A FANTASTIC Concert

Wow! Queensbridge musicians - we were blown away by your performances at the concert. We've only had a short time to prepare, but all of the groups and soloists were a joy to listen to, and you showed how much progress you are making. Keep it up! More pics to follow, but here's film of the concert to enjoy. 

Together with Music at Beaumont Lodge

A group of Year 3 students visited Beaumont Lodge residential home today to take part in a music workshop. We have been linked with Beaumont Lodge (near London Fields) through an intergenerational organisation called Together With Music. We enjoyed having the chance to meet some of the residents and to learn some songs with Mary, who also played us some jazz tunes on the clarinet and saxophone. 

The children listened so brilliantly and joined in whole-heartedly with the activities. We had a go at singing, actions and conducting, and we get to visit again next week! We were even given squash and biscuits after all of the music. 

Can you spot your friends in the pictures? Do you know anyone who lives in a residential home? Which song from Queensbridge would you like to share with others in our local community? 

Samba-tastic!

Year 6 have been working really hard on their Samba Drumming for the last 5 weeks. We wanted to share this little sneak peek of Sapphire Class practising their Samba Reggae. We start with the main groove, where lots of different rhythm patterns played again and again (ostinato patterns) are played together to make polyrhythm. 

What is going well? What do we need to improve? Enjoy!

Our spectacular choir!

 Sing From Your Heart

"Shake off your doubt; what's within, let it OUT!" That's the advice in this wonderful song from Jon Allen, and that's what our spectacular singers in the Junior Choir are doing every time they come to rehearsal. We love this song, and are really excited to have shared it as our first song for Together With Music - an organisation that pairs schools with care homes and other groups in the local community. We can't wait to start getting to know some new friends and hope that our singing will spread some joy. We have been practising FACE singing: focus, action, confidence and energy. Do you think we have got some of these? 

If you'd like to come and join our wonderful choir, we are currently rehearsing after school on Thursdays. See you there!

A Very Queensbridge Christmas 2021

Happy Christmas from all of our wonderful children and staff here at Queensbridge. Because of to Covid cases rising😷we were not able to perform a full concert as planned, but we had a mix of live singing in the playground, and all classes have made a little film of their song. 

We hope you enjoy it and can share it with your families. 💖💖💖😍

Have a good holiday and see you in 2022 for more marvellous music-making!

Music for Youth Prom at the Royal Albert Hall

On Wednesday 3rd November, 24 hard-working musicians from Years 5 and 6 were invited to the Remix Prom at the Royal Albert Hall, run by Music for Youth. This was a really exciting day out! We were entertained by some amazing musical ensembles - bands, orchestras and choirs - from around the UK. We also took part in music and soundscapes by Tim Steiner. Musical groups were placed all around the hall, which made for interesting and exciting effects when we all joined in, as you can see in the photos and video below. Here are plenty of pictures and a brief write-up of the event by some of our musicians in Y5.
Would you like to go to a prom one day?

It was a long journey by public transport. We had to carry all of our instruments!

 

Lunch by the Albert memorial in Hyde Park, and then into the enormous Royal Albert Hall!

As you can see, we were very high up in the Upper Circle.
It was exciting, but quite difficult to see the conductor.
These videos show how we had to be ready fr anything...

The size was amazing and the colours from all of the lights were hypnotising!

Here we are - right at the top!

 

 

These balloons and party poppers ended a wonderful celebration of music and young people!

Hackney Loves Music....and so does Queensbridge!

It's autumn term, and we have started the term by thinking about the music and musicians we love, and the music we don't like! 

Back in June we celebrated Hackney Loves Music day for the first time! We've had the chance to celebrate different types of music and our favourite musicians, instruments, songs and pieces. We have loved hearing about the music lots of you listen to at home. Whether it's music to make you feel calm, or get up and dance, or that challenges you, this world is full of wonderful music for everyone. 

We hope to make this special day a yearly tradition to rival World Book Day! In the meantime, you can enjoy lots of music recommendations from our Queensbridge superstars. 

Ariana, Abba and Ava Max are some top choices, plus anything with amplifiers 💪 (Great costume, James😁)

Beyonce, Billie Eilish, BTS, Bowie and Bob Marley all made an appearance in school:

1980s star Cyndi Lauper and a top conductor popped in for the party, a wonderful drum, Lead singer from The Cure - Robert Smith - and English singer songwriter Dua Lipa!

   

Next up, British singer songwriters Ed Sheeran and Elton John, Freddie Mercury (lead singer with Queen, featured here in their amazing Live Aid show in 1985) and The Greatest Showman, from the popular musical. 

Next up we have a big up for hip hop, and a recommendation for Jake Bugg:

Kasalla's Karneval song 'Pirate' from a special parade in Germany is brilliant fun, and Katy Perry proves popular.  

How do you describe Lizzo? Loud, fun, talented... this American singer, rapper, songwriter and flautist (she plays the flute) sometimes uses a few words that I can't share here in her songs, but here's a clean version of her hit Good As Hell, a recommendation from Y3:

Next up, treat yourself to the legends that are the tremendous Tina Turner and terrific Tupac

Guitarist Slash, from Guns n Roses and 90s girl band The Spice Girls will make you want to dance in this energetic performance from Top of the Pops (it's a show that your teachers and parents watched when they were younger).

Dexter recommends a huge and unexpected hit of 2021 - the Wellerman sea shanty. You know you love it :-) Mrs Woolfenden loves to sing sea shanties with her choir.

Finally, here are a few more general recommendations of genres, styles, musicians, Year 1 having a good old dance to Ghostbusters, plus some wonderful dressing up 👏