Year 5 prepare for the Hackney Junior Singing Festival
We'll be visiting the Round Chapel (Powerscroft Road) with the whole of Year 5 on Wednesday 28th June 2023. Parents are welcome to come and watch the show from 4-5pm - just £1 entry fee! Don't forget to practise your songs. You can use the tracks below to help you. Remember we are singing in Block B so you can listen to those tracks to help you to learn the harmonies.
Year 2 preparation for the Hackney Singing Festival
All of our children in Year 2 will also be performing at the Round Chapel on Wednesday 28th June at 10.45am. The children will be singing with children from many other Hackney schools. You are very welcome to come and hear the performance - in fact you don't want to miss it! The show will last for about an hour.
Year 2: Here are the tracks to help you to listen to and practise singing the songs at home. Can you remember the lyrics?
Early Years at the Hackney Music Festival
Both of our reception classes AS WELL as our nursery children will be at the Round Chapel on Friday 30th June to sing their hearts out. They have been busy practising the songs at home, but you can also listen to them here:
The children will be singing with children from many other Hackney schools. You are very welcome to come and hear the performance. It's always a fun and inspiring occasion and your child will be so happy to see you there. Please note - Nursery will be singing in the show at 9.30am and Reception will be taking part at 11.30am.
Year 4 visit the LSO at the Barbican
Another exciting trip to the Barbican - we are so lucky! Year 4 will be taking part in this concert based on the story of the composer George Gershwin. Gershwin was an American composer and pianist who lived from 1898 - 1937. He wrote many many famous pieces such as Rhapsody in Blue, I Got Rhythm, An American In Paris and the opera Porgy and Bess. We learnt that although he was incredibly successful writing a mixture of popular, jazz and classical music, Gershwin felt that he wasn't as good as some of the serious French classical composers of the time. He visited Ravel and others in Paris, but they showed him he was already writing music brilliantly in his own way. This song by Rachel Leach celebrates George and the importance of being yourself! Can you learn the lyrics and sing with only the backing track?
Train! Boat! Plane! Taxi!
George Gershwin was looking for the perfect sound
He wrote songs, he wrote dances
He had people spellbound
But the thing he most wanted above the rest
Was to write for the orchestra
That was his quest
Train! Boat! Plane!
So he travelled to France
Via boats, trains and cars
He found people to help
They were big music stars
They heard his music and they all said
Words that would always stay in his head
TAXI!
You can move to Alaska
You can trek through Timbuktu
You can ride through the desert
You can visit London Zoo
You can circle the globe
Or hide in your wardrobe
But you’ll always come back to you
You can’t get away from you
There will never be a better you than you
So just be you!
We will also hear music from composers Scott Joplin, Lili Boulanger, Aaron Copland and Maurice Ravel. Check them out!
Year 2 visit the LSO at the Barbican
Year 2 are off to see the London Symphony Orchestra is November. The concert is based on the story 'I Need My Monster' by Amanda Noll and Howard McWilliam. It will include some monster music by different classical composers and all of the children will be singing along with the orchestra in a special song written by Rachel Leach. Practise the song with the tracks below. Can you remember the song well enough to sing it solo with the piano track?
Year 3 Classical Roadshow Trip
In Year 3 we have been improving our singing skills whilst preparing for a performance with the London Mozart Players. We are excited to be going on a trip to Milton Court Concert Hall on Monday 17th October. We will be performing in Fire! a story with music about the Great Fire of London. And we have lots of songs to learn in a short time. You can use the tracks below to help you to practise at home. Listen carefully to the pitch and try to make the words clear. Listen carefully for where the melody changes. Have fun!
Year 5 at the Hackney Singing Festival
Hello Year 5! Here's where you can get out your songbook and practise the songs for the singing festival at 4pm on Wednesday 6th July. We will be singing at the Round Chapel without lyrics, so the more words you can learn, the more you will enjoy the concert. Which is your favourite song? Have you invited someone to come and see the concert?
Year 2 at the Hackney Singing Festival
Year 2 children are off to the Round Chapel to perform on Thursday 7th July. Use the tracks below to practise your songs. Can you remember all of the words and sing them clearly? Which bits are quiet and which are loud? Remember to practise the tricky bits and all of the actions. Which is your favourite song? Can you teach it to someone in your family?
London Symphony Orchestra KS1 Concert - A Piece of the Puzzle
Year 1 are going to see and hear the London Symphony Orchestra on Monday 9th May at the Barbican Concert Hall. We are very excited and we've been working hard on our songs. The songs teach us about the different parts of music and how they fit together like a puzzle!
Bass, rhythm, melody and harmony... and how even a one-note melody (like B) can sound exciting when you do different things with the bass, harmony and rhythm - and the expression.
Can you help us to practise all of the words, using the tracks and lyrics below? Some of the songs go REALLY fast!
London Symphony Orchestra KS2 Concert - The Spark Catchers
Year 5 are off to the Barbican on Wednesday 4th May to see and hear the London Symphony Orchestra playing a programme of pieces by female composers. We have been making our own music based on The Spark Catchers by London-born composer Hannah Kendall. She in turn based her music on the poem of the same name by Lemn Sissay. Sissay was inspired by the story of the matchwomen - workers at the Bryant and May match factory which used to be in East London. The women and girls at the factory worked in extremely dangerous conditions. They wanted to change this and so went on strike - the first organised strike of workers in the UK. Their actions have inspired many more unions since then to demand better pay and conditions for workers.
You can read the poem and find out more about the factory here:
Spark Catchers by Lemn Sissay | Proletarian Poetry
Listen again to Hannah Kendall's piece. It's full of danger notes, busy rhythms and sound effects. What do you hear in the music? Do you like it? What do you like or dislike? Which instrument would you play if you could be in the orchestra?
Enjoy!
nice music
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