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Solihull Competitive Music Festival 3 The Solihull Competitive Music Festival is held annually at the beginning of the Autumn Term. This year’s event included many classes for different instruments including piano, violin, woodwind, brass and voice.


Aloysius Lip from Year 5 enthusiastically participated in the events with many children from primary and secondary schools as well as adult competitors.


Aloysius became the winner for Violin Solo of Grade 6 & 7 class, for which he achieved a Distinction, playing a Grade 7 piece named ‘Presto (3rd Movement)’ by Haydn. He performed again in the enthralling grand concert for class winners on the same evening to celebrate the end of the annual Solihull Music Festival.


Science


A Load of Musical Old Junk 13 Year 5 children took part in a Junk Music workshop as part of the Sound and Hearing Science curriculum in the summer term. It was conducted by Michael Freeman, a Member of the British Academy, musician and acclaimed composer. He used his skills to teach the children about how vibrations can be managed, allowing them to produce music from a range of household items.


The children had great fun playing Michael’s junk instruments – storage drums, drain pipes, yogurt pots, large cardboard rolls, flip-flops, gas pipes, drumsticks made from cork etc. They then turned their hand to making their own instruments from the junk they brought from home.


Michael then conducted them in a range of musical compositions from reggae to samba and good ol’ rock and roll. Their rendition of ‘We Will Rock You’ by Queen reverberated through the school and had the whole of Year 2 singing on their way back from PE. Year 1, who coincidently were also studying Sound in Science, went in to watch part of the show and all thoroughly enjoyed themselves.


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