Music

 Music at St. Peter's

Music is an important part of  life here at St. Peter's. We aim to foster a real love of music in the children. We want them to enjoy learning about music and to look forward to their music lessons. It has been at the heart of many different events that have occurred at St. Peter’s school and further out in the community over many years. and to equip them with a music vocabulary  toolbox too so that they can fully explore their responses to music.

Children enjoy learning to play a number of different instruments, including the ukulele, recorder, glockenspiel and a wide range of percussion. Furthermore,  Children across all of KS1 and KS2 are taught by a specialist music teacher during weekly music lessons.

Singing goes from strength to strength at St. Peter’s. Over the years the choir has performed at a variety of venues, including Manchester Arena, The Guild Hall in Preston, Chorley Town Hall,  Westholme Independent School and more locally Fosterfields Day Centre which is just along the road from school. Most recently we took part in the Chorley Big Sing at Chorley Town Hall,along with choirs from many local primary schools. It was lovely to be able to perform in front of an audience again following the pandemic. We were very proud of them!

We have a junior choir that meets after school where we prepare for events in and out of school. We want to have fun with our singing and yet at the same time ensure that the children understand the importance of warming up the voice and treating it as the valuable instrument that it is.

We give the children opportunities to experience live music whenever possible - their reactions to these experiences are wonderful to see!   We have had visits from Rock Kidz and Lancashire Music Service specialists. We also have a number of rock bands in school who are taught weekly by an amazing teacher from Rocksteady. Children can choose to learn electric drums/keyboard/electric guitar or become a lead singer and develop their vocal skills. We had a concert for parents last term and we are looking forward to holding them each term this year. .

Getting the hang of playing different chords on the ukulele.  Listen to how well well Beech class are doing.......

Year 5 had a great time taking part in their first bucket drumming session...

OCARINAS

Hawthorn Class love learning their ocarina instrument. This is a 4 holed wind instrument originally from south America.

We have learned new songs each session, played as soloists, duets, quartets and as a whole orchestra.

We have learnt a new game with 'Twinkle Twinkle' during which a child counts us in when another child is tapped on the shoulder, they must stop playing. It's nerve-wracking for the last person playing!

We have played as a 4 group round for 'London's Burning'.

We follow oc-pix notation which has moved on from ocarina shape to squares. Today we learnt how to keep a beat of 4 with a semi-breve.

Our songs so far:

Twinkle Little Star

Happy Birthday

London's Buring

Frere Jacques

Old MacDonald

Yankee Doodle

Au Clair de la Lune

Little Bird

Chorley Music Centre is run by Lancashire Music Service. It is based at Southlands High School and tuition takes place every Monday between 3.30pm and 7pm. 

Here’s class 1 learning about Rhythm and how to interpret music through dance. 

Class 2 have learnt about different musical instruments through Charranga