Our instrumental music staff have recently been working with pupils on various projects which have provided a fantastic focus for the pupils learning.

We make music for the NHS

The Music Education Partnership Group (MEPG) organised a project to bring musicians from all across the 32 Local authorities in Scotland together to “make music for the NHS”,  to thank them for their work and dedication.

Pupils from our music service took part in this project, more details of which can be found here

The chosen piece of music for pupils to work on and perform was Somewhere Over the Rainbow and a selection of the performances from our brass and strings pupils can be seen below

Our pipers have also been out in force every Thursday evening to #pipeupforkeyworkers and their videos can be seen on the Lewis & Harris Youth Pipe Band Facebook page 

VE Day – 75th anniversary commemorations

Several of our young musicians took part in various events and personal tributes to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe day during World War 2.

Elizabeth Greenstock, who is a flautist in S1 pupil at the Nicolson Institute in Stornoway is also a member of the local army cadets. Here she is performing Amazing Grace.

The pipers were also involved in the commemorations and were individually tasked to learn & perform “When the battle is o’er”.  The video below is of Aaron & Aoife Ingram from Lewis performing this moving piece.

Pictured are  Sir E Scott School pipers Seamus Mackay (P7) and Hamish Scott (S5) who took part in a tribute alongside Hamish’s grandfather, John Murdo Morrison, at the war memorial in Tarbert, Isle of Harris.

We look forward to welcoming our pupils back for the final term of session 2019/20.

This will undoubtedly have a much different feel to previous terms, as with the lockdown currently in place all our teaching will be taking place online. Our Instrumental Music Teachers (IMTs) were working hard in the final week before the Easter break to set up and familiarise themselves with the systems that we will be using to deliver our tuition and connect with pupils. This is a completely new concept for many of our staff and pupils but we are looking forward to working through and adapting to the challenges that this style of teaching may throw at us.

Using Microsoft Teams, which is available through Glow, IMTs have set up individual teams for their pupils in each school and we hope that by now most of our pupils will have managed to connect with their teacher via this method.

Lessons will be delivered via the v-Scene platform, which e-Sgoil have been using successfully for a few years.

Please see the guides in the Online Lessons tab in the menu for help with getting things set up and information on both Teams and v-Scene including information regarding the security of both these systems.

Contact details for our IMTs can be found on the individual teacher pages under the Meet the Team tab in the menu, and they can be contacted via email if you are having any problems with getting anything set up.

General enquiries regarding any other aspect of the Instrumental Music Service should be directed to the staff members mentioned on the Contact page.