Mary Reid

How do you get 1000 very young children all singing in a concert? The logistics of transport and supervision on the day, let alone co-ordinating the rehearsals in 21 schools, are pretty complex.

Part of the solution is to create four concerts, over two days, dividing the schools up between them.  The result was the Infant Music Festival today and tomorrow at the Kings Centre.

All the children from the schools involved took part and all had learned a dozen new songs from around the world, in several different languages. Halfway through, the parents taught the children 'Thank you for the music' in honour of the match against Sweden this evening. 'It's a small world' was another very appropriate choice.

Congratulations to Nicholas Smith and Hannah Kirk who directed proceedings. What an achievement!