Kentish Express Ashford & District
Mexican night
A Mexican meal and quiz night will be held on Friday, February 3 in the John Wallis Academy restaurant at 7pm.
Teams of up to six are invited to take part and the £10 per person entry fee includes a meal of nachos, chilli and rice and a dessert.
Tickets in advance only from the Academy reception in Millbank Road, Ashford, telephone 01233 623465.
The evening will raise money for the Build Hope Mexico charity, with pupils and staff visiting later this year to take part in a house-building project for a homeless family. Pupils at Ashford’s Norton Knatchbull Grammar School have taken up the challenge of performing a classical Greek play again this year.
Next month, the school’s classics department will stage their fourth annual drama production, Iphigenia at Aulis by Euripides.
The productions have grown in popularity and pupils from Year 10 to Year 13 were given parts and were keen to become involved in everything from the music, to the artwork, set design, costume, lighting and filming.
Author, broadcaster and classicist, Prof Edith Hall from King’s College, London will deliver a pre-show talk on Iphigenia, a play that acts as the prequel to the Trojan War. She is working on a project to promote the clas- sical civilisation courses, which allows the study of the Greeks and Romans in English translation, to state schools across the UK.
The course has been running at Norton Knatchbull in Hythe Road for four years with good exam results at GCSE and A-level. It was a reading of the chapter on Iphigenia in Edith’s book, Greek Tragedy: Suffering Under the Sun that inspired the Norton Knatchbull production.
Prof Hall will appear live before t he production on Wednesday, February 8. This will be filmed and shown at the start of the show on Thursday, February 9.
Tickets, priced £5 for adults and £3 for pupils and concessions, will be available on the door but email PFound@nks. kent.sch.uk to reserve seats for group bookings. You can also call 01233 620045 for tickets.