Christine Sloan (left), Clive Stanworth and Christine Brown, with the animal heads they will wear in Ivy Bank School's sequence from "Noye's Fludde" at the festival.

From an article by Norman Powell:
There is a great deal of after-school activity in Burnley schools this week, with the final preparations for the Schools' Music and Drama Festival, which will take place next Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. So many children are involved that three separate concerts have been arranged, all of which will be held on the same evenings but at separate venues.

Concert A will be held at Barden School, and six schools will be presenting items ranging from infant and primary schools to senior boys and girls. Recorder playing, dancing, folk songs and the Barden Brass Band are all included in the programme.
Concert B will be staged at the Girls High School, with tambourine items, singing games and a string orchestra. Ivy Bank School will present a sequence from Benjamin Britten's "Noye's Fludde" and some remarkable animal heads have been designed and made at the school for this item.
Concert C will be presented at St Theodore's School with an attractive and varied programme, which will include Gilbert and Sullivan items from Burnley Wood Junior, and extracts from St Theodore's "The Gondoliers." Towneley will present a scene from their recent musical, "Cover the World," and St Hilda's will stage Mary O'Neill's "Adventures in Colour."

More than 1,000 young people, ranging from infants to seniors, will be taking part in the concerts and it is hoped that the work of staff and pupils will be amply rewarded by good attendances on the three evenings concerned.