Music lessons at Uplands have been designed to develop technical, constructive and expressive knowledge of music to enable children to engage critically with music, compose and listen with discrimination.
Learn more about our music curriculum by clicking on the links below to view our subject overview and development plan.
Music subject overview
Music Development Plan 2024-25
Year 5 children taking part in their instrumental lessons with Mr Trueman.
Gregory Smith visited Uplands recently to lead our weekly singing assembly and take the children on a musical journey through black history. They travelled from Africa to America and then to England singing songs such as Wade in the Water, I Wish I Knew How it Would Feel to be Free, Hit the Road Jack and Happy Day.
Our children are excited about the Young Voices concert we will be attending in January where they will meet in Birmingham to sing with 5000 other children. They having fun learning the songs.
We have four Uplands rock bands this term called: Five Flames; The Six Dragons; The Elder Dragons and The 6 Rock Stars. They are having a great time learning their instruments and preparing for our end of term concert.
Each week the whole school comes together for singing practice. This week, the children were singing about the harvest.
In June, Uplands joined with schools from around the world to sing this year’s Sing Up Day song ‘I Belong’. We enjoyed singing together and learning British Sign Language actions for the chorus.
Watch this year’s digichoir video which has been put together for the event. You can see Uplands children at 0:45 minutes.
A big well done to our choir children who performed as part of a fun-filled afternoon at the Highfields Centre. They joined children of all different ages from schools in the local area for songs and dances, with a finale of all schools singing ‘We’re All In This Together’ from High School Musical. Thank you to parents for supporting the event, we hope you enjoyed it!
‘It made me feel happy to be part of the event’ Sana – 4 Holly
‘I felt nervous performing in front of lots of people but I really enjoyed it’ Laaibha – 4 Cherry
‘I was so excited!’ Suhaan – 5 Birch
A huge well done to our rock bands, Dragon Leader, The Brain Busters and Lightening Rockers for a fantastic Rock Steady concert! We all enjoyed watching you and cheering you on in your performances. We can’t wait to see you again in the summer term.
On Wednesday, we had a visit from a choral expert who came into school to work with the children in their singing assembly. Years 3 and 4 learnt a song called ‘The Swamp’ with actions and Years 5 and 6 sang a song entitled ‘The Wind’. The children practiced including a ‘chrescendo’ and changing the volume of their voices between ‘forte’ and ‘piano’.
Our school choir visited the Curve theatre along with children from other schools to take part in the ‘Oh Happy Days’ gospel event. They performed three songs ‘Joy’, ‘Movin’ On’ and ‘All Around’.
‘It was amazing!’ Hrikkrish Biswas 4Hazel
‘So exciting!’ Daniel Sors 4Hazel
‘Singing makes me feel happy’ Riana Ene 4Hazel
Our choir children had a wonderful time on Wednesday evening performing at the De Montfort Hall to a full audience! They all learnt the words to the songs off by heart and sounded fantastic!
A full week of music experiences at Uplands Junior L.E.A.D. Academy this week.
On Tuesday each year group sang some Christmas songs at the Highfields Centre, it was so nice to have the whole school come together. On Wednesday the choir sang at The Caribbean Centre and on Thursday we had our end of term performance by our Rock Steady bands, supported by the choir. A very big thank you to our parents who came to support their children and to join in the singing. Our thanks also goes to Ash from Rock Steady, Chris from Leicestershire Music who teaches ukulele and Rebecca who leads the choir. If your child is interested in joining the choir or Rock Steady please contact Mrs Grimshaw through the school office or refer to the leaflet about Rock Steady later in the newsletter.
Y6 enjoyed Drumba today – a mixture of drumming and Zumba. They had a wonderful time. Parents
joined us for a workshop alongside their child at the end of the day.
Parental feedback “ An excellent activity that my son and I enjoyed, highly recommended.” “It was
fantastic, I had great fun.”
