School Assemblies

French Horn in Assembly

Thanks to Mr Shimmin for coming into school to show us how the French Horn is played.  It’s great to hear an instrument played live – it makes such a difference!  Mr Shimmin played a few tunes we recognised and also showed us how his instrument worked and some of the clever ways in which he can change the pitch of the sounds he is making. 

We are now enjoying spotting the French horns when we watch videos of the orchestra and hearing how they sound when played with other instruments.

Thank you!

Whole School Christmas Music Assembly

For the second year in a row we have attempted a whole school Christmas play-along.  This involves children from across the year groups all playing the same Christmas piece together.  We play two pieces (as we have to share instruments between classes): Jingle Bells and Little Drummer Boy.

If you listen carefully, you should be able to hear the following instruments:

Y1: percussion

Y2: boomwhackers

Y3: chime bars

Y4: ocarinas (harmony)

Y5: ukuleles

(Reception also performed one of their Christmas songs to the rest of the school.)

Jingle Bells Whole School

Little Drummer Boy Whole School

Assembly Singing

We have a singing assembly every Tuesday morning as a whole school, where we learn warm-up songs and other fun tunes.  This term we have sung a couple of songs which have some extra features to them, including body percussion patterns and some harmony and round singing.  This song which we have recorded is called ‘Wiggle Jiggle’ and is a song to brighten the day.  We hope you enjoy it!

To celebrate the coronation of King Charles III, the children of KHEF have been singing a joyful song called ‘Coronation Day.’  We hope you enjoy our singing and the celebrations this weekend!

Remembrance School Assembly

David the Vicar came in to talk about Remembrance, we listened to the poem, 'In Flander's Field' by John McCrae. We thought about things we remember and celebrate such as Diwali, Christmas and our birthdays. We then held a minutes silence, before each child in school laid a poppy that they had made, along the school corridor this was such an impressive sight.

Reading Celebration Assembly

We had our new half-termly Reading Celebration Assembly. Lots of children had achieved their targets last half-term, winning tokens for their house. Star Readers were also chosen from each class to recognise children who have excelled in reading through reading at home and making great progress.

We also had a fantastic number of children reaching the next word count bands. Samuel, Thomas and Denis have also become our first ‘Word Millionaires’, having read an amazing 1,000,000 words already this year! Hopefully, we will soon have lots more!

Sedgwick came first in the house competition for the number of points their house had earned, whilst Fitzwilliam came top with the highest %. In KS1 the Caterpillars had read the most words together on Optima 500, having read a brilliant 6,265 words, although Frogs were not far behind at 6,127.
Children should be bringing their certificates home with them. They have all done a fantastic job at their reading this half-term – well done King’s Hedges!

Science Assembly