Welcome to the
Year 4 Watercycle Singing Project page!!
September - December 2014
This was a project Westdene School was chosen to take part in with 3 other Brighton Primary schools, an adult choir (Brighton Early Music Festival Community Choir) and a professional orchestra (The Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment- OAE) . Our year 4 children were lucky enough to be involved & 17 of them learnt to play the bassoon as part of the project!!
The children worked in their music lessons to learn 3 songs (all based around a theme of water) which they performed in their end of project concert in early December 2014. We were also very fortunate to receive 2 visits in school from members of OAE who led workshops with the children during the autumn term.
Children who already had instrumental lessons on the violin, guitar, recorder or mandolin also had the opportunity to perform with the OAE in our concert on Friday 5th December 2014!!
Year 4 - click here to listen to "Watercycle" & enjoy singing along!
Here are some photos of our fabulous bassonists during the first few weeks of their lessons!!
Some of them were even featured in The Argus newspaper!! Click on the link below to view the article:
http://www.theargus.co.uk/archive/2014/10/17/11542438.Pupils_learning_to_reed_it_right/?ref=arc
Click the thumbnails below to see us rehearsing our "Watercycle" song
during our music lessons in October 2014.........
Here are some photos of us enjoying workshops with members of OAE during November 2014:
.........and finally the days arrived for us to perform at St. John's Church, Brighton - Friday 5th December 2014 with 500 other children!!
.........and Saturday 6th December 2014 with Brighton Early Music Festival Community Choir & the Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment!!
Congratulations Year 4 - you worked SO
hard for this project, well done!!!