Music

2020 – 21

JANUARY 2021 – TERM 2

Happy New Year to all families from Barney here in the Music Department at Betty Layward. Some updates for you follow below.

Instrumental lessons – I appreciate many of you with children learning instruments at school keen to find out what happening with lessons under the most recent circumstances. Trust that I along with Hackney Music Services have been working hard in the background adapting to a constantly changing playing field of scenario.

Firstly, lessons WILL be happening as they did for previous lockdowns. We have had to modify the process to conform to risk assessments, child-protection policies and other areas whilst working to do our best to keep the process as straightforward for you as possible.

In the first full week of term 2 (from 11th January 2021) you will receive an email with a lesson prepared by the instrumental tutor for your child. You will get another email with a form attached for you to complete online, save and return to me and this will then activate the process so that online lessons can happen in real time from the 2nd full week of this term starting from 18th January 2021.

We are glad to be able to continue to provide this service under these challenging circumstances working in collaboration with Hackney Music Service.

Please do also scroll down this page for earlier updates that may still be of interest and links to our Christmas Music Video of the 12 Days of Christmas involving EVERY class in school. Should you be looking for online music (and other) resources to share with your children, my latest compiled resource sheet as endorsed and recommended by Hackney Music Service and now with 100+ links (!) is at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1etnN-FRuJh5Eha_OoW5O5EUx78ILWnDWvfLexBe1bE8/edit?usp=sharing

Christmas Video 2020

Dear parents, family and friends. In lieu of being able to run our normal traditional Christmas Concert we have created a music video featuring all 15 classes in school! 🙂 May you all have a wonderful Christmas and Happy New Year. Here below is our rocking version of The 12 Days of Christmas for 2020!

https://youtu.be/GRAnJ-Igqws

October 2020

Betty Layward Music Department is delighted to say we are able to re-introduce instrumental lessons in school as of 12th October 2020. Once we have stabilised pupils who were learning previously we will look to see if capacity and conditions allow us to open up the opportunity to other interested pupils and update here and via email/newsletter.

We provide tuition in Violin, Flute, Clarinet, Saxophone, Trumpet, Trombone and Guitar for Years 2 – 6.
Lessons are taught for 30 minutes per week in groups of no larger than 6. Under new conditions lessons are kept to year groups with no mixing of these.
There are 10 lessons per term.
Lessons are £40 per term.
Instrument hire where available is £10 per term.

(the PPG rate for children in receipt of free school meals is half price, so music lessons – £20 for the term, Instrument Hire £5 per term)

To check if their availability in your preferred instrument/s please email expressions of interest to admin@bettylayward.hackney.sch.uk.  Lessons can be secured subject to confirmation of availability by payment now using our online payment system available here – https://www.scopay.com/login.html

Once paid, do please include the following details in an email to admin@bettylayward.hackney.sch.uk:

• Full name of child
• Year and class of child
• Instrument they wish to learn
• Whether paid for hire of an instrument for the term

Music also remains a strong part of the school curriculum with every child from Nursery to Year 6 receiving weekly music lessons. This year’s curriculum is centred around the excellent BBC 10 pieces subjects along with composition and exploration work using iPads and mini keyboards.

Updates:

Dan Nash, one of our 2 guitar teachers has uploaded some resources for guitar pupils. Click here to access – GUITAR

I (Barney) posted a host of online music (and many other) resources endorsed and promoted by Hackney Music Service to help and support families from back in March 2020. These can be accessed here – Barney’s Resource Page. 

2019 – 2020

Betty Layward Music Department welcomes back all our pupils. We have a huge number of pupils learning instruments with the offer widened to include brass (trumpet and trombone) from after the October half-term  and  instruments available for hire also. (Information on the process for applying for instrumental tuition can be found if one scrolls down to further on this page). The first half of this term includes study of some of the BBC 10 Pieces including Earth by Hans Zimmer, No Place Like by Kerry Andrew and A Bao a Qu by Mason Bates and working in groups to produce original compositions based upon this.  Children also continue with singing in Monday assemblies and music appreciation and performing in my Tuesday Music assemblies.

Upcoming musical treats include our annual Christmas concert, New Year Instrumental Recital, Easter Variety Show and of course BLastonbury!

BLastonbury 2019

As always a huge success this year with the theme of “Nostalgic Classics” for the parents!

Variety Show 2019

Christmas 2018/19

Another wonderful concert with all classes singing and instrumental interludes at St Mary’s, Stoke Newington Church Street.

Instrumental Lessons 2019

We provide tuition in Violin, Flute, Clarinet, Saxophone and Guitar for Years 2 – 6.

Tutors are highly accomplished professionals.

Lessons are taught for 30 minutes per week in groups of no larger than 5.

There are 10 lessons per term.

Lessons are £40 per term.

Instrument hire where available is £10 per term.

(the PPG rate for children in receipt of free school meals is half price, so music lessons – £20 for the term, Instrument Hire £5 per term)

Lessons can be secured subject to availability (do please check this first) by payment now using our online payment system available here – https://www.scopay.com/login.html

Once paid, do please include the following details in an email to admin@bettylayward.hackney.sch.uk:

• Full name of child
• Year and class of child
• Instrument they wish to learn
• Whether they also wish to hire an instrument for the term
• Payment secures place subject to availability.

We also provide tuition in Piano (keyboards) and Drums as after-school clubs so you can apply for these via that route again using the online system as above.

Thank-you.

Barnaby Green

Music Teacher and Coordinator

Betty Layward Primary School