Thank you very much to Audrey Blake and our friends at Scottish Opera for a lovely opportunity for nine of our classes (P5, P6 and P7) to visit the Festival Theatre on Wednesday 4th November for Carmen Unwrapped. Fantastic orchestra, beautiful singing and wonderful story telling, with a fascinating behind the scenes exploration of all that is involved in staging an opera production. Bravo!
Our Music Improvement Group identified a need to acquire more musical instruments. Thank you to Shaun and Gilbert from South African Drum Tribe for offering us the chance to purchase heavily discounted djembe drums, handcrafted in Ghana. We now have fifteen drums for use in school and aim to purchase more new instruments this year.
Our friends at Scottish Opera have very kindly offered P5-P7 pupils a wonderful opportunity to attend their ‘Carmen Unwrapped’ session on Wednesday 4th November. The children will walk to the Festival Theatre so should wear comfortable shoes and a waterproof jacket. The session
is free and runs from 1pm to 2pm. P5-P7 pupils will be able to have an
early lunch at 11.45am and will leave school at 12.30pm, returning at
2.30pm.
Carmen Unwrapped involves singers, backstage crew and The
Orchestra of Scottish Opera. The children will hear highlights from the
music and be introduced to the principal characters from the opera, the
plot and some key scenes. They will also find out about the props,
costumes, lighting and direction, as well as some of the theatrical
secrets behind the production.
Many children might already recognise 'Habanera' from the Pixar film 'Up'.
Last session, our Music Improvement Group researched online resources which could be used progressively throughout school as part of an updated programme for Music. We are delighted to have been given an opportunity to pilot online resources from ABC Creative Music until the end of the year.
Thank you to Tom Bancroft at ABC Creative Music for providing a fun CPD session for staff on Friday 30th October 2015. Tom has also offered free workshops for pupils to help us trial the resources in class.
