Choir
Our choir is made up of children in Key Stage 2 who are passionate about singing. Mrs Ham leads the choir club after school every Thursday till 4.30pm. We have already taken part in a wide variety of singing events over the last couple of years such as:
- Our church for the Remembrance, Harvest, Advent and Mothering Sunday Services
- A world premier concert of famous composer David Mellor's 'Tragedy on Darwen Moor' at Blackburn Cathedral
- Whalley Abbey Cidari Christmas Celebrations
- Sing Together concerts at King George's Hall
- The Friends of St Barnabas Autumn Fireworks Festival
- Crown Paints Christmas Party
- Edward Bear Tots Playgroup at St Barnabas Church
- Over 50's group at Springvale Church
- The Young Voices concert at the MEN Arena in Manchester
- The Queen's 90th birthday garden party
- Singing for our local dementia group's Christmas party
- singing Christmas Carols in Sainsbury's
We have many more singing events planned for the upcoming year and are taking part in the 'Sing Together' project with Blackburn Cathedral. We will be performing again in a 'Sing Together' concert at King George's Hall on Monday 20th March 2017.
Singing at Whalley Abbey as part of the Cidari Christmas Celebration. What a beautiful venue!
We brought lots of festive cheer to the employees at Crown Paints. Thanks for inviting us Mr Devitt!
Thank you to our children who sang in the Toy Service in our church this Sunday. You all sang beautifully and make us very proud.
Welcome back to another exciting year of choir. Please take a look below at the events we will be taking part in this year.
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Event |
Date and Time |
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Sing Together Workshop |
Thursday 22nd September 10.45-11.45am |
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Harvest Festival in Church |
Sunday 2nd October 10.15 – 11.45am |
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School Harvest Festival in Church |
Friday 14th October 9.30 – 10.30am |
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Remembrance Church Service |
Sunday 13th November 10.15-11.45am |
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Sing Together Workshop
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Thursday 1st December 10.45-11.45am |
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Switching Crown Paints Lights on |
Tuesday 6th December?
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Toy Service in Church |
Sunday 4th December 10.15 – 11.45am |
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Carol Service in Church |
Sunday 11th December 3.45pm- 5.30pm |
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School Advent Church Service |
Thursday 22nd December 9.30- 10.30 am |
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Barnys’ Got Talent
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Friday 27th January 6.30pm |
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Sing Together Teacher’s Concert Blackburn Cathedral |
Saturday 28th January 7.00pm |
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Sing Together Workshop |
Thursday 9th February 10.45-11.45am |
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Sing Together Concert King George’s Hall |
Monday 20th March 6.00? TBC nearer the time |
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School Easter Church Service |
Thursday 13th April 9.30- 10.30am |
Super singing of 'Mambo Italiano' at our first Sing Together singing workshop with David and Ralph.
Some of our choir members sang in a special worship in church led by our WOW group.
Crossroads Children's Celebration
On Friday 9th September we have been invited to take part in a wonderful celebration organised by Blackburn Diocese from 10.00-12.00. Please try and learn the songs below as we will be singing them along with hundreds of other children from schools around our borough. Parents are very welcome to come along to show their support and take part.
Our God is a Great Big God.mp4
Alive (Hillsong Young & Free) with lyrics.mp4
My Lighthouse - Rend Collective - Lyrics.mp4
Jesus Hope of the Nations.mp4
Indescribable (with Lyrics).mp4
Hillsong One Way Jesus with lyrics.mp4
10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord) - Matt Redman (Best Worship Song Ever) (with Lyrics).mp4
Lion King Song Lyrics
I just can't wait to be King
Hakuna Matata
Circle of Life
Be Prepared
Can you feel the love tonight?
Here I Am Lord (Instrumental).mp4
I the Lord of sea and sky.mp4
Leavers Song Words
Leavers Song
Sing Lyrics
Sing- Instrumental
Nelson Mandela Tribute Medley
Believe
Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
A huge well done to our super choir as they sang beautifully and behaved impeccably at the Sing Together concert at King George's Hall. Thank you to all of the parents and grandparents who came along to support them.
Lovely singing from some of choir members today at our church Mothering Sunday service. Huge thanks to those who came along and sang so beautifully.
10 My Mum.wma
08 Don't forget (Mothers Day song).wma
Jeff and Matthew delivered a wonderful singing session this Thursday. They were amazed with how well our sing Together choir has learnt the songs and with their fantastic voices. We all had lots of fun and can't wait for the concert on Monday 7th March!
Mrs Ham and Mrs Rogers took part in a Teachers Sing Together concert on Saturday 23rd January at 7.00pm at Blackburn Cathedral. The audience brought food and toiletries for the local food bank.
Tickets for the Sing Together concert on Monday 7th March at King Georges Hall are now available from the KGH box office priced at £4.50 for adults and children are free but still require a ticket. The number for the box office is 01254 582579. Tickets are limited so please try to get them as soon as possible. We have been allocated our seats on stage and we are in the middle, slightly to the right so I'm sure you will be able to see us wherever you get your seats.
There are lots of tricky songs and hundreds of words for your child to learn so please ensure that they practise at home. The songs and words are all available below. Thank you :-)
Our Christmas sing along on the last day of term. Our teachers also entertained us by singing the twelve days of Christmas. Merry Christmas everyone!
On our last choir rehearsal of the year we had a Christmas party with party food, singing and dancing. It was a special treat to say thank you for the huge commitment that the choir have shown so far this year. Merry Christmas to our choir members and their families and we look forward to many more choir events next year.
Bringing Christmas cheer to shoppers in Sainsburys. We were all treated to juice and biscuits in the staff cafe too as they were so impressed with our singing :-)
Singing at the Crown Paint lights switch on!
We have lots of exciting events coming up over the next few weeks in the lead up to Christmas. The songs we will be singing are below for you to practise.
St Barnabas Christmas Markets- Saturday 28th November at 1.00-1.30pm.
Cidari Christmas Celebration- Tuesday 1st December at 5.30pm at Whalley Abbey
Crown Paints Light Switch On- Tuesday 8th December at 4.00pm at Crown Paints, Hollins Road
Toy Service- Sunday 6th December at 10.15am at St Barnabas Church
Carol Service- Sunday 13th December at 3.45pm at St Barnabas Church
Parents will need to provide transport for the children or arrange for them to get lifts with other parents please.
Please could you bring a Christmas hat to the Christmas Markets, Cidari and Crown Paints events. Thank You
Christmas Song Words
Christmas Hallelujah
Away in a Manger
Little Drummer Boy
Silent Night
Ding dong merrily on high
I saw three ships
Peace Song
We will remember song
One World Song
We had our first 'Sing Together' workshop this week with Gill and Ed from Blackburn Cathedral Outreach Service. We had great fun learning some new vocal warmups along with learning some new songs that we will be singing in a special concert at King Georges Hall on Monday 7th March 2016. Gill was really impressed with our beautiful singing and and impeccable behaviour. Well done everyone!
Our second event of the year was singing in our school Harvest Festival. You all sang beautifully!
Our first choir event this year was singing in church for the Harvest Festival. A huge well done as you sang beautifully. Thank you to everyone who came along to support them.
Young Voices 2015
We performed in a world premier performance of 'Tragedy on Darwen Moor' composed by David Mellor at Blackburn Cathedral. Our school was chosen specially due to our reputation of being great singers and the boys from the story attended St Barnabas church.
