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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!

Our new music partners – Stanford Junior School

Richard

Are you ready to discover a whole new sound? We’ve added a brilliant new activity to the school’s lively music programme – KS2 harmonica groups!

Each Wednesday morning you’ll have the chance to learn and play this fantastic instrument in small, fun, year groups. It’s the perfect way to discover music, build confidence, and get creative. Like to know more? Click the Gold Harmonica here on our website, register for a FREE taster session, and we’ll send you all the details you need to get started. Don’t miss your chance to join the band – if you can breathe in and out you can play!

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.

Summer Postcard Competition 2025 Winners

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Thank you to everyone who sent in postcards during the summer holidays – we had some amazing entries! Our random generator selected the following three winners and your prizes will be delivered to our first music session of the new term.

1st Place
Eleanor playing in front of Thomas the Tank Engine. Eleanor wins a Special 20 harmonica and Harp Academy mug.

2nd Place
Orson playing in front of some lovely Dutch windmills. Orson wins a Harp Academy mug and mini-harmonica key chain.

3rd Place
Millie and Josh fearlessly playing on a glass balcony in Germany. Both win a Harp Academy mug and mini-harmonica key chain.