….and rest!
Have a great Christmas and New Year!
Here are the videos from the Year 7 concert and the Christmas concert – huge thanks to Ben for shooting and editing these!
This lot are very clever… maybe a number for Boyvox for next Christmas?!??
Here are when your rehearsals are on Concert Day on Thursday 14th December. There will be all the normal rehearsals on Mon-Wed.
On Thursday, you may not miss any lessons other than those indicated by what is on the rehearsal schedule.
The concert is at 6.30pm in the Hall. You can use CGD to put coats, cases etc. in.
You need to wear all black.
When you are not performing, you need to be part of the audience – do not hang around in CGD or in the corridor (unless you are in the very next item).
The concert will finish at approximately 8.45pm. Tickets are £5 for adults (under-18s and over-60s FREE) and are available on the door. 
Members of Choir, Boyvox, and Showsongs need to learn all their words! We will not be using copies in any rehearsals this week. Please see the Choir page (you can access this via the drop-down on the ‘Home’ tab at the top of this page).
If you are in Concert Band, remember we have the Hayes Free Church gig on Sunday! You have had a letter about this – see you there at 5.30pm for the service at 6.30pm. Friends and family are all welcome. Black outfits for this too please. Remember to bring everything you will need!
The next thing on our list of Christmas events is the Christmas Tree Festival at Hayes Free Church on Sunday 10th December. This involves Concert Band only but everyone is welcome to come along to the service, which is at 6.30pm. Concert Band members have had a letter with all the details on it, so you should know where to go, when to be there, what to bring and what to wear! As always, if you have any quality questions please ask!
The Christmas concert is coming up very fast! the rehearsal schedule for the day of the concert will be on NEXT WEEK’S BLOG. There will be a full day of rehearsals in the Hall on the day. On the evening itself, you need to wear all black and make sure you leave instrument cases etc. in CGD. You need to be at the back of the Hall being part of the audience for anything you’re not actually in, but be ready to come on when it’s your turn.
We still have two places left on our tour to Germany in April. Dates are 2-8th April. If you want to fill one of these spaces, you will need to come up with the money pretty much all in one go, so you’ll have to check that this is OK with your parents! The total cost is £540. Please see MissW for more details.
…really hoping that we might have a creative Boomwhacker item in MusicFest one day…!
This is another fab opportunity for woodwind, brass and percussion players, grades 2-5. Free trial of Pops Band next Wednesday, 6pm till 7.15pm. The pieces they are currently rehearsing include Can’t Stop the Feeling, Shut Up and Dance, The Sound of Music, The Pink Panther and I’ll be There.
Congratulations to all Year 7s who performed on Tuesday, but especially to our winners:
1st place: Brooke Simpson (double bass)
2nd place: Ben Foster (trumpet)
3rd place: Olivia Wahl (saxophone)
Class 7WXA and Mr Bello with their performance of Four Five Seconds.
And special thanks to our wonderful volunteers who performed while the judge made her deliberations: Harry Aldridge, Ben Frost, Hannah Martin, Alana Murtagh, Laura Mascarenhas and Ben Martin.
Thank you to everyone in Jamsesh who turned out on a chilly afternoon to play at the Christmas Lights! Special thanks to Emily for her solo in All I Want for Christmas Is You.
…are going to be busy!
We have the Christmas Tree Festival on Sunday 10th December for Concert Band, and then the Christmas Concert on Thursday 14th December for EVERYONE who is in anything!
Make sure you are at all relevant rehearsals. Members of all choirs need to get learning their words! Hop on over to the Choirs page (accessible via the dropdown tab on the ‘Home’ button at the top of this page) for videos of all relevant songs.
Make sure that if you’ve got choir copies at home, you bring them to rehearsals!
It’s time for the Year 7 concert already! Year 7 classes have been working really hard in their lessons, and it’s sure to be another corker… thanks in advance to the Music Leaders and other students who have volunteered to help on the evening.
If you are in Year 7, here’s what to do when you arrive at the church. Students in UV classes go straight to the front of the church, while WX classes sit in the audience with their parents for the first half.
Starts: 7pm
Finishes: about 9pm
Tickets: £3 via ParentPay or on the door.
Wear: school uniform
Jamsesh will be appearing at the Hayes Christmas Lights festivities – all supporters welcome!
There’s a lot more to it than just treble and bass clefs! Here is how to read the other clefs:
But there are actually more clefs than these! Here is an insight into all the other weird and wacky clefs that there are…
(…for this to be funny you need to work out what kind of cadence this is!)
Huge thanks to Corinna for editing all the footage! And to all the performers for a fab MusicFest!
The next 6 weeks are one of our busiest times of year! We have got the following things coming up:
Get organised, and know what you’re doing when – and make sure you’re at rehearsals!
Ermmmmmm…….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESgz53I9w9Q
Some weekend musical fun playing along with the timps!
We had a brilliant mixture of different styles, lots of students’ first performances, and loads of top-quality singing and playing – well done all! A video will be coming out in due course.
Now we are looking forward to a well-earned rest at half term, and gearing up for our busy weeks in the run up to Christmas! Make sure you have these dates in your diary:
Remember that all choir songs (Choir, Boyvox, Showsongs, Chamber Choir) can be found over on the Choirs page (hover over the ‘Home’ button at the top).
Thank you for all your MusicFest entries – we are in for a fabulous evening of performances! Huge thanks to Hannah for compiling the programme.
Arrangements for the day:
On the day, we will be able to set things up in the Hall from 4.30pm: Music Leaders plus any other willing helpers/roadies please! During the concert we will need people to do the following:
If you are up for any of these jobs, please let MissW know, and then be around in the right place at the right time!
A MASSIVE thank you to Jazz Band and the Music Leaders for their help at Open Day. People ALWAYS comment about how great Jazz Band sound, and it creates exactly the right impression – that music is important to Hayes School, and that we’re pretty good at it! Help in CGD and upstairs in the studio was just as appreciated – it’s so fantastic to see students interacting with our visitors, and being so confident about demonstrating their music and answering questions (it’s better, really, if visitors have questions answered by students than teachers).
Also, we could not have done without all the hours that you have spent helping with the displays – we have had more displays to do in the last few months than EVER before, and they look the best they ever have done.
We honestly could not do as much as we do without all the help we get from students. You are amazing!
See above for details of a fab jazz opportunity at BYMT – please note that the Birdland Band has no age limit, so parents could get involved too!
We all know that musicians are special, right? But here’s scientific proof…
Jazz Band will be out the front, as usual… and in CGD we will be chair drumming and boomwhacking! Jazz Band, please collect everything on Friday afternoon and move it all to the staff room ready to go on Saturday morning. Anyone who would like to help out in CGD chair drumming and boomwhacking, you are more than welcome!
Music Leaders: there will be displays to sort out next week, in time for Open Day – any/all help gratefully received!
You will be able to sign up until the end of Friday 6th October. Any student, in any year group, can perform in MusicFest. Please use this form to sign up (you will need to log in with your Hayes account). Please note that MusicFest starts at 6pm. Tickets are £2 on the door. Performers can wear whatever they like as long as they look nice!
On the day of MusicFest, we will be able to set things up in the Hall from 4.30pm: Music Leaders plus any other willing helpers/roadies please! During the concert we will need people to do the following:
If you are up for any of these jobs, please let MissW know, and then be around in the right place at the right time!
We have two more places left on our music tour to Germany next Easter (April 2-8). If you are interested, please see Miss Werry.
Calling 6th formers! Pickhurst Infants are wondering if any of you might be able to lead ukulele/recorder/ocarina sessions for their children. It would involve setting up a regular slot when you can go down there and work with the littlies. If you would like to know more, please see MissW
A chance to play in a scratch (i.e. one-off, rehearse-on-the-day) performance of an orchestral piece at the South Bank Centre, on Sunday 1st October, and it’s FREE! More details here.
Musicfest is coming up on Wednesday 11th October. These are informal concerts where any student from any year group can perform a piece of their own choice. We always have an amazing mixture of pop, rock, classical, jazz, own compositions, with students performing solo, in small groups…. and everybody from the most experienced performers right down to people having a go for the first time. If you would like to perform something, please fill in this form (you need a Hayes login to see it). The deadline for getting entries in is Thursday 5th October.
A huge thank you to Miss Daniel from Bromley High for coming over this week to teach samba to our Year 11s! Have a watch… it sounds and looks great!
Also, here’s a little reminder of our tour to Madrid in April – thank you to Corinna for putting this together for us!
Hayes Music blog 