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

Year 4 Music

Year 4 have been selected to take part in the Hallé Inspire Project this half term. The children loved learning about parts of an orchestra and listening to some fantastic music today. We are going to base our piece of music on the Romans.

Year 4 Ukulele

We had our first ukulele lesson today and we loved it!

Hymn practice for our Harvest Celebration

During hymn practice today we sang our Harvest songs and Carmel helped us by playing along on the piano. We can’t wait to show everyone what we have learnt at our Harvest Mass.

Year 6 music technology

Year 6 have begun to create their own musical compositions using computing software.

Year 4 Music

Year 4 loved exploring the instruments this morning to create a soundscape 🎵

Year 3 Halle Music Project

Year 3 have been taking part in the Halle Music project composing their own piece of music linking to the Stone Age.

Year 4 Ukulele

Another fantastic ukulele lesson learning two new notes!

Carol singing at our local nursing home this Advent

Our choir had a wonderful afternoon singing carols at St. Clements and spreading joy to the elderly in our local community. A wonderful way to spread Christmas cheer to all.

Year 1 Music

Year 1 have been using the chime bars in music this week. They used C and D note to the song ‘In the Groove’.

Year 5 – Trip – ENO ‘Finish This’ Celebration

After our term-based project in Music (set for us by the English National Opera), creating our own composition. We went to Victoria Hall in Bolton to celebrate with other schools in the North West that took part in the project. In the morning, we had chance to compose a new operatic piece of music with the other schools and then in the afternoon we got to watch some ENO opera short productions and show off our own class composition of ‘Royal Purple’ (please see the link to listen to our song yourselves!)
https://soundcloud.com/user-990965572/st-judes-wigan-year-5-royal-purple