On Wednesday 3rd May, our year five class took part in a workshop where they were taught how to play the polyphones by Mr Clark. This included a performance to the entire school and parents in the afternoon. Year 5 then did some follow up writing on the workshop in their English class, writing a newspaper report on the event. Here is an example of one child’s report:

SS Peter and Paul Sing the Blues

On Wednesday 3rd May, a year five class from SS Peter and Paul Catholic Primary Academy learnt to play the polyphones.

Mr Clark, who is a musician, taught year five how to play the polyphones. The class learnt a tune called the ‘Twelve Bar Blues’ and apparently they performed it amazingly. Mr Clark helped year five remember the four notes by showing one, two, three or four on his fingers. All children in year five enjoyed learning to play. Sophie, a year five pupil, stated, “I enjoyed it, it was very fun!” When the children were ready and set to go, they performed to the entire school. Every child in year five had a go at doing a solo but these people did during the performance: Kiera, Kaloyan, Khola, Karo, Kamila, Reece, Tanaka, Mr Morgan and Mr Clark’s wife and daughter. About twenty parents attended the performance and all of them being very proud. Mr Morgan stated, “I was very proud of year five”.

At the end of the performance, everyone gave year five a gigantic clap for all the hard work. Next year Mr Clark will hopefully return to teach the current year four to play the polyphones just like year five did.