Music teaching

On Thursday 30th October 2019 during half term our Director of Music went to Bishop Ridley Primary School and taught 60 Year 5 pupils how to play the ukulele and sing along. The school has very little music on the curriculum and they have absolutely no music classroom and no music instruments/facilities at all.

She took in all of our ukuleles, designed a workshop for them and taught two sessions with 30 pupils per class for the afternoon. The children all learnt at least 5 chords and they learnt to play 2 songs and each class did a performance to the headmaster and sang along at the end of the workshop.

A hugely successful afternoon, the school and staff were lovely and the children absolutely loved playing the instruments.

Aims

The school has very little music on the curriculum and they have absolutely no music classroom and no music instruments/facilities at all.

The children all learnt at least 5 chords and they learnt to play 2 songs and each class did a performance to the headmaster and sang along at the end of the workshop.

Background

The Director of Music at Lingfield College had a contact at Bishop Ridley School 

Resources

Director of Music using her own time to do this.

Our instruments were used.

It was a one-off session which lasted for the whole day. 

Impact

A hugely successful afternoon, the school and staff were lovely and the children absolutely loved playing the instruments.

Pupil Involvement

No students from Lingfield Collge

Frequency

This was a one-off event