6.45am Get up
7.30am Leave home for the Cathedral.
8.20am Morning rehearsal with Mr Partington at the Cathedral Song School - we usually do warm ups to get our voices woken up and then look at music for the evening service, or look ahead to the weekend music.
9.00am Rehearsal ends and we are taken over to school by the Chorister Tutor.
9.10am Lessons start.
11.10am We all have one singing lesson per week - working on technique, breathing, sight-reading etc. We also have weekly theory lessons - most of us get our Grade 5 theory before we leave the choir.
12.50pm Today I am involved with Chorister Outreach - that means that some of us go to a local primary school for about an hour to sing with their choir - each term we put on a concert where all the choirs sing together.
3.30pm Tea and prep - while most other students are doing after school activities or going home, we stay to have tea and do our prep before rehearsal.
4.30pm Back over to the Cathedral to rehearse the music for Evensong - we sing up to 5 different pieces a night; and Introit, the Psalm, a Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis and an Anthem - and that's 6 days a week!
4.50pm The Lay Clerks (professional adult singers) join us in the rehearsal - they sing the other parts; alto, tenor and bass.
5.30pm We all line up in our scarlet cassocks and white surplices ready to sing the service. The numbers at evensong vary from 10 to 200 people, this service has been sung everyday in the same part of the building for over 900 years. It is very special.
6.15pm Our parents meet us and take us home, unless we have a concert, when we might not leave the Cathedral until after 9pm and then we might fall asleep in the car!
On Saturdays we rehearse from 3.00pm until 4.00pm when we sing evensong at 4.15pm.
On Sundays we have a very busy day, rehearsing from 9.20am for the morning service which usually finishes about 11.30 am. Then we are back at 2.00pm for an hour's rehearsal before evensong at 3.00pm.
Then home!