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The South Tyneside StorySouth Tyneside schools perform at the Millennium Dome.The McDonalds Our Town project began for South Tyneside before the 1999 summer holidays when Music Adviser Roger McKone contacted all the schools in the Borough inviting them to a meeting at the Chuter Ede Education centre in South Shields to discuss participation. Prior to the meeting Roger had called to see myself and Freda Carney, my colleague from the Music department, to make sure that one of us would be going to the meeting, and I agreed that I would. I confess that I was very surprised when I arrived to find that very few schools were represented: just four comprehensives and an infants school. After some discussion it was agreed that I would create a scenario for the piece to be produced so that we would have something more concrete to discuss, and that Roger would circulate it to the other interested schools in time for a further meeting in the last week of term. So the scenario was produced and distributed. At the meeting staff from another comprehensive school came along, but one of those which had been at the previous meeting had said they really only wanted to take part in the exhibition, so there were still only four involved in the performance aspect. We did agree that my scenario would make a good starting point, and then most of the rest of the meeting was taken up with discussing administrative details. We decided that a day-long workshop involving all the kids that would take part should be held on 1st October and that we, the staff, would meet early in the Autumn term to plan the day. After the meeting Roger asked if I would be willing to take on the role of the project director, subject to the agreement of my Head, and I said that I would. The following day he spoke to the Head and got his agreement, and there everything stopped until the beginning of the 1999-2000 school year. >> Part II
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