PUPILS from Neroche Primary School who formed a choir at the start of the academic year recited carols at Ilminster’s Christmas lights switch on event. 

The newly formed Key Stage Two choir performed to crowds from inside Ilminster’s Market Square on Friday, November 22, 2024. The choir had its first ever public performance at Broadway’s Remembrance Service on November 11.

Nella, from Year 3, said: “I love singing in the choir, it's my favourite place, it's my happy place! I enjoyed singing at the Ilminster Christmas lights.

Five local schools performed at Ilminster’s Market Square, including South Petherton, Herne View Ilminster, Hambridge, Ilton and Shepton Beauchamp.

Farley, also from Year 3, said: “I like choir because I get opportunities to sing, be in a group, and to be able to do things for the school.”

Another pupil in the choir, Eddie, who is in Year 4 at Neroche, said: “The choir makes me happy in lots of different ways; it makes us feel like we are part of something and a proper team at Neroche. I have lots more confidence and Miss Peat really believes in us. Singing makes us all feel really good.”