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Woodstock 2025 welcomed musical talent from all over the UK and internationally to the stage right before the end of the school year.

Henry Luck reports.
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00:00Rolling out the red carpet for its students and music talent across the UK and beyond,
00:06Five Acre Wood and Maidstone has celebrated the end of the school year by bringing the magic of
00:13Hollywood to its grounds and is an event that's been taking place for 15 years now.
00:20Five Acre Wood and Maidstone have brought the magic and excitement of a music festival
00:26to its students. Woodstock 2025 was created to allow students to experience the excitement of a
00:34music festival, something many are likely to face challenges witnessing because of neurodivergence.
00:43This is our annual music festival where we bring all the elements of a traditional music festival
00:49to Five Acre Wood School which enables our pupils who are described as having profound,
00:54severe and complex learning needs to access a real deal music festival.
00:58However, not even a sudden downpour was enough to stop everyone from singing in the rain.
01:05It's brilliant, I mean when it first started we had a very small affair where we had children
01:14from local schools singing on the stage and it's grown and grown and grown to the size it is now
01:21where we have fun fairs where we have famous people come and sing and lots of different things for our
01:28young people to do. What's your favourite thing? Mine is probably all the singers that come down
01:34and sing for us. Mine is probably a bit of everything. My favourite one is probably the fun fairs.
01:43And of course, any music festival needs its supporting cast and Five Acre Wood had plenty
01:50of volunteers up to the task. Five Acre Wood is really important so we live in the area,
01:56always knowing it's here. The work they do for the community is absolutely amazing. It's definitely
02:01the area's largest school that caters for the children with advanced special needs. Really glad to
02:08help it and give back to the community in some way. Now that a rap has been called for this school
02:13year at Five Acre Wood, they hope this music concert is an Oscar worthy performance. Henry Luck for
02:22Cain TV in Maidstone.

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