OUR MUSIC DAY

COMBER GROVE MUSIC DAY

Each year we have have a MUSIC DAY for our parents, to show them the range of musical instruments our children play. The school choirs also perform. Here's a few photos from this year's two concerts.

Most of our children learn the recorder in Key Stage 2, and here is Liam concentrating hard on the piece he's playing.

Nearly fifty children play the guitar, and parents heard them play a selection of tunes. Making sure all the guitars are in tune for the concert is no easy task! Many of the children buy their own guitars, and after just three lessons they can play a simple tune.

Here's the BRASS GROUP playing 'Eastenders' at this year's Music Day. There are trumpets, euphonium, trombone, and tenor horn. A number of our children have continued playing brass at secondary school. Children start brass in Year 4, and it takes a while before enough notes have been learned to play a tune.

The massed recorders of Comber Grove... but this is actually only one year group! This year their pieces were accompanied by percussion instruments and they played extremely well. The parents were very impressed!

The INFANT CHOIR sang two songs for us, and the first one involved a great deal of movement, as you can see. There are three choirs in the school and we aim to promote a thorough enjoyment of singing from a very early age!

This is Kevin, and we think he's a musical genius! He is only seven, and everybody was astonished at his dexterity on the piano. He started our Music Day programme this year and gave everybody else a standard to aspire to! His sister is also very talented. She's in Year 6 now, and she plays piano, clarinet, and guitar.. and she's also in the choir. Kevin's younger brother will be learning piano soon, and we'll hear him in next year's concert.

We introduced the cello last year and we have a small number of these instruments. This year the cellos played with the violins.. both very hard instruments for young children to learn, but they work very hard and so do their teachers! In this tune, the notes were being plucked.

Here are Sevinc and Emefa playing their cellos. It's easy to miss the note and play slightly out of tune. Children have the option of learning cello in Year 4 or Year 5, and they must show a willingness to practise hard. Both these children play other instruments as well.

Ruth is in Year 6 and she will be leaving in the summer to go to secondary school. Hopefully she will continue to make very good progress with her violin in years to come. We have about twelve violinists and in this picture Ruth is playing Pachabel's Canon. The cellos were playing the lower notes.

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