Today we had a special visit from ‘The Akademiks’.
We all sang and danced to Christmas music.
We had a fantastic time!!!
Over the past two months, our choir has worked incredibly hard to learn a wide variety of new songs. They were fortunate to collaborate with the Durham Cathedral Music Programme and take part in a wonderful performance at the Cathedral, alongside other schools from South Tyneside. The event featured songs themed around animals and the beautiful message of All Things Bright and Wonderful.
Just last week, the choir took to the stage again—this time at The Glasshouse in Newcastle—performing with several other schools in a concert themed around space. As always, our choir members demonstrated maturity, poise, and a true passion for music, representing our school brilliantly. Well done!
Harton Choir were randomly selected on Friday 14th February, to be a part of the ‘Choir Of The Year Competition 2025’ at Durham Cathedral.
They had to sing alongside 5 other schools in front of 2 judges.
The children sang ‘Rule The World’ by Take That and they were AMAZING!
Unfortunately, they did not win the competition but they were given some valuable feedback about how they could improve in the future and there were a lot of positive comments about their performance.
Well done, Harton Choir!
On Monday 2nd December, we were so proud of our choir when they sang beautifully alongside a number of other schools at the Carol Concert held at Temple Park.
For obvious reasons, the performance is not filmed but Radio Shields do record the event and it’s due to be aired as follows:
“Tune In to the Sounds of Christmas!
Radio Shields is proud to showcase this year’s South Tyneside Civic Christmas Carol Concert – a festive celebration of music and community spirit!
Broadcast Times:
Monday 16th December at 2 PM
Wednesday 18th December at 2 PM
Friday 20th December at 2 PM”
Well done Harton Choir!
This week we have been celebrating Black History Week. We have been talking about what makes us special and learning about different cultures. In topic, we learned about Africa. We found out many facts about the country and compared Africa to the UK. We made some African necklaces and took part in some African dancing.
At Harton Primary we believe it is vital for all our children to have the opportunity to engage with a wide range of music, through listening, composing, singing, playing and exploring music through cultures and periods of time.
We encourage the children to learn about different artists, who create and perform great pieces of music or art and discuss their similarities or differences.
Each term we listen to music that enhances the children’s knowledge about a particular artist. Music is played during assemblies and the children are taught about the artist specifically in music and art lessons.
Autumn 1
Francis Albert Sinatra (Frank Sinatra) was born on 12th December 1915. He was an American singer and film actor. Sinatra found huge success as a solo artist from the early to mid-1940s after being signed by Columbia Records in 1943. He released his first album, ‘The Voice of Frank Sinatra’ in 1946. His professional career had stalled by the early 1950s, but it was reborn in 1953 after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the film From Here to Eternity.
By 1961, Sinatra had created his own record label, (Reprise Records) and was singing all over the world. He was a founding member of the ’Rat Pack’ and spent lots of time with famous celebrities (other famous actors in the Rat Pack included Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Junior).
With sales of his music dwindling and after appearing in several poorly received films, Sinatra retired for the first time in 1971. Two years later, however, he came out of retirement and in 1973 recorded several very successful albums.
Sinatra is one of the best known artists of all time, selling over 50,000,000 records!
Frank Sinatra died on 14th May 1998 as one of the world’s most famous singers.
Reception performed their final stay and play. We sang songs, decorated cakes, biscuits and created a hanging decoration. We ended our stay and play by showing our amazing dance moves. We had so much fun!!!
Today Reception talked about different places we could host a show. Then we designed and built our own show using Lego. Next, we looked behind the scenes and talked about different jobs people might have at theatres, museums and galleries. After that, we build objects, tools and vehicles that the people doing these jobs might use. It was so much fun !!!
As part of the NE Festival of Languages, our school choir learnt ‘Happy’ by Pharrell Williams in French. Our singing has been incorporated into a video with all of the other participating schools. Enjoy!
Today we had a special visit from the ‘Tiny Tweeties’. We sang fairytale songs, clapped, danced and tapped to the beat of the music. We had so much fun!
