Workshop drums home the recycling message

Thursday 8th May 2008, 2:29PM BST.

Mark Shorland takes Grammar and St Sampson’s schoolchildren through their paces yesterday at St James as part of the Big Beat workshop. (Picture by Steve Sarre, 0575829)

STUDENTS from St Sampson’s Secondary School drummed to the beat in preparation for last night’s Liberated Youth Concert.

In a workshop, where Grammar School students also took part, the two groups learnt the message of reusing and recycling followed by a noisy session of drumming on plastic barrels, household piping and kitchen sinks.

Drama student Susanna Wilson, 15, said the workshop was a great way of encouraging children to get involved in music.

‘It’s really good,’ she said. ‘I like music but there are people who don’t and this is a great idea to encourage people into making music especially through the use of recycled objects.’