The main 8 are in school cafeteria. They have just finished their lunch so they are drinking fresh fruit juice from a fruit box.
George: This fruit juice is good.
Zoe: Yeah.
Then Blake and Reece were looking at some old photos of SJSS school.
Harvey: What's that?
Blake: Old photos from a very long long time ago. When Queen Victoria became queen, known as the Victorian era.
Ms. Jackson: What are you lot looking at?
Ms. Jackson came into the cafeteria out of nowhere.
Reece: Some old photos, this one was back in the Victorian era.
Ms. Jackson: Ah, let me tell you what happened long ago, way back when Queen Victoria became queen.
George: Can we listen too?
Ms. Jackson: Sure, gather around guys. The year was 1870.
There is a flashback scene in 1870 when Ms. Jackson's great grandmother was a teacher.
Ms. Jackson: (narrating) My great grandmother was a history teacher teaching primary school students. She goes by the name, Ms. Jacqueline Johnson.
Ms. Johnson: Queen Victoria was born in 1819, she married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1840 and he died 9 years ago in 1861.
Then the flashback scene stopped and the scene cuts back to the present day in 2019.
George: Hold up, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha died in 1861 and the story you're telling us takes place in 1870?
Ms. Jackson: Can I finish the story?
George: Go ahead.
Flashback scene plays again in 1870.
Ms. Jackson: (narrating) Then, my great-grandmother met my great-grandfather who goes by the name, Sir Albert Jackson. He was the principal of St. John Secondary school at the time. They both fell in love. Everyday, after lessons, they would meet up.
Mr. Jackson: So, who do you teach, Ms. Johnson?
Ms. Johnson: I teach history for the seniors, Year 10, 11 and 12.
Mr. Jackson: I see.
Ms. Johnson: What about you?
Mr. Jackson: I'm the principal of this school.
Ms. Johnson: Oh really?
Mr. Jackson: Yeah, I even made this school 10 years ago.
Ms. Jackson: (narrating) After months and years of getting to know each other, my great-grandfather proposed to my great-grandmother in 1878. Then 2 years later in 1880, they finally got married and got their first child, my grandfather. Their legacy said that their descendants can be the principal of this school.
Scene cuts back to 2019.
Zoe: Ms. Jackson, we there much children studying here at that time?
Ms. Jackson: No, that was the Victorian era, there weren't much children studying here. They worked in factories.
Brad: Oh dang.
Ms. Jackson: Anyways, during the first world war, my granddad became principal of this school following my great-grandparent's legacies. But there weren't much children attending because of the Spanish Flu pandemic in 1918.
Reece: Then Ms. Jackson, can you explain these photos?
Reece gave his phone to Ms. Jackson.
Ms. Jackson: This photo was taken in the 1940's during the second world war. Children were sent here so that they could get away from German bombers. My grandfather was principal that time.
Aiden: But were there much students there?
Ms. Jackson: A lot, a few years after the war, my mum was born. She became principal of this school when she was 20.
Zoe: That's young.
Harvey: Then you became principal?
Ms. Jackson: No, I wasn't born. But when I was 13, I became a student in this school.
Reece: Did you graduate?
Ms. Jackson: Yes, but I wasn't principal, I was in charge of Margaret Thatcher's paperwork. And then I became principal in 1991, a year after Thatcher died. You may need to head to choir practice now.
Reece: Let's go.
The main 8 went to the choir classroom.
Luke: Guys, what took you so long? Were you in the cafeteria?
George: Just listening to Ms. Jackson about the history of the school.
Reece: Kinda explains these photos, about this, we have a song about history, it's in this sheet music.
Reece passed the sheet music to his friends.
Zoe: Let's do this, man.
Reece: 1 2 3, go!
Song: History by One Direction
Zoe: #You gotta help me, I'm losing my mind #Keep getting the feeling you wanna leave this all behind #Thought we were going strong #I thought we were holding on #Aren't we?#
George: #No, they don't teach you this in school #Now my heart's breaking and I don't know what to do #Thought we were going strong #Thought we were holding on #Aren't we?#
All: #You and me got a whole lot of history #We could be the greatest team that the world has ever seen #You and me got a whole lot of history #So don't let it go, we can make some more, we can live forever#
Brad: #All of the rumours, all of the fights #But we always find a way to make it out alive #Thought we were going strong #Thought we were holding on #Aren't we?#
All: #You and me got a whole lot of history #We could be the greatest team that the world has ever seen #You and me got a whole lot of history #So don't let it go, we can make some more, we can live forever#
Harvey: #Minibars, expensive cars #Hotel rooms, and new tattoos #The good champagne and private planes #But they don't mean anything#
Reece: #'Cause the truth is out, I realise #That without you here, life is just a lie #This is not the end, this is not the end #We can make it, you know it, you know#
All: #You and me got a whole lot of history #We could be the greatest team that the world has ever seen #You and me got a whole lot of history #So don't let it go, we can make some more, we can live forever #You and me got a whole lot of history #We could be the greatest team that the world has ever seen #You and me got a whole lot of history #So don't let it go, we can make some more, we can live forever#
Aiden: #So don't let me go, so don't let me go#
All: #We can live forever#
Troy: #Baby don't you know, baby don't you know#
All: #We can live forever#
Shawn: Did Ms. Jackson tell you the history of this school?
Zoe: Yes, this school has started in 1860 way back into the Victorian era. It was a little different back then. Now this school relocated from London to Birmingham because someone let the dinosaurs out that destroyed Georgetown.
Connor: Where did they get the name of this neighbourhood?
George: King George III, just like the one in Penang Island, Malaysia. Not me.
Reece: Anyways, there is another song we are going to do before heading to the O2 Arena in London and Arena Birmingham. It's an oldie.
Troy: Oldie? You mean old like the Vietnam war? the 1960's and 70's?
Calum: We are not performing Fortunate Son.
Reece: Not that, 'oldie' as in when we were born. Back in the 2000's era. This is the sheet music, now 1 2 3 go!
Song: In The End by Linkin Park
Zoe: #It starts with one#
Blake: #One thing, I don't know why #It doesn't even matter how hard you try #Keep that in mind #I designed this rhyme to explain in due time#
George: #All I know#
Blake: #Time is a valuable thing #Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings #Watch it count down to the end of the day #The clock ticks life away#
Brad: #It's so unreal#
Blake: #You didn't look out below #Watch the time go right out the window #Tryin' to hold on, didn't even know #I wasted it all just to watch you go #I kept everything inside #And even though I tried, it all fell apart #What it meant to me will eventually be a memory #Of a time when I tried so hard#
Brad: #I tried so hard and got so far #But in the end, it doesn't even matter #I had to fall to lose it all #But in the end, it doesn't even matter#
Reece: #One thing, I don't know why #It doesn't even matter how hard you try #Keep that in mind, I designed this rhyme #To remind myself how I tried so hard #In spite of the way you were mockin' me #Actin' like I was part of your property #Remembering all the times you fought with me #I'm surprised it got so far #Things aren't the way they were before #You wouldn't even recognise me anymore #Not that you knew me back then #But it all comes back to me in the end #You kept everything inside #And even though I tried, it all fell apart #What it meant to me will eventually #Be a memory of a time when I tried so hard#
Harvey: #I tried so hard and got so far #But in the end, it doesn't even matter #I had to fall to lose it all #But in the end, it doesn't even matter#
George: #I've put my trust in you #Pushed as far as I can go #For all this #There's only one thing you should know #I've put my trust in you #Pushed as far as I can go #For all this #There's only one thing you should know#
All: #I tried so hard and got so far #But in the end, it doesn't even matter #I had to fall to lose it all #But in the end, it doesn't even matter#
Reece: This song will be in our set list.
Everyone: Yeah!
Jenny: Hey guys, I also got a set list for the theatre and choir kids. For both the O2 Arena and the Arena Birmingham.
Reece: That's right, in the first day, we will be performing the Prince of Egypt and then the next day, we'll be performing the songs the choir kids will be performing.
Blake: We will also be performing alongside the UK's most famous celebrities in the O2.
Jenny: But I need your help, we need you guys to help practise alongside us.
Reece: Okay, c'mon guys.
Everyone: (laughs)