Music and Drama
Music forms an integral part of our curriculum, often linked to the topics studied in history. Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 perform separate Nativity plays, complete with songs and dances. The children in Foundation Stage perform again in the summer term.
Our annual Carol Service is a further opportunity for the children to display their talents in music and public speaking.
Year 6 currently stage a Shakespeare production each year, for which the children compose their own music and the three remaining Key Stage 2 classes perform an additional drama production each year with a high musical content.
Fairfield enters pupils for the Weston-super-Mare Junior Arts Festival and consistently achieves excellent results.
Within this busy schedule, there is still time for studies of individual composers and to welcome visiting musicians who bring different aspects of music to life for our children. We also arrange visits to concert halls and drama productions to further enrich the curriculum. Each year, we celebrate a Creative Arts Week, during which the focus is music and/ or art from a specific continent, country or culture. Our “Africa Weeks” culminated in a drum workshop, whilst our “Australia Week” celebrated Aboriginal art and music. Our children have also performed at St George’s, Bristol.
Drama and music play a big part too in our Family Assemblies which are presented by each class on Fridays throughout the year.
Extra-curricular music activities include: brass, choir, guitar, handbells, piano, percussion, recorders and woodwind.
The cast of the 2011 Y6 production of Twelfth Night
