Key Stage 1 Harmonica

Time to enroll for Spring Term 2026!

Richard

Calling all Harmonica Parents and Carers!

We very much hope you can join us for our 10 week music making programme this Spring Term. Please let us know your plans right away! Details on how to sign up can be found in our recent emails (check spam and junk folders if you can’t spot these in your inbox) and in the How to Pay menu here on our website. We also hope to organise more fun Harmonica Blow Outs at school and in public through the year.

Our Teaching Plan This Term
Our Spring theme is musical diversity. We will be celebrating different cultures and languages represented by our group members, and study pieces will be drawn from the popular World Songs section of our key stage music libraries. You’ll find these in the Learning menu at the top of our homepage. We’ll also be exploring composition, song writing and improvisation.

Structure and Texture
To complement our composition theme, we will be looking more closely at musical structure and texture and how songs are put together. New knowledge and vocabulary will include intro, outro, chorus, verse, bridge, middle 8, solo, ostinato, harmony, chords, round and mash ups.

We look forward to seeing you soon – and please tell all your friends!
We wish you all a Happy New Year 2026 and please help us pass the news about Harp Academy. It’s a fun and accessible way to learn music, which children can enjoy with their best friends. Why not recommend a free taster session to some of your harmonaut’s best friends. A free starter harmonica in their colour of choice is also included!

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

Richard

Thank you to everyone involved in making Harp Academy happen in 2025! Parents and carers at home, staff colleagues at School, and of course all our wonderful harmonauts who turn up each week to make amazing music.

In a fitting end to the year, this week saw forty of our harmonauts and their grown ups gather at the Royal Alex Children’s Hospital to share their music with children who will remain in critical care throughout the festive season; our love and best wishes go out to each and every one of them and their families.

A huge well done to all our players who represented eight different Primary Schools from Saltdean and Brighton to Hove, Portslade and Shoreham. And well done to all our grown ups who set the time aside to travel to the Royal Alex and show their support. Here’s a message of thanks from the Royal Alex team who helped us put everything together:

Hi Everyone, Thank you all so much for your visit this morning. The children were fantastic! Everyone was so happy and loved hearing the lovely music. Please pass on our thanks to the children and families for their time and the brilliant music. Wishing you all a very happy Christmas!! Best wishes, Katy and the Play Team.

We couldn’t be prouder of you all! We look forward to more music making next term and to our next Blow Out adventure. In the meantime we wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2026!