Music
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We are on our way! A few things for the day: Firstly Young Voices have an app you can download to your phone with information and our location. We are at the top of block 108 which is behind the stage. Updates will be made via social media when we […]
We are pleased to confirm that we have been liaising with Young Voices and The O2 and they are rectifying the problem with our tickets. They have voided the tickets that we have been sent and are sending us our new ones. We are awaiting arrival of these and will […]
Thank you to all the parents and friends who came to support the Christmas Carol Service in school this morning. The children sang a range of songs beautifully. Well done to you all and have a very merry Christmas.
Black Tigers are featured on RockSteadyTV this week performing “I Knew You Were Trouble”. They’ll be performing live at the school in December! Click on the photo to watch their video on Vimeo! I Knew You Were Trouble – Black Tigers from Rocksteady Music School on Vimeo.
A quick reminder that there is a meeting for anyone in Key Stage 2 who would like information on learning to play an instrument in school. 6pm in Mrs Rayner’s classroom. Children welcome.
Don’t forget the meeting tonight with Music For Schools if you are interested in finding out more about your child learning to play an instrument in school. 6pm in Mrs Rayner’s room. Please come round to her side door. Children are encouraged to come too to discuss the most appropriate […]
It has been a busy time at Holy Trinity. Sports days, Seaside Trips, The Summer Festival etc. etc. I hope that you enjoyed the Summer Festival – it was great to see so many friends and family at the event and to see our children enjoying their performances. The quality […]
The Summer Festival, featuring all the children in Key Stage 2, will take place tomorrow afternoon. (Weather permitting – it looks OK at the moment!) ‘Gates’ open at 1.30pm for a 1.45pm start – friends and family welcome!
Preparations are well underway for our Key Stage 2 Summer Festival this Friday! Lots of singing and dancing can be seen and heard! We have even tested out our new stage kindly funded by the PTFA. We hope you are able to join us for our performance and then after […]
We are planning to end the School Year in style with the Holy Trinity Summer Festival. We are working towards an ‘open air’ music festival [weather permitting of course] where our children can showcase their talents and parents and families can come along and have a great time too! We […]
Young Voices (the organisers of the concert attended by the choir last Tuesday) have published a video of our concert on YouTube, and we have embedded it in our website below. We appear in the top right hand of the screen at around 1.10 minutes and again at 2.05 minutes. […]
Children from the choir travelled to London yesterday to sing at The O2. They spent many weeks rehearsing a large number of songs ready to perform with 7000 other children. After a long afternoon of rehearsals, the arena became packed with parents, friends and family who came to watch. A […]
There is still time between now and the end of term to buy a copy of our Christmas CD, “Christmas Time”. Professionally recorded by MySchoolCD.co.uk and featuring the vocal talents of the entire school, this unique recording is only £7.99! Tracklisting Mary’s Boy Child – Whole School Little Donkey – Hedgehog […]
Dear Parents, As you will see by the certificate your child was given today, we have made our CD recording! The children had great fun recording and our thanks go to My School CD for making it such a success. The CDs are being sold at £7.99 each and profits […]
Don’t forget there is a meeting tonight for any Key Stage 2 children interested in having music lessons in school. Please meet in Mrs Rayner’s class room at 6.30. Children are encouraged to attend too so that they can try out the instruments.
Mr Summers from the Music For Schools Foundation visited the KS2 children this morning showing the range of woodwind and brass instruments that they can learn to play. Some children got to have a go at playing the instruments. If you are interested in your child learning to play an […]
Here are selected recordings from our two Harvest Festival performances earlier this week. They were recorded on Mr. Handy’s mobile phone so are not of the greatest quality but they do serve as a lovely reminder of the children’s singing. (The forthcoming Christmas CD is being professionally recorded – don’t […]
IMPORTANT NOTICE “Food Glorious Food” Tuesday 16th July, 6.30pm Dear Parents, Carers and Friends As I am sure you are aware, we are holding an early evening performance of ‘Food Glorious Food’ tomorrow starting at 6.30pm. It has come to our attention, from talking to our children, that a very […]
“Food Glorious Food” is a performance of songs from Oliver! by our Key Stage 2 children. We are holding two performances, at 1.30pm and 6.30pm, both on Tuesday 16th July. In order to avoid overcrowding in the hall the shows will be ticketed – 2 per family. A letter with […]
Children from Key Stage One travelled to Earls Colne Primary School to perform some of the songs they had been learning all about Spring. The children behaved and performed beautifully and the crowns they made looked amazing!
Mrs Sibley set her class a homework linked to our ‘Let Us Entertain You’ theme. The children could produce any piece of work on any entertainer of their choice. The response was amazing! Along with the spoof Ant & Dec OK! Magazine, David Walliams doll and a cake in the […]
Here’s the latest leader board from the Essex Sumdog.com contest: Keep answering questions and pile on the points!
Special thanks to the Holy Trinity School Choir who sang at the Queen’s Hall in Halstead last week. Well done for representing your school with such distinction!
I am learning how to play the clarinet through Music for Schools. It is so much fun and I am learning to read music. In time for christmas I can now play Good King Wenceslas!! By Rosie Day.
Years 3 & 4 have been using O-Generator to build pieces of music. Using laptops and headphones, it’s also a silent music lesson! This afternoon Class H experimented with a single bar of music, using sounds from a drum kit, percussion instruments, a bass guitar and some vocals, although Owen […]
Dear Parents/Carers For a considerable amount of time, we have tried to organise some form of peripatetic Music tuition in school; feedback and surveys have often told us that a growing number of parents are extremely keen to encourage their children to learn a musical instrument. We have examined different options and […]
On Monday afternoon Riotous Assembly visited Holy Trinity to work with the whole school.(Riotous Assembly is the collective name for this group of musicians who came together in the spring of 2009 via such routes as folk music, the popular music culture of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, […]