Music at Kelvedon St Mary's

  Music plays a very important role in school life at Kelvedon St. Mary's. This allows us to provide children with opportunities to use a variety of instruments, ranging from recorders, trumpets and guitars to a variety of percussion instruments.
By following the curriculum for music and the QCA guidelines, Kelvedon St. Mary's is ensuring a good standard of music teaching throughout both of the key stages.
Music is introduced to the children as early as the reception class, giving even the youngest children an opportunity to have fun in a musical environment.

In year two, all children are taught the recorder as part of the curriculum to give them the experience of playing an instrument.

As the children progress through the school, opportunities for extra curricular music present themselves. These include recorder clubs, a school choir and an orchestra. Previously we have had 2 steel pan groups.

The school choir is very popular in the local community. Not only do they take part in the school events, such as our music evening, they also visit the local convalescent homes and are often out carol singing at Christmas.

The wide variety of music on offer at St. Mary's gives children not only musical skill but also the confidence to perform in front of an audience.

Peripatetic music in the school is also of a high standard and prepares the children for the school orchestra.

The orchestra at Kelvedon St. Mary's has a varied repertoire, including the main theme from Star Wars and the Great Escape. They have often performed at the Young Musicians Prom at the Charter Hall Colchester and the Kelvedon Village Festival.

Our school choir is proving to be very popular. An amazing number of children joined Miss Sewell at the first rehearsal and really raised the roof. We look forward to their  performances this year.

Our choir rehearse every Monday after school and sing at most of the end of term services. They play a big part in the annual Spring Music Concert.

They are pictured here singing at the Carol Service at St Mary's Church in December 2007.

Lots of the children in KS2 have guitar lessons, either individually or in groups. A large group of them performed together at the Summer Music Concert in May 2008