Year 1 Dance – 5,6,7,8

Year One really enjoyed their first dance lesson of the term with Gemma! Here are some great moments from the lesson.

Arts round-up

Hello St. Margaret’s! I thought it was about time we had another round-up of all the amazing Arts and Culture out there. I’ve gathered together lots of resources below, all with links to the relevant websites. There should be something for everyone so have a browse and maybe step out of your comfort zone and […]

Miss Sheppard’s (very bad) dance challenge!

I challenge you children to a virtual dance off! In Reception we often use “Just Dance” and follow the moves, so I thought I would upload some videos of “dance challenges” I have found during lockdown. One is called the “Cha Cha Slide Challenge” I have uploaded a video of myself doing this and a […]

Nursery 2/4

Need a bit of a lift Nursery? Well get on your dancing shoes and let’s go wild by playing the Stick Song from Hey Duggie on a 5 minute loop! Grown ups, it’s an easy find on YouTube and a firm favourite as you can see from our videos! I have also included some dances […]

Peter and the Wolf 7pm TONIGHT – free performance

The Royal Opera House are going to be streaming productions for free over the coming weeks and the programme starts tonight with children’s ballet Peter and the Wolf. This colourful, narrated children’s ballet sees a boy save his grandfather and animal friends from a big, bad wolf. Suitable for all ages, it stars pupils of […]

Nursery singalong

After some yoga in the morning courtesy of Cosmic Kids why not check out the fantastic resource that is BBC Nursery Radio. It is great for developing early language skills and has nicely animated nursery rhymes with large, clear subtitles that you can pause to encourage early reading. Can you find the letters in your […]

Nursery ❤️Music!

We have been joining in with rhymes and making dance moves to music today. We are getting very good at copying movements and putting them together into a sequence to make a dance. Our listening ears are fantastic!

Reception’s performances

As many of you may already know… we have been looking at musical instruments and experimenting making different sounds! We decided to have a performance today, and here are a few videos us, we had a brilliant time both listening to our friends and performing ourselves!

Dance Enrichment raises the roof

“That was much better than I thought it would be!” High praise indeed from one of our oldest students who was honest enough to admit that they were not particularly looking forward to a half-term of dance enrichment. Our mixed group of Year 5 and 6 children were nothing short of awesome in our first […]