Norfolk County Music Festival 2024

Our Ukulele Ensemble and Salsa Band both performed at the Norfolk County Music Festival last Friday with excellent results. Our Ukulele Ensemble were given the highest marking of ‘Outstanding’ for what the judge called “an exceptional performance, both artistically and technically.” The confidence of this group comprised of 41 children from Years 4 to 6 grew as the performance went on and the last song, ‘Green, Green Grass’ by George Ezra, was described as having “fantastic confidence and strength of rhythmic playing, particularly on the stops. Love expressive singing. Nice keyboards too.” 

Our Salsa Band received ‘Highly commended +’ for “a generally correct and creditable performance with greater evidence of artistic interpretation.” Children also had to persevere through some technical hitches. We are very proud of all the children who took part, for the dedication to practice and their performances on the day. A big thank you goes to Mr Leaver, Mr Bell and Mr Weitz for their support and time in getting the children ready for the performances.

Video links: 

Salsa Band: https://fb.watch/qZrDZoeQ0B/

Salhouse Ukulele Ensemble: https://fb.watch/qZs66pb5Ix/

Greek Myths

Over the last term Kingfisher class have been learning about many Greek Myths. All the pupils in Kingfisher class have written the story of Theseus and Minotaur. They have all spent time editing and improving their work. Finally they published their stories in a book, which they shared with Coots, Bitterns and Grebes. Well done, Kingfisher class. Everyone enjoyed your stories.

Exploring Electrical Circuits

Grebes have been making electrical circuits this week, learning to identify electrical components, create simple (and some not-so-simple!) circuits and conducting fair tests to identify problems with circuits that were not working.

Grebes Coding on Scratch

Year 4 have been adapting skills learnt on Espresso Coding to a new coding platform, Scratch. Their mission was to create simple games or animations using the Event, Control and Move blocks. Here are the first few games which you can play at home. You can also click ‘Look Inside’ to view the code and ‘Remix’ if you want to play around with the code yourself. Lots more to come!

‘Penalty Shootout’ by Matthew  https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/960832219 

‘What’s Your Name?’ by Mr. Leaver  https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/962511100/

‘Where You Going?’ by James https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/962560810

‘Pong’ by Osker https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/961371420

‘Shootout Penalties’ by Jazz https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/962562646

Planet Clicker by Daniil https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/956983118 

Dreamazon by Daniil https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/960538134 

Don’t Get Rammed by Matthew https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/963473891 

Squirrel Shootout by Harry https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/956798916 

THE END IS NEAR! by Blossom https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/962775591 

Escape the Human / Catch the Dog by Lily https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/956805065 

Money Monster by Alexia https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/960313936 

Yellow Card by Jonah  https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/963869603 

My Little World Doughnut Addiction by Freya and Noah https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/963866026

Calling all Musicians!

Every Friday at Salhouse we enjoy our Music assemblies. This week we had a special performance by Miles from Year 4 on the keyboard. He has been learning the instrument at school with Mr Bell and at home with his dad, and he wowed us all by playing Green, Green Grass, Starlight and Kingston Town. 

Are you learning an instrument? (It doesn’t matter what level you’re at!)  Would you like the chance to show off your skills to the whole school? Then just let your teacher know and we will arrange a date!

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