Our first primary school ceilidh dance Brotherton and Byram CP Academy with fiddle playing by Sarah Loughran! A great community event with staff, children and parents dancing together and having loads of fun Ebor Academy Trust

Team Aire learning about rhythm and pulse, and exploring different kinds of percussion with Mr Heath. Look at those happy faces! 😀

Team Derwent studing rhythmic notation and working together as a team to perform 'Suzie Snail'. Great rhythm here and beautiful singing too 🎤

D laying down a beat - she has been obsessed with the drum kit in the Haxby Road Primary music room since Christmas, and has learnt some real skills now. This is proper rockin' 🤘

Team Aire exploring pitch and rhythm, learning ‘Hey Beetle’ by ear and playing the whole song in the Boomwhacker Orchestra. Part of our weekly carousel of PE, Spanish and music lessons.

Yr5 Haxby Road Primary singing our medley of Sailing + Wade in the Water at YorkSchoolsChoralFestival. #proudteacher We listened to some fantastic choirs, learnt about spirituals, wrote our own songs, and even got to play a grand piano. Big thanks to York Music Hub

Musical lunch time on a beautiful day. Mr Heath Ebor Academy Trust

We were working on hemidemisemi quavers today in year 2 😂🤣🥁

Team Calder getting hands on with the cornet, and being quite surprised by JUST HOW LOUD a piece of metal tubing can be! #pardon #canyousaythatagain

Team Humber working on their African Drumming performance, composing their own rhythms and teaching each other. Great team skills, musical skills and loads of enthusiasm!

A new venture for me, as MD of the Riccall Community Choir. facebook.com/riccallchoir

After school #choir turned into after school #band today. Some confident, tuneful and beautiful singing at the front! Ebor Academy Trust

The Grand Old Duke of York - Team Foss exploring multiplication in music with rank and file formations, all while learning to march on the beat and turn every bar! #musiced #maths

Thinking about your music curriculum? We can help. Curriculum and how to assess it with Rob Heath Mr Heath Listening and appraising with a Karen Marshall @getsetpiano Ofsted needs to see music beingvtaught in your school..David John Winter @EborHopeTSA Ebor Academy Trust

Several classes have been working on singing bass lines, or 'root melodies', taking inspiration from John Feierabend and Missy Strong. Bass boomwhackers provide a great way to explore the sound of a bass part, in preparation for part singing.

A very proud young lady in Team Derwent, who transcribed ‘Button you must wander’ with Solfa counters, added the rests, and sang it back with ‘do re mi’.

Learning about Bass Lines, melody and singing in parts in Team Foss, using the song ‘Button you must wander’.

Riccall Community Choir performed our first concert on Friday, singing songs from around the world, and raising £400 towards Saint Mary's Church roof appeal. A little snippet below of our rendition of Rio Grande, a rousing Sea Shanty! ⛵️⚓️🐳🌊

My youngest brought this home from his first classes at the Jazz Institute at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music. I heartily concur with this document

Story Fred Roger told from 1998 when he visited his grandchildren: “So I went up only to find them watching a Batman cartoon on television. The first thing I saw on the program when I walked into the room was a group of people with machine guns shooting everyone (1/4)