Music

Y3 used the chime bars to make up their own rhythm patterns.

Music – An Intro to Jazz

In Year 5 Music, we have started listening to Jazz and had a go at playing along on the chime bars.

Year 4 – Ukulele

Children are doing extremely well with our ukulele unit this term!

Y6 Music

This week Year 6 worked with Carmel from the Wigan Music Service to identify and play rhythm patterns using ½ beat (quavers) , 1 beat (crotchets), 2 beat (minims), 4 beat (semibreve) notes.

Spreading Christmas Cheer

🎼🎅During this festive season, our St. Jude’s School Choir have been spreading Christmas cheer throughout the community.

🎤❄The children were invited to perform at St Jude’s Social Club during their weekly ‘Wednesday Warm and Cosy’, where the choir sang a variety of songs they have been preparing for their upcoming concert in March, as well as Christmas carols. They also visited the local retirement home, St. Clements Court, and performed Christmas songs for the residents, who generously gave the children a selection box as a gift. 🎄

A Christmas to Remember

The children were invited by the Wigan Music Service to watch a special Christmas production of The Snowman with the Wigan Youth Orchestra. The children loved listening to the brilliant ensemble along with recognising songs from different Christmas films. It was a pleasure to watch the talent children we have in Wigan.

Year 5 – Music – ENO ‘Finish This’ Project

Year 5 spent Spring term composing and practising the performance of the instrumental part of their English National Opera project with Carmel. We chose the colour BLUE (cobalt) to represent with our music and created a libretto of a number of different words that we associated with the colour, some of which we used within our opera pieces. We also had the ENO education team and official ENO photographer, Jason Lock, visit the class to observe our hard work on the projects so far and take pictures in action for the ENO’s ‘Finish This’ project and website. We sent off our project at the end of Easter, and the ENO composers were so impressed that they created an animated video around our composition. What an amazing opportunity! Year 5 should be very proud of themselves. Catch the video of our piece, with the music here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_Whh3ZhgYk&list=PL7ShuxblyYmHkuuhTtDGY2OZZnoPhkORR&index=15