Biggleswade Campus Uplifts Milton Ernest Care Home
A choir of some current and former Focus Students from Biggleswade School Campus revisited Milton Ernest Hall Care Home to encourage and uplift the elderly residents. The care home staff and residents enjoyed the music and asked the choir to come back, maybe in the summer.
The students practise together and some of these sessions are held at the school campus, with the doors open for all to attend and enjoy the music.
Most visitors find Milton Ernest Hall fascinating. It is the only country house designed and built by the noted Gothic architect Sir William Butterfield whose “structural polychromy” with variegated brick banding became the fashion of the late Victorian period. The Gothic Revival was in its heyday between 1855 and 1885 and this Grade 1 listed building built in 1865 is a good example of the era.
The students also learnt that Milton Ernest Hall was used as a HQ by the Allied Forces in WW2. They found the small plaque that remembers those who served at this grand yet covert building close to Thurleigh Airfield. RAF Thurleigh hosted American B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft of the 8th Air Force during the war. 171 aircraft failed to return and there is a small museum on the airfield containing a Remembrance Book to all the young men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice.
Some of the student’s ancestors were in the Allied Forces and the conductor’s elderly great grandfather is a former WW2 medic who spent most of the war in uniform. He was on the last boat out of Dunkirk, landed in Normandy D Day+3, survived Arnhem and carried on into Germany, finally caring for the emaciated survivors from Bergen Belsen. The British were the first to enter a death camp and first-hand accounts of mass graves, piles of corpses, and ‘living skeletons’ spread quickly around the world.
Wow! The solos rock! Beautiful singing. Keep it up Biggleswade!
well done!!!!!!!
liked Georgie’s solo….
Could listen to this over and over
again!
Beautiful songs and beautiful singing…top marks to everyone involved!
I reckon a CD would be good for fundraising! Excellent!
wahoooo Gemma & Danielle!!
absolutely awesome, you should do more songs. very enjoyable!
Aweeeesome Georgie!!!
that was sooooo so good….
your amazing!
very good. excellent singing u lot 🙂
Please could we have the lyrics for What God Has Planned
What God Has Planned
When you call on Me, when you come to Me
When you pray to Me I will listen
You will seek Me and you will find Me
When you seek Me with all your heart
I will be found by you (says the Lord)
And I will gather you from all the nations
And I will bring you home
From the ends of the earth I will bring you home
What God has planned for the people who love Him
Is more than eyes have seen or ears have ever heard
What God has planned has never even entered our minds
Rejoice my soul, for what God has planned
I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you, protect you
And to give you a future full of hope
I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you, protect you
And to give you a future full of hope
I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you, protect you
And to give you a future full of hope
I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you, protect you
And to give you a future full of hope
The Lord is my light and my salvation
The Lord is the strength of my life
Of whom shall I be afraid?
Of whom shall I be afraid?
I release any fear of the future
I stand on the promises of God
I release any doubt or confusion
I trust in the power of God’s love
What God has planned for the people who love Him
Is more than eyes have seen or ears have ever heard
What God has planned has never even entered our minds
Rejoice my soul, for what God has planned
What God has planned
Is more than our minds can conceive or imagine
Trust what God has planned
Awesome stuff !!!
This gets better each time I listen it. Look forward to seeing some more.
Keep it up!!!!
Can we have the lyrics for What God Has Planned?
Awesome Job!!!
Very enjoyable, professional choir singing. It will inspire many other students to develop these skills.
WOW!!! Excellent everything!!!!!
Well done everyone.
Great singing.
Excellent conducting Nikki
Seriously high voices!!!!! Nice job
Excellent performance!
Would be allowed to ask for an encore?
Didn’t know you had it in you Georgie!! Awesome singing…very impressive voices everyone, keep it up
serious stuff guys.
Great choir, great talent coming from Biggleswade keep singing amazing young people.
Amazing singing guys awesome!!!!!!!
love the songs.