Clips from the Summer Music Concert in the hall in July!
Wednesday 26 September 2018
Y5 Voyager Concert with the London Symphony Orchestra
9th July 2018
Y5 loved visiting the Barbican Concert Hall to enjoy a show by the London Symphony Orchestra. The show took us on a journey into space, where we listened to music that is recorded on the Golden Record - a disc sent into space with the Voyager II spacecraft in 1977. Hearing and discussing the music helped us to understand why music is important to humans, and how it works. Here are some of our responses to the event:
Before going to the concert, we listened to the beginning of Beethoven's 5th Symphony and to a piece called The Unanswered Question, by Charles Ives. We created our own versions of both pieces. Here's a recording of The Unanswered Question, and underneath some of our pictures to show the different layers of sound that we heard the first time we listened to it. Our drawings helped us to make our own graphic scores like this one: 
The original piece:
This is our remix of Beethoven's 5th:
Y1 Carnival of the Animals concert with the London Symphony Orchestra
6th July 2018
Wow! Our Year 1 children were so excited to sit in the massive Barbican Hall as part of a big audience at the London Symphony Orchestra Concert. The Orchestra played pieces from The Carnival of the Animals by French composer Camille Saint-Saens. We also heard pieces from Malcolm Arnold's less well known Carnival of the Animals. The funniest bit was when the orchestra played the Can-Can from the Tortoise music, but at full speed. All of the children in the hall were bouncing up and down on their chairs. Read our write-ups below to find out more.
You can also listen to the whole of the Carnival of the Animals online:
Wow! Our Year 1 children were so excited to sit in the massive Barbican Hall as part of a big audience at the London Symphony Orchestra Concert. The Orchestra played pieces from The Carnival of the Animals by French composer Camille Saint-Saens. We also heard pieces from Malcolm Arnold's less well known Carnival of the Animals. The funniest bit was when the orchestra played the Can-Can from the Tortoise music, but at full speed. All of the children in the hall were bouncing up and down on their chairs. Read our write-ups below to find out more.
You can also listen to the whole of the Carnival of the Animals online:
Recording our Road Safety Song
July 2018
Children in Turquoise Class have been helping the Junior Road Safety Officers, Lucy and Gabriel, to compose and record a song to help teach small children about crossing the road safely. Thanks also to all of the reception children who helped with the singing and performing.
We are hoping to share the song more widely with Hackney Schools, and perhaps it will be part of the EYFS Singing Festival next summer! Please share the video with your friends who have or work with young children.
In case you missed it:
Children in Turquoise Class have been helping the Junior Road Safety Officers, Lucy and Gabriel, to compose and record a song to help teach small children about crossing the road safely. Thanks also to all of the reception children who helped with the singing and performing.
We are hoping to share the song more widely with Hackney Schools, and perhaps it will be part of the EYFS Singing Festival next summer! Please share the video with your friends who have or work with young children.
In case you missed it:
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