PENNAR Community School Choir has visited Disneyland, Paris to sing on stage for the second time.
The group of 47 pupils and staff left the school on Thursday evening, March 2, bound for Paris, to entertain and enthral the crowds on March 4.
Back in 2015, some £6,500 was raised to take 26 members of the 32-strong school choir to Disneyland Paris for a cultural event which took place just after St David’s Day, with a video performance of the choir later shown at the school.
Speaking before the trip, Pennar School Headmaster Damon McGarvie said: “We intended to do it once as an experience, but because we won the Pembrokeshire male voice choir last year we had parents asking if we could take them again.”
The school and pupils have been raising funds for the trip, with events including sponsored bag packing and carol singing in the run-up to Christmas, with a third of the costs being met by the school itself.
In order to take part in the festival, members of the choir had to undergo an audition, which Mr McGarvie said led to “very good feedback”.
He stressed at the time: “Everything we raise goes back to the trip, each choir member will get a sweatshirt, everything above that goes back to the children as spending money or covering the cost of the trip.”
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