Music

We provide a wide range of musical experiences for our children at Uplands LEAD Academy. They take part in regular singing assemblies and cover topics such as Pulse, Rhythm, Pitch, Voice, Technology and 20th Century Music in Music lessons. We also provide a number of other opportunities:

Year 3 singing project

Rock Steady

A huge well done to our rock bands, Dragon Leader, The Brain Busters and Lightening Rockers for a fantastic Rock Steady concert! We all enjoyed watching you and cheering you on in your performances. We can’t wait to see you again in the summer term.

Choral expert visits Uplands

On Wednesday, we had a visit from a choral expert who came into school to work with the children in their singing assembly. Years 3 and 4 learnt a song called ‘The Swamp’ with actions and Years 5 and 6 sang a song entitled ‘The Wind’. The children practiced including a ‘chrescendo’ and changing the volume of their voices between ‘forte’ and ‘piano’.

Our school choir visited the Curve theatre along with children from other schools to take part in the ‘Oh Happy Days’ gospel event. They performed three songs ‘Joy’, ‘Movin’ On’ and ‘All Around’.

‘It was amazing!’ Hrikkrish Biswas 4Hazel
‘So exciting!’ Daniel Sors 4Hazel
‘Singing makes me feel happy’ Riana Ene 4Hazel

De Montfort Hall

Our choir children had a wonderful time on Wednesday evening performing at the De Montfort Hall to a full audience! They all learnt the words to the songs off by heart and sounded fantastic!

Music Events

A full week of music experiences at Uplands Junior L.E.A.D. Academy this week.

On Tuesday each year group sang some Christmas songs at the Highfields Centre, it was so nice to have the whole school come together. On Wednesday the choir sang at The Caribbean Centre and on Thursday we had our end of term performance by our Rock Steady bands, supported by the choir. A very big thank you to our parents who came to support their children and to join in the singing. Our thanks also goes to Ash from Rock Steady, Chris from Leicestershire Music who teaches ukulele and Rebecca who leads the choir. If your child is interested in joining the choir or Rock Steady please contact Mrs Grimshaw through the school office or refer to the leaflet about Rock Steady later in the newsletter.

Let’s Make Music Festival

Drumba

Y6 enjoyed Drumba today – a mixture of drumming and Zumba. They had a wonderful time. Parents
joined us for a workshop alongside their child at the end of the day.
Parental feedback “ An excellent activity that my son and I enjoyed, highly recommended.” “It was
fantastic, I had great fun.”