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Auditions for Battle of the Bands

29/2/2016

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Auditions started today for this year's Battle of the Bands. Good luck to everyone involved and thanks for all your hard work in rehearsals thus far.
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Music Teacher Awards for Excellence

29/2/2016

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Miss Rusbatch attended the award ceremony in Knightsbridge, London last Thursday night. Unfortunately, Downs Junior School wasn't crowned winner in the Best School Music Department category, but it's a huge honour and achievement to have been selected as a finalist at these prestigious national awards. Congratulations to everyone involved in the music department - teacher and music-making students. 
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AUDITIONS for Battle of the Bands

24/2/2016

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A record 57 bands have entered this year's Battle of the Bands. Auditions will take place next week. The top 12 bands will be announced on Friday 4th March. The final will take place after school on Wednesday 9th March in the school hall. For more information, visit the Battle of the Bands 2016 page. 
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Let's Dance - Rehearse

12/2/2016

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Here's Raquel performing the routine (work-in-progress) for this year's Year 6 Let's Dance - watch and rehearse over half term. Happy Dancing!
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Band Rehearsals

11/2/2016

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Bands are still working hard every lunchtime for the upcoming Battle of the Bands auditions.
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Introducing...

8/2/2016

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...the school's new Pearl drum kit. 

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Our drum teacher, Loz Thomas, helps to tune the drums and has a play
to get a 'feel' for the new drum kit.
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Audition Week - Date Changes

5/2/2016

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Please note changes to the auditions for Battle of the Bands:

Auditions will now take place Monday 29th February - Friday 4th March. The timings of auditions will be released and uploaded the week before. 

The final will still take place on Wednesday 9th March.

We've currently received a record number of band entries for this year's battle (51 bands) so it will be a very busy audition week. Good luck to everyone taking part. Only 12 bands will make it through to the final.

Apologies for the date changes - this is because Miss Rusbatch is attending the Music Education Expo in London and the Awards for Excellence ceremony in Knightsbridge.

Orchestra will also be cancelled that week - Thursday 25th February.
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Beowulf the Hero - 4K Performance

5/2/2016

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Congratulations to Ms Kay and all the children in 4K - your performances of the story of Beowulf today were brilliant. There were fantastic costumes, scary make-up and masks, impressive sound effects and screams, live music throughout, a super slideshow of Anglo-Saxon monsters, and great performances all round. Ms Kay wrote the script and the children in 4K wrote the finale song, with a little help from Miss Rusbatch - Miss Rusbatch was particularly impressed with your performance of the finale song. You can watch the video 'He Killed the Monsters' below:
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4K performing their own song: He Killed the Monsters
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Space Sailing - Stage 2

4/2/2016

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The children in Orchestra have been developing their compositional ideas for our composition, entitled, Space Sailing. The piece was initially inspired by a short melody, composed by Max. To watch and listen to the development of this new piece, visit the Orchestra page. 
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Rocking the Recorder in Year 4

3/2/2016

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The children in 4DP and 4F have been developing their music-reading and recorder-playing skills very quickly, thanks to their effort and concentration and perseverance. Keep it up kids!
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Band Entries

3/2/2016

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There have already been a record number of band entries this year. Miss Rusbatch has currently received entries from 49 different bands. The application deadline in Friday 12th February.
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