Music and Flute
St Boniface values the importance of music in children’s everyday lives. Music is taught weekly and children from Year 1-6 receive specialist music teaching during the year. They learn the important musical skills of composition, singing, listening and appreciation.
Thank you parents for supporting our Enrichment lessons, through your voluntary donations to the Enrichment fund, ensuring specialist teachers for this subject.
Whole School - Each class learn hymns and carols and a variety of musical instruments. Performances happen at end of term Brass concerts, Assemblies and our December Christmas concert at St Boniface Church. Musicians the children have been learning about in class include: Florence Price, Aaron Copeland, John Williams, Louis Armstrong, Cecile Chaminade, Bela Bartok, Richard Wagner, Errollyn Wallen, George Bizet, Aram Khachaturan, Scott Joplin, Sergei Rachmaninov, Edvard Grieg, Bedrich Smetana, Pytor Tchaikovsky, Isaac Albeniz, Clara Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn, Alexander Borodin, Johann Strauss, Ludwig von Beethoven, Antonin Dvorak, Antonio Vivaldi, Thomas Tallis.
School choir: The choir holds rehearsals every Friday morning at 8am for Key Stage 2 and is free to join. They learn a variety of challenging songs that involves harmonies and they get to develop different vocal skills. The choir also gets invited to sing with other schools for the Catholic Choirs Concert in the Spring term and it is a wonderful performance opportunity for them.
Flute - Flute lessons via Wandsworth Music happen on Mondays or Thursdays during the school day. Lessons are available either as a part of a group or on an individual basis from Year 2. It’s a great opportunity to learn an orchestral instrument and also participate in all school concerts. If your child has previously learnt the recorder they will transition easily to the flute as it has similar fingerings. Apply via the Wandsworth Music tab above.
Year 2&3 - your child can learn the flute, see Wandsworth music for information on the fee paying lessons.
Year 4 - all children learn a brass instrument - for FREE thanks to the Enrichment fund. If they want to learn flute, you can purchase lessons via Wandsworth music.
Year 5&6 - your child can continue brass or flute lessons, see Wandsworth music for information on the fee paying lessons and hiring instruments.
We are so fortunate as well to have been awarded our Music Mark for our high-quality commitment to music education. It is an amazing sign of recognition for the fantastic music teaching that happens at St Boniface.