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A second Gold medal has been won by Adcote School at the Shrewsbury Flower Show, hot on the heels of their RHS silver gilt medal at Malvern. Adcote gardeners have previously won a gold medal at the Shewsbury Flower Show with their first garden in 2006.

Gymnasts from Adcote School for Girls are celebrating again after returning with armfuls of medals from the weekend's competition. Organised by the Midlands Independent School Gymnastics Association (MISGA), and held at the Blue Coat School in Edgebaston, the competition involved girls of all ages from independent schools across the region.

Following their annual open garden and fete, Adcote School for Girls has raised over £850 for the charity 'Help for Heroes'.

Adcote School gardeners are celebrating again, having just collected a Silver Gilt award for their latest show garden at the prestigious Malvern Spring Garden Show last week. This year the school was sponsored by the West Mercia Police as part of the constabulary's 40th birthday celebrations. The girls created two gardens, the first set in 1967 featuring a rockery, crazy paving and lots of bright annuals.

Adcote gymnast Harriet Shakeshaft is celebrating, having been placed first in the West Midlands under 13 novice gymnastics competition at the weekend. On Sunday 4th May Harriet travelled to Worcester with the Border Counties Gym club to compete against fifty other girls for the West Midlands championship. In the four part competition Harriet was placed first in the floor exercise and third on the bars. She then did well enough in the vault and the beam to be the overall winner in her age group. Harriet said, "It was just amazing to win, competing against so many other gymnasts."

Harriet is now looking forward to competing in the Midlands Independent Schools Gymnastics Association competition at the end of June with the rest of her team from Adcote.

On May 3rd pupils from Adcote School performed at the prestigious Albert Hall in London. As part of the larger 'Steps' dance company, twelve students performed 'Defying Gravity' from the musical Wicked.

On Thursday and Friday last week parents and friends at Adcote School were treated to an evening of first class dance, drama and singing. The show, simply entitled "That's Entertainment", involved most of the girls in the school and was a showcase for performance pieces created in and outside of lessons.

The 'Street Style Dance Com pany' and the 'Lights, Camera, Action (LCA) Dance Com pany', both based at Adcote School , performed original dances choreographed by Adcote pupils. Year 10 GCSE drama students performed a chilling adaptation of Jekyll and Hyde featuring shadow puppets alongside costumed actors. Year 8 produced an original piece of drama entitled 'Captain Pugwash' whilst year 7 retold the story of the Hare and the Hedgehog.

Musical highlights included 'With One Look' sung by Vicky Matthews and 'When Sunny Gets Blue' sung by Kelsey Horton. Emily Brown's haunting rendition of 'I Dreamed a Dream' from Les Miserables brought tears to the eyes of many in the audience, whilst Alex MacDonald and Kim-Michelle Brown's version of 'Popular' from the musical 'Wicked' left the house in stitches of laughter.

The evening helped to raise funds for three Adcote dancers, Jemma Hoadley, Vicky Matthews and Natalie Prudence, who are travelling to New York for a week at the end of May to train with professional Broadway dancers and choreographers as part of their BTech in Dance.

Tuesday was the last day of the spring term at Adcote School , and according to their tradition the Junior Department presented their mothering day prayers. Mothers were treated to four songs about spring and mothers, including 'Don't forget to tell your Mum you love her.' Katie Davidson also sang 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' beautifully as a solo and Florence Galliers played a piano solo.