Learn the Uke!

Introduction

The Youth Music Initiative team have created a  project to support teachers deliver class Ukulele lessons The YMI tutors come to the school to start the lessons and deliver some CPD for the staff. After a few weeks the of co-delivery, the YMI tutors reduce their input and only come into the school every couple weeks, with the class teacher leading the class in the alternate weeks.

As the project is develops, and has now be changed by the lockdown, we are adding song sheets and videos that can be downloaded and used at home or in the school hubs  If you have access GLOW you can see all of them on our YMI Making Music Teams Page.

Words

We have song and chord sheets that can be printed off for all of the songs videos.

To view the words online just click on the link. To download the files right click on the links and then select either:

  • Save Target As’ (PC)
  • ‘Download Linked File’ (Mac

Budapest

La Cucaracha

You can download the words for all the songs in our posts on the following Learning Resource page.

 

Here is one of the videos we have made, with Mrs Borthwick leading La Cucaracha.

 

Links

This the link to the Ukulele Playlist so you can watch more at home.

You can subscribe to our YMI Borders YouTube Channel where we have other playlists and learning videos from the tutors.

For teachers and support staff you can access our GLOW Making Music resource pages. If you are not already member of the Team you can request access.

Scottish Opera Tour

The Scottish Opera Primary School tour has been happening for 50 years . Each year, once we get our funding,  we apply for 3 or 4 schools to take part across the region and there is always a high demand for spaces . This year’s workshop and performance, Warriors! The Emperor’s Incredible Army, is based upon  the true story of Emperor Qin’s incredible 2,000 year old terracotta army.

This year we have managed to combine a number of smaller schools to work together on one show, that will be performed in the bigger school.  The project will be delivered to  5 or 6 schools and will take place between April and May 2020.

The pupils learning the songs with their teacher in class,  using the resources provided by Scottish Opera. There is a practice morning, led by a SO singing coach,  two weeks before the workshop day.  Then the performance day it is all pulled together by a team of SO staff, with a morning of practice, a dress rehearsal to the rest of the school, followed by a final performance to the parents. it is amazing what the pupils achieve in such a short space of time.

The story line for this years workhop is below.

ll hail Qin Shi Huang – the first Emperor of China, destined to rule his Empire forever. After all, didn’t he drink the Elixir of Life, a potion that promises immortality? Not such a great promise when that elixir turns out to be a deadly poison. Now the afterlife awaits, but even a dead Emperor needs an army. So, over many years, he’s gathered a vast hoard to watch over him after death – 8,000 soldiers, horses and chariots, all armoured and armed to the teeth. And every one of them moulded from clay…

Music:  Alan Penman
Lyrics:  Ross Stenhouse
Commissioned with the five Scottish Confucius Institutes

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