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Music Week June 2011 |
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The pupils have had a great music week this week, ably planned and composed by Miss Gilham. Our thanks to her for her efforts and to all other musicians and teachers from Simon Balle and Presdales who further enhanced our already strong musical curriculum. The symphony involved the following workshop sections and activities: African drumming, steel pan drumming, class composition, samba workshops, piano, flute, violin and choir concerts. The whole school, including each year group also sung and recorded a Morgans CD.
Our CD is available and the children should have brought an order form home this week with details. Please return this as soon as possible. All profits will be put towards further developing music and for this and copyright reasons, we would ask that you do not copy the CDs. Congratulations to Lottie Rowedder for winning the CD cover competition. When you order you will be able to marvel at her masterpiece! |
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Christingle Service Dec 2010 |
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Reception through to Year 6 sung wonderfully to all assembled at our Christingle service at All Saints Church on Monday. Our choir once more resonated throughout the church in a heavenly manner. The symbolism of the service was explained clearly by the children to all present. We hope you all enjoyed sharing this special occasion with us. Thank you for all of your donations - these benefit The Children's Society. |
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Bah Humbug! Scrooge Show Spectacular Dec 2010 |
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The Key Stage 2 performance of 'Scrooge' was mean (though certainly not miserly!) this Wednesday and Thursday, as over 200 townspeople, spirits, ghosts, Cratchits, guests, jig dancers, Fezziwigs, snow dancers, goodies, baddies, waltzers, choir members, traders, school children, young Scrooges, sisters and daughters and stage hands were co-ordinated with surgical precision by the Year 3, 4, 5 and 6 staff team. |
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The main parts of Scrooge, Cratchit, Fred, Fezziwig, and the three spirits were delivered with confidence and the singing was of the usual high Morgans standard throughout. Every single member of the cast and chorus should feel proud of themselves for the role they played. Very well done to all involved and in particular to Miss Gilham for her considerable efforts orchestrating the rehearsal and preparation schedule - no mean (or miserly again!!) feat! |
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Bethlehem Stars. Dec 2010 |
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The three Key Stage 1 performances of 'The Bethlehem Star' were extremely enjoyable on the Monday of this week. The pictures below recall a few highlights and show just how diverse the roles were. The Roman guards were sentry awesome, the stars twinkled brightly, the angels were cherubic, the reporters (whose ties were magnificent!) avid and all other cast members contributed well to the spectacle. The staff and children have been busy over the last few weeks learning all lines, dances and song words for your enjoyment. Well done to all involved. |
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The Bossy King & Nursery Rhyme Nativity Dec 2010 |
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Reception class overcame the adversity of heating problems and a power cut to treat everybody to a rousing performance of 'The Bossy King.' Ellis proved to be very bossy whilst other Kings once more proved wise, angels sang in heavenly tones, animals behaved well in the stable, 'busy, busy' shepherds tea towel tastic, star dancers grace personified, the holy family proved angelic and servants served superbly. Well done to all of our performers and the Foundation Stage team, for organising things so well. I am sure all in attendance will remember the performances for many years. Another performance is being planned as we speak where Annabel will have the opportunity to play The Bossy King in true bossy style!
Nursery also shone brightly this week and our little stars performed 'Nursery Rhyme Nativity' with great panache. The whole class put a huge amount of effort into their show and should be very proud of themselves. |
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Junk Orchestra Nov 2010 |
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This week Year 5 proved to be percussionary prodigies when Saul visited Morgans for a musical instrument junk modelling workshop. The classes were riveted by riveting, bonded well whilst bonding and saw wonder through sawing, whilst designing and constructing a range of different and imaginative instruments. After the mornings construction the children practised their percussionary skills under Saul's direction and generally displayed a good musical ear and senses of rhythm. |
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Harvest Festivities Oct 2010 |
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Year 3 certainly had it in for sprouts with their Vegetable Song, Nursery, Reception and Years 1 and 2 gave a rousing rendition of Cauliflowers Fluffy, Year 4 obviously knew the importance of Five-a-Day, Year 5 amused all with their Farmer Jack play, Year 6 provoked a good deal of thought about Fair Trade and The Harvest of Love was sung wonderfully by our choir. This was once again a fitting balance of celebration, humour and thanks before Laura and Carolyn from the Herts Young Homeless Group explained a little about their organisation and how it helps young people in the area. They also thanked all of the children for their harvest contributions towards this project and explained the difference these items would make. Thank you also from us and well done to Miss Gilham for once more orchestrating such an entertaining and successful Harvest celebration. |
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Music at Morgans May 2010 |
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Music throughout Morgans is always good, though is particularly strong at the moment with 45 of our children currently singing in our choir with Miss Gilham, many attending Year 2 and 3 singing club with Mrs Hanham and Years 2 and 4 benefitting from our recorder and clarinet program, which all of our children currently in these year groups experience at no cost to you. Add in to this the Numu website, which features a good number of performances and compositions by our children (and is well worth a browse and listen!)
http://www.numu.org.uk/station.asp?lngSiteID=4079
and the school's commitment to obtaining a Silver 'Sing Up' accreditation in the near future and things sound great at Morgans. |
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Numu Website Jan 2010 |
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We are proud that Morgans is a very musical school. From compositions in class, to one-to-one music lessons, to choir, recorder club and simply having the chance to listen to and appreciate music from a variety of times and cultures, our children are fast becoming accomplished musicians!
I am very pleased to say there is now a way for you to hear and show off your children's masterpieces at home. Whether it is playing an instrument is assembly or in a lesson, a song in class or concert or a composition with percussion instruments, you can now download and listen to their creations.
We are part of a fantastic website called numu. It is a secure site that is designed for children to upload their music so it can be heard by other people. There is restricted access to anyone who does not have their own username so no details can be seen and no comments (shout backs) can be made by people who have not been registered by their school. Currently all our year 6s have their own page that I have set up and they already have a few tracks uploaded. I am hoping to repeat this with year 5 at some point during the year.
However, we also have a general school page where I can upload anyone's music. After purchasing two sparkly new MP3 recorders with the proceeds taken from selling our school CDs last year, it has become much easier to record the children's work than it was when I had to drag my laptop around with me! Whenever your child has a track added to the site, I will tell them so you can have fun listening at home.
Instructions for downloading tracks -
• Go to the website - www.numu.org.uk
• Click on the tab at the top that says labels
• Scroll down and click on MorgansSchool
• You will then be on our page and see our track list
• To find your child's work quicker, type their first and surname into the Artist/Title search box. Alternatively, if it is a group piece, type the name of the group e.g. choir, year 4, recorder club etc
• When you have found the track, click on play and enjoy!
• http://www.numu.org.uk/station.asp?lngSiteID=4079 should also work.
Year 6 children should also find the track on their own page.
I will endeavour to send home a slip every time your child has something uploaded so you know to look. Please see me if you have any problems finding your child's work.
I hope you find this project as exciting as I do!
Miss Gilham |
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