This week saw the children of Upper IV working in their music lesson with the Fizzbooks and sequencing  software (Sony Acid Xpress).  This was the first time the children had used the software but they were able to produce some very creative compositions!

The Gleddings School hosted a special performance given by the young musicians of The Experimental Primary School of Beijing Normal University. The free performance was held at Square Chapel Centre for the Arts on 10^th November. Children from local schools were invited to attend this performance of high quality along with the children from The Gleddings.

There are 25 children in the group and they have been preparing their debut UK repertoire for some time. This is their first trip to the UK, though they have been playing to audiences in China and overseas (e.g. USA, Japan, Singapore etc) for many years.

The performance began with rousing marching music from the wind ensemble. They delighted the audience and set the mood for the rest of the hour. The performance continued with a programme of traditional Chinese music and Western music on various instruments such as trumpet, saxophone and piano as well as Tai Chi performance and diabolo (Chinese yo-yo) performance.

The audience had a wonderful afternoon as the venue was filled with deafening applause for these talented children from Beijing.

Here are some photographs which show just how wonderful the performance was!

Our annual Spring Term Concert moved venue this year to the Square Chapel in Halifax.

 The concert opened with our MIV Samba Band. Throughout the year, all upper school children have taken part in Samba workshops with our percussion specialist.

 Other groups performing during the evening included: String Ensemble, Flute Ensemble, Guitar Group and Rock Band.

 A number of children played solo on brass, string and percussion instruments, as well as on the piano.

 We were also entertained by some superb vocalists.

 The concert concluded with our Family Choir singing the beautiful ‘Halleluia’ and our fabulous Gleddings Brass Band playing what has become one of our favourites, ‘A Swingin Safari’.

Due to upload limitations I have had to split the concert into 5 parts. Please click on the links below to view it.

Square Chapel part 1    Square Chapel part 2    

Square Chapel part 3   Square Chapel part 4

Square Chapel part 5

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Please click the links below to view our videos.

These two talented children gave brilliant performances in our celebration assembly.

Musician 1

Musician 2

The Lower School Choir sang an uplifting ‘ Wake Up! Wake Up!’ in our celebration assembly this week.

Lower school choir

These videos were recorded by Matthew Priestley in UIV. Well done Matthew!

Mr Wood and his pupils performed for their families in a superb concert this week. Whilst some of the children had a few nervous moments, Mr Wood had no trouble ‘blowing his own cornet!’

This talented little boy played for the first time in Celebration assembly. He was very excited and note perfect. What a brilliant performance!

We had to hold our annual Spring Term Music Concert over two evenings this year due to the sheer number of excellent musicians and singers.  All the performers enjoyed performing for their families and they all did a fantastic job!

The Gleddings School children played musically on their instruments and sang tunefully in our annual Christmas performances. Here are some of the pictures:

We held our first Spring Term Music Concert for parents and friends on March 24th 2009. 34 children took part in the concert and everyone had a wonderful time.

The following pictures show some of the children performing in the concert.