Welcome to St Peter's Music Page

Music has been proven to have a huge impact on a child’s learning, well-being and social engagement.

Instrumental Tuition

Drums:

Mr Denniston provides drumming lessons. Please inform the Junior Office should you wish your child to receive drumming lessons. These lessons will be £8.00 per week.

Strings:

We’re so excited to announce that The Strings Club and their multi award-winning lessons are providing lessons at our school. Please see the details below from them.

They will be offering:

• Ukulele afterschool club - Reception and KS1 (Year 1 & 2)
• Violin in school small group lessons - Year 3, 4, 5 & 6
• Guitar in school small group lessons - Year 3, 4, 5 & 6
• Ukulele in school small group lessons - Year 3, 4, 5 & 6

5 reasons why to consider lessons for your child with The Strings Club?

• Cost effective - lessons start from £5 a week and include the hire of an instrument.
• Award-winning - From The Apprentice’s Karren Brady to the Great British Entrepreneur awards, our programmes have gained national recognition since 2012 for its refreshing approach to music and childcare.
• Exclusive discount - 10% off our Ofsted-registered Harborne Holiday Camp
• End of term concert and certificates - a chance for you to celebrate what your child has achieved and what fun they’ve had.
• Fantastic teachers - we only hire the best teachers in town!

To register your interest, please complete the online form here. 

The Strings Club will then be in touch soon with further info including start dates, times and ways to pay.

Some of our favourite songs to sing as a school...

Below you will find a fantastic selection of websites to support your child's learning at home. 

YUMU - YUMU is an online space where children can learn, play and develop their music knowledge. Your child will receive their log in details from their teacher shortly. A range of YUMU packages will be available to extend your child's learning. 

Singing Hands - A lovely YouTube channel that introduces you to the amazing world of signing with Makaton. Their enthusiastic approach is designed to help develop communication through music, and focus on learning language in a way that is motivating, engaging and most of all, fun! Have a go at learning a song! 

BBC Ten Pieces - On this website, you can select pieces of music to watch and listen to being played by an orchestra. BBC Ten Pieces also have some suggestions for how to get arty, such as after listening to a great piece of music, create some inspired artwork in response. Also, the children can take part in an interactive live lesson, as well as exploring rhythm and pulse. 

G A L L E R Y

Nursery

Nursery taking part in a BoogieMites lesson. 

Reception

"I like playing the glockenspiels" - Aarika

"I like singing" - Isaac

"I always like the tune" - Jasmine

"I like music it makes me feel happy" - Chardonnay

Reception are having lots of fun learning to play the Glockenspiel during Music lessons. 

Key Stage One

Year One

"I like listening to songs and listening for different instruments" - Felix

"I love playing the glockenspiels" - Anja

"I like singing. I love singing use your imagination" - Sarah

"I love music because it is groovy. I like listening to songs and then clapping" - Charlie

Year One learning to play the notes C and D on the Glockenspiels. 

Year One have been learning about the Creation Story in RE. They talked about the importance of a day of rest in the Genesis story. The children listened to two pieces of music and shared how the music made them feel. You can see their responses below:

John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine

"I felt exhausted because the music was fast" - Viraj

"I felt stressed" - Alfie

"I felt amazed" - Harsamrat

Rimsky Korsakov: Scheherazade, 3rd Movement

"I felt calm and relaxed" - Erin

"I feel well rested" - Whitney

Then, they created a piece of art work to show how the music made them feel. On the outside, they scribbled furiously to the John Adams piece and on the inside the drew calmly to the Rimsky Korsakov's piece.

Key Stage Two

Instrumental Tuition pictures

Look through the slideshow to see the children enjoying their instrumental lessons.