, Absa (Barclays), and Pritt.

SING-A-LONG CONCERTS IN THE UK AND CARIBBEAN In March and April, further school concerts will be held in England (Oxley Park Primary School, Milton Keynes; Starbeck Primary School, Harrogate, North Yorkshire), Wales (Windsor Clive Primary School, Ely, Cardiff) and also Bridgetown, Barbados (venue to be decided). Other dates and venues in the UK and other countries will follow.

We are delighted to announce that Cathy Higgins, Oxley Park Primary and Vicky Meadows, Windsor Clive Primary, the headteachers of our THRASS centres of excellence in England and Wales, respectively, will be attending the 'World Premiere' SING-A-LONG Concert on 31 January in Johannesburg (as part of the two day THRASS Absa TalkTogether Conference, University of the Witwatersrand, 31 Jan - 1 Feb).