Music

...ulum is based on the Charanga Musical School scheme of work which facilitates and encourages an expl......iels. Curriculum Implementation Music is a universal language that embodies one of the highest forms...... the Musical canon. Through the Musical School programme, the children develop their understanding, ...

Spanish

At Shoreditch Park Primary School we believe that learning a Modern Foreign Language contributes to children’s learning and development by increasing critical thinking skills, creativity and flexibility of mind in young children. Pupils at Shoreditch Park start learning Spanish in EYFS and continue...

PTA

At Shoreditch Park we are passionate about working together to ensure our children and wider school community get the best possible experiences in life. The PTA aims to work together to: Run events where people can get to know each other and enjoy themselves Raise funds for resources that the...

Autism Resource Provision

Welcome to Shoreditch Park School's Autism Resource Provision (ARP). This page provides information about the curriculum and the procedures in place for the ARP. Pictures and information for parents of current pupils can be found by visiting the Seuss or Sharratt class pages. Meet the Team Rochelle...

English

At Shoreditch Park Primary school we teach English writing through ‘The Power of Reading’ which focuses on a range of high-quality texts to allow teachers to plan creative cycles of English with a focus upon a range of outcomes. Through the English curriculum, we help pupils develop the skills and...

ASPIRE Mornings

At Shoreditch Park we believe that in order to expect positive and respectful communication, we need to model and provide opportunities for it within our school day. Our mornings are free flow and children independently come into their classes between 8.45 - 9.00. On their transition up the stairs...

Year 2 Meet Trumpet Player Darren

Year 2 were so lucky this week because a fantastic trumpet player called Darren came into to play his instrument to us! He was very talented and not only that, he left some of us have a go on his own home-made trumpet. He showed us how he has to blow down the tube to get different noises and we...

Year 2 - The Rhythm of Life

Year 2 performed a Michael Rosen poem called 'The Rhythm of Life' and used instruments to hear and feel the rhythm!

Year 3 - King Smith: Three Little Birds by Bob Marley

...th started their new topic in Music by learning Three Little Birds by Bob Marley. They have started to learn the lyrics and some basic notes on the glockenspiel to go along with the tune. Here is a quick video to show their first ever performance as King Smith band!...

Year 5 - Design and Technology: Digital Media Workshop

Year 5 participated in a Creative Curriculum project in partnership with Open City and British Land. The Creative Curriculum project entailed children working with artist Reza Ben Gajra and musician Luke Crookes to create a themed animation based on: ‘Our Local Area’ as part of the Year...

Year 3 - Learning to Read Music

This week Year 3 began learning to read music! See if you can use these music notes to workout which notes are played in the song!

Year 3 - The Musicans' Company

...sit from Ann and Joe from The Musicans' Company. Joe taught the children about his instrument, the tuba, and played lots of songs for us. Some of the songs we recognised and some were new to us! You can find out more on their website; www.wcom.org.uk ....

Year 3 - Visit Hackney Musuem

Pupils have been studying about their local area in Topic. To support their learning, pupils visited a workshop about suit case diaries in the Hackney Museum. Pupils discovered how Hackney has changed through the stories and suitcases of people who travelled to Hackney from all over the world and...

Year 4 - Launch Week

Year 4 had a creative time this week creating original music with ingenious the instruments of 'The Rig', an assortment of musical instruments made from everything and anything, from tin baths to welly boots! It was great fun and very inspirational We may even try making our own!

Year 2 - Refugee Week: 20 Simple Acts

...created by refugees with 'Music in Detention'. This song is called home. It is all about the things that the children were missing about home....

Year 4 - Show and Tell

This week Year 4 began their Friday Show and Tell sessions where pupils brought in objects special to them to share with the class. We had live music, books on the human body and poetry! We are all looking forward to seeing what wonderful objects would be brought in next week

Year 4 Drumming

Year 4 have been learning to play the drums. First we practiced using our bodies and then we used real drum sticks. We pretended the chair was different parts of a drum kit; the snare drum, hi-hat and bass drum. We were able to keep the pulse in a group!

Year 4 Meet Elizabeth Rossiter

This week year 4 were extremely lucky to have a visit from Elizabeth Rossiter. Pianist Elizabeth Rossiter enjoys a busy career, primarily as a song accompanist, and has given concerts in all the major recital venues in this country. She has also been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, BBC2, Channel 4 and...

Year 5 Music - Singing

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Year 5 - Music Workshop with Joss Edwards

Year 5 enjoyed a music workshop with Joss Edwards, who is a sound designer and composer. We watched how he makes different sounds and even got the chance to record our own drum beat using instruments

Year 5 Music - Clapping Rhythm Game

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Year 2 - Hackney Schools Music and Dance Festival

...cipate in the Hackney Schools Music and Dance Festival. We prepared by learning lots of songs from around the world. On the day we sang these songs with other schools from Hackney. We sang in the the round, with call and response and also with actions and dance moves! It was such a fun day and there...

Year 5 visit to Hackney New School

Year 5 went to visit Hackney New School for a workshop on how to use Garageband. We created our own dance tracks

Year 6 - Shakespeare Rocks Preview

Next week (Thursday 29th) year 6 will perform Shakespeare Rocks - a musical based on the life of William Shakespeare. Here's a sneak peak of the song Montagues and Capulets

Year 2 - Opera Workshop

This week Year 2 were lucky enough to have a music workshop all about opera! We have looked at many genres of music this year, but opera was new to many of the children. The children listened to a performance by a professional opera singer called Katie. Then they took part in a vocal warm up. They...

Violin Concert - February 2019

Year 5 - Musicians Outreach Workshop

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Year 1 - Voces8 Foundation Vocal Training

Year 1 children at Shoreditch Park Primary received vocal training via the Voces8 Foundation

Year 3 - Apollo5 Workshop

Year 3 had the great opportunity of taking part in a workshop delivered by members of Apollo5. This workshop has helped the children gain confidence in their singing voices. The children start their afternoons with 10 minutes of singing. The children are excited to sing and enjoy it so much. It is...

Groove Into the Woods: A Video Storybook

For children aged 3-7 Welcome to the deep, dark woods - full of all sorts of magic and creatures up to no good... Join three friends on their quest to save their grownups from some horrible trolls. Singing, dancing and adventure await you on this mysterious journey. Designed for children aged 3 - 7...

Year 5 - Music Mission Company Enrichment

...ite Music enrichment with the Music Mission company. The day consisted of exciting teacher performances and a workshop. It was a fun and educational way for children to learn about drumming from many cultures. With so many children inspired - we look forward to offering drumming tuition at our schoo...

Seuss Class - Black History Month

... carnival by dancing to Socca Music and making carnival masks. Children in Seuss class love crafts and are very creative. Their masks are now proudly displayed in the classroom. During our weekly 'food detectives' cooking class, children visited some of the local greengrocers and bought f...

Nursery - Bonfire Night 2025

We had a wonderful time this term celebrating Bonfire Night with a variety of fun, creative and fine motor activities. We made fireworks using tissue paper and cardboard tubes, which we then used to dance along to different types of music. As the tempo increased, we jumped up like fireworks and...

Year 2 - Launch Week

Year 2 had the best time at The Rig playing the musical instruments! It was so interesting to make music with objects that we would not usually use as instruments, the sounds we made were really different!

Year 1 - Grey Class Play The Glockenspiel

Grey class have been learning how to play the glockenspiel. We take it in turns and have been learning 1 note at a time. This week it has been C. We are playing along to a song we learnt earlier in the year called 'Hey You'

Year 2 - Composing on The Glockenspiels

Year 2 have been working hard on using the glockenspiels to play along to music and compose some of our own pieces. Watch us do some copying of different notes on our instruments!

KS2 Music Notation

This week KS2 have been learning about music notation. We focused on crotchets (fly) and quavers (spider). Have a look at the websites below to find out more and test your knowledge. Rhythm Trainer Rhythm and metre Can you clap this rhythm?

'Future sounds of Hackney' - Hackney Today

All students in a Year 4 primary school class are now able to play a musical instrument thanks to a new programme being piloted in their school. Watch Year 4 play the songs mentioned in this article

ASPIRE Tea Party - Pride

This week we held the Aspire Tea party for the children who were recognised last half term for their progress in 'Pride'. They had taken pride in their learning, their culture and their class mates. They had also shown pride in developing their oracy skills. At the Tea Party we had some...

Choir at Christmas

This week the KS2 choir were very busy! First they sang Christmas carols at Old Street tube station to help raise money for the charity Health Poverty Action . A whopping £616.76 was raised by Shoreditch Park Choir and the other choirs that sang at Old Street tube station. On Tuesday the...

Deacon Class - Music

This term we have been learning all about the beat and rhythm of music. We have listened and appraised different types of songs, warmed up our vocal chords through vocal games and even learnt the lyrics to a song called 'Round and Round'. As Deacon class were so confident in singing this...

Genre of the Half Term

...nre of the half term is: Folk Music...

Genre of the Term

Each term we pick a different genre of music to celebrate. Autumn: R&B Summer: Funk Spring: Reggae

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Letter Writing By Hannah, Grey Class The Little Cottage Goldilocks Gardens in the Forest Dear Goldilocks, Thank you for your letter. I really wanted to eat your yummy porridge. It made me sad. Secondly thank you for telling your Dad to fix my chair. I love that chair. Finally I would love to come...

Guitar Club - Can You Guess the Song?

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Hispanic Day 2017

On Wednesday 5th July, Shoreditch Park Primary School celebrated Hispanic Day. We learnt about the Hispanic culture, traditions and food and we practised using and applying our Spanish language skills. In the morning we had the opportunity to watch a Mexican Mariachi Band! We learnt more about the...

KS1 - London Philharmonic Orchestra

This week KS1 went on a trip altogether to the Royal Festival Hall on Southbank to watch an amazing concert! We took the 76 bus there and back and got to see lots of London landmarks on the way, such as the London Eye . The London Philharmonic Orchestra played songs from a book called Giddy Goat....

KS1 - London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican

On Monday 20th March all of KS1 went to the Barbican Centre for an amazing music concert! We travelled from school on the 76 bus and had a packed lunch at the Barbican. We watched the fantastic London Symphony Orchestra who played along to a story called 'Stan and Mabel'. We had learnt the...

Make Music 2 Make Music

...are the stars of the new Make Music 2 Make Music challenge video! The Make Music 2 Make Music challe...... of the new Make Music 2 Make Music challenge video! The Make Music 2 Make Music challenge is a camp......sic challenge video! The Make Music 2 Make Music challenge is a campaign running in 2016, inviting p...

Year 1 - Performance with Apollo 5 at the Gresham Centre

Year 1 amazed us all in their performance with vocal group Apollo 5 on Thursday! The children have been working hard on a number of songs over the past year and had the opportunity to showcase their talents at the beautiful Gresham centre

Morpurgo - 'Shake It Off'

This week Morpurgo had a fantastic time playing along to 'Shake It Off', have a watch!

Morpurgo's Musical Futures Assembly

...al guests who came to see the Musical Futures Pilot project. Morpurgo Class gave a class assembly to show what they had learned so far this year....

Music in Autumn 2016

...classes have been learning in Music in Autumn 2016. Here Almond Class are learning to listen to a tune played on the glockenspiels and then copy it back as accurately as they can! Here is Dahl Class having their first go at composing within their newly formed bands!? Can you guess which so...

Music in Year 5

In music we have been learning about pulse, instruments and types of music through listening and singing 'Livin on a prayer'

Musical Futures VIP Day

...hey will be coming to see the Musical Futures Pilot project (which has been taught by Morpurgo, Almo...... You can find out more on the Musical Futures website ....

Suzuki Violin

...ends and students from Suzuki Music. They treated us to a brilliant performance, some of the children who played the violin for us were as young as 5! They taught us all about The Suzuki method and explained the kind of things we'd learn in lessons if we decided we'd like to take up violin l...

The Choir Sings 'El Condor Pasa'

This week choir enjoyed singing El Condor Pasa by Simon and Garfunkel which the whole school have also been learning in singing assembly! This is our first attempt and we can't wait to practise it again next week!

The Hackney Schools Music Festival

...orming at The Hackney Schools Music Festival!!! They've been rehearsing a range of songs of different genres from all over the world for months! Have a listen!...

The Six Star Wonders

This week some children in Year 5 started their very own band... The Six Star Wonders!!! They had their first rehearsal on Friday and in that time managed to pull together their very own version of the song Riptide by Vance Joy, Keep your eyes open for more music from The Six Star Wonders, the new...

Thematic Approach

... Curriculum Map 2015 Plan 1 Musical Progression KS1 Spanish Yearly Overview 2015...

Violin and Guitar Concert

On Friday 16th March, Shoreditch Park Primary had a music concert to celebrate children who partake in weekly violin and guitar tuition. The youngest musicians to perform were five year old children! It was a fantastic occasion; parents, the PTA and the whole school were memorised by all the...

Year 1 - Dimensions of Music

Year 1 have been learning about the dimensions of music in their lessons. In these clips the children are exploring pulse and tempo. They are using their heads to keep a steady beat to the music to show their understanding of pulse. They also used body movements to show fast and slow tempo in...

Year 1 - Grey Class Music

This week Grey class have been practicing the glockenspiel to a song called 'Hey you'. We played the note 'C' and had to concentrate really hard to keep in time with the music

Nursery - Nutcracker Dance Workshop

Our Nursery children were transported into a magical winter world during an enchanting Nutcracker dance workshop! The children listened beautifully to the music, learned simple choreography, and used expressive movements to bring the characters to life. From tiptoeing like sugar plum fairies to...