KS2 Harmonica

Summer Term Enrolment

Richard

We are really looking forward to sharing our 11 week Caribbean Music Celebration with you this Summer. We’re also excited to announce our Summer Harmonica Blow Out at The Alex Children’s Hospital. If you are new to Harp Academy Click here and we’ll send you a free taster invitation and further information. Our returners will find subscription renewal information below, on our How to Pay page and in our email reminders.


Subscription Renewals 
If you are returning, welcome back! Your full subscription of £82.50 for our 11 week summer schedule is now due. Alternatively, you can split your subscription payment into two convenient instalments of £44.00 each. Your first instalment is now due and your second instalment is payable by 15th May 2026. All payments should be made by bank transfer to Harp Academy / NatWest / 27231208 / 60 30 09 / Reference Your child’s name. You can also pay by credit/debit card or PayPal through our Webstore lesson payments menu (no log in required). Second child and staff discounts are also available on application.

Our Summer Teaching Plan
Our Summer theme this year is sunshine music from the Caribbean – from Salsa, Calypso and Soca, to Ska and Reggae. Amongst our favourite tunes are Feeling Hot Hot Hot, One Love, Enjoy Yourself, My Boy Lollipop, 10/10, Best Days of our Lives, Tingalayo, Hänschen Klein, Eat Chocolate and This Old Man. Our Musical Elements focus is on Pulse, Rhythm and Clave, where we will investigate time signatures, metronomes, syncopation and conducting.

See you this Summer… and please tell all your friends!
We wish you all a Happy Summer 2026 and please share our information with other parents/carers in your social media and WhatsApp groups. The harmonica is a magical way to experience music making, and children always enjoy learning with their best friends. Why not recommend a taster session to your harmonaut’s class buddies? Taster sessions are completely free and include a 4 hole starter harmonica to keep! Please note that our agreement with Westdene Primary includes a 10 hole Suzuki Airwave harmonica in lieu of a free taster session.

Welcome To Two New Harmonica Schools!

Richard

At Peter Gladwin Primary, Portslade, we have launched our KS1 and KS2 Harmonica Groups on Tuesday afternoons. This compliments our whole class Access to Music programme at the school, where children enjoy a term of graduated harmonica music learning in line with the National Curriculum. If you would like a FREE TASTER, simply click the Gold Harmonica here on our homepage, complete your contact details, and we will send you further details.

At Swiss Gardens Primary, Shoreham-by-Sea, we have launched our Wednesday KS2 After School Club. This marks a return to harmonica music learning with our friends at Swiss Gardens, where we previously collaborated before the Lockdown of 2020-22. If you would like a FREE TASTER, simply click the Gold Harmonica here on our homepage, complete your contact details selecting the FREE TASTER option, and we will send you further details.

Sample Lesson – When The Saints

Richard

I want to be in that number
It’s time to learn some fun jazz on the harmonica and here’s a song everybody will recognise. It’s called When The Saints Go Marching In and it’s from New Orleans, The song has a long name, so we’ll call it The Saints for short.


The Saints started life as an American gospel hymn and it was sung quite slowly. But once the Jazz Bands of New Orleans got hold of it, they soon gave it some swing! Read more