SRA Music

Some of our year 9 music students enjoyed a morning of exploring some traditional Gamelan music at Stevenage music centre. @SRA_StAlbans @TandLSRA @HMSStevenage

Rehearsals getting underway for our year 5s at Young Voices @SRA_StAlbans @SRAPrimary

* Rock Band Workshop * On Tuesday, our Year 10 Music students enjoyed a fantastic Rock Band Workshop. We’d like to thank Mr Wilkinson, a professional musician, for delivering such an brilliant session to our students.

* Musician of the Month: Jimi Hendrix *

Thank you @SraMusic for our wonderful musical soirée 🎶🎤🎸🥁🎺🎷 It was very well attended and provided a lovely lunchtime atmosphere. More please! A huge well done to all musicians; so talented (and brave… I couldn’t!) @SRA_StAlbans So proud of our students 🤩🥹

From opera to the Beatles, our primary students enjoyed a demonstration of different vocal and singing styles from our singing teacher Mrs Williamson, joined by some of our secondary singers. @SRA_StAlbans @SRAPrimary @TandLSRA

Some of our year 9 music students spent the day learning “Texas hold em” as part of a Rock Band workshop with Stuart Wilkinson. They made excellent progress across the day and performed what they had learned to some of our year 5 students. @SRA_StAlbans @TandLSRA

Our year 10 GCSE music students took part in a whole-day songwriting workshop today to support their composition skills. @SRA_StAlbans @TandLSRA

Year 6 have also been lucky enough to participate in a rap workshop organised by @music_sra and @SRAEnglishDept. A lot of creativity on display.

* Musician of the Month * June: Bob Marley @SraMusic

On Tuesday evening, we were treated to the Primary Music Summer Showcase which provided an exciting opportunity for our children to showcase their musical talents. We were incredibly proud of them all. samuelryderacademy.co.uk/386/news/post/… @SraMusic

Some of our year 5 beginner brass players working hard and learning how to play in rounds. @TandLSRA @SRAPrimary @SRA_StAlbans

Well done to all of the amazing students who represented their Houses in the Talent Show on Friday - it was incredibly impressive! Congratulations to Laila A who won the competition for King House and Dyno L who took second place for Christie House. @SraMusic @SRAHouseSystem

* Musician of the Month - May: Anna Clyne *

Year 5 students enjoyed an amazing beatboxing workshop today delivered by @schoolofbeatbox They had lots of fun trying out new musical skills using their voices. @TandLSRA @SRA_StAlbans @SRAPrimary

Some photos from our amazing year 9 music and dance showcase yesterday evening. Students planned and led on the whole event and did themselves very proud. @TandLSRA @SRA_StAlbans

Some of our year 9 music students enjoying a new experience and learning how to play some Javanese Gamelan earlier this week. A big thanks to Stevenage music centre for their workshops. @SRA_StAlbans @TandLSRA @HMSStevenage

Rehearsals now in full swing for the Young Voices performance this evening. @SRAPrimary @SRA_StAlbans

Year 5 warming up ready to start the rehearsal for their Young Voices concert this evening. We’re all very excited! @SRAPrimary @TandLSRA @SRA_StAlbans

Year 6 performed silent night in German as part of our winter showcase, linking it to their learning of the World Wars 🎶🎄 @SRAHISTORY