Music
Welcome to the music page of our website!
At Tranmere Park we are immensely proud of our music provision.
We are Music Champion School which we were awarded by Artforms Leeds in recognition of the wide range of musical opportunities that we offer the children, both in classroom lessons and through our peripatetic offer and other opportunities.
As well as the singing, playing, performing, improvising, composing, listening and appraising that takes place in our classroom lessons, there are many more musical opportunities for our children to be involved in. Just one example of these is our entry into the Leeds Schools’ Singing Competition in which we were runners up the first time we entered. We won a voucher from Out if the Ark music which we spent on some lovely new singing resources. (You may have heard your children singing some of the French songs that we bought – they’re extremely catchy!)
We offer a wide range of peripatetic music lessons for children from Year 3 upwards which we try to run at lunchtimes to avoid the children having to miss classroom time. However, some instruments are so popular that we have to book the teachers for a bit longer!
Fun in EYFS
EYFS had fun adding sounds to the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. They made a pop with claves when the caterpillar burst out of the egg and some lovely eating sounds with shakers, which got longer and longer as he ate more and more, along some fantastic body percussion eating sounds. They ended with a lovely celebratory chime bar sound when the caterpillar turned into a beautiful butterfly.
Fun in EYFS
Performance Assembly
Our performance assembly was a brilliant opportunity for some of our talented musicians to perform for school, parents and carers and Tamsyn Durrant from Art forms Leeds, who was particularly impressed. Thank you to Daniel and Thomas on keyboard, Aiden and Oscar on guitar, Felix and Lexie on violin, Bea on flute, Ella on the trumpet, Dara on piano and Lexi, Lily and Dougie, our singers.
Performance Assembly
Drum Workshop
Year 4 took part in a djembe drum workshop with the amazing Dom from Artforms Leeds. School was full of the sound of djembe beats!
We had a visit from the amazing local band The Dunwells. They did a songwriting workshop with Year 5, who performed the song they had written for us at the end of the day. This was followed by our very own (short) Dunwells gig! Everyone loved it. It was a fantastic way to end our half term and Platinum Jubilee celebrations.
The Dunwells
We are going to be the stars of our own school CD!
We have spent the last few weeks rehearsing a selection of pop, call and response and French songs, to name but a few and then spent a day in the recording studio (the school hall) recording songs with Sam from ‘We are Heard’, who said that we were one of the best schools that he has worked with. We started with a whole school song, then each class was recorded, followed by Treblemakers (our singing group) and finally the staff.
Any money that we make from the sales of the CD will be spent on new music resources or experiences for our children. Zoe won the competition to design a cover for the CD.
Treblemakers
Our singing group, Treblemakers meets once a week. They are a fantastic bunch of enthusiastic singers! We squeeze our rehearsals in on Thursday mornings in Bluebirds classroom. In the past, Treblemakers have performed at our Summer and Christmas fairs and at Guiseley Theatre and Yeadon Town Hall. At Christmas we enjoyed learning Electric Dreams by The Human League, a version of which featured in a Christmas tv ad for a famous department store. We have recorded ‘Let’s Go Fly a Kite’ for our school CD and are looking forward to some of the group performing at the Aireborough Learning Partnership Schools festival.
