The end of term is here already and we are busy with the end of term performances. Its a busy couple of weeks but as usual, all the kids are doing really well and pulling out some great performances. Next week we will be finishing off the rest of the school performances and preparing for next term.

With it being the end of term, we have our Big Rock Academy during the holiday. This time taking place in Hanson High School in Bradford. This is going to be our biggest yet and we’re expecting it to be our best yet too!

We’d like to welcome back Ryan and Chelsea Cains who have been home in Australia since they got married in the summer last year. Its great to have them back on board.

Alongside the Big Rock Academies, we were running a free promotion week for our academy private tuition.  This was also a great success with 30 people booking in over 3 nights. If you missed out on it then keep your eye out for the next one in the summer/autumn!

Matt

Matt

Have a great weekend!

Matt

We’ve been back for a week now and its been in interesting start to the year with snow effecting many schools across Yorkshire.

Friday was the first day that schools were open for us so Idle was our first rock club of 2010!

We are busy planning for the year ahead and we have some exiting stuff in the pipelines! Also a few changes to staff as Mike moved on in December to persue his design career and new staff coming on board.

Here is to a massive and exiting year so we will see you on the road soon!

The YouPlayMusic staff

Anyway, it’s been a very busy term leading up to Christmas. Especially the last 4 weeks of the term as we have Jazzy and Rocky Christmas workshops running every day. Some of us…. (Joel)… are out every day teaching the children rocky and jazzy Christmas carols. Seeing as he’s been doing this since the last week in November he’s done well not to be sick of them by now!

Well we have some sad news……..Mike Harvie will be leaving us on the 18th of December. Mike has been a massive asset to the team since joining us back in March this year. Mike is the school’s coordinator and manages the team under John. We will be sorry to see him leave but wish him all the best in his new job. More on Mike in next week’s post.

Well have a great week and we will see you around over the next few days.

The YouPlayMusic team

Just under 3 weeks of term to go and today we began our Jazzy and Rocky Christmas workshops. All of the team are involved and working hard with the children. Its a busy season!

Last week was a busy week as we moved offices into next door. All of our teaching rooms have moved next door as well.

**Please note that our entrance is now on the main road**

There was a “slight” disaster….while we were moving a cabinet, a tin of bright pink paint leaked out all over our clean cream carpets…. There was a little panic to say the least as we had students coming in for lessons in 2 hours time. After a lot of scrubbing, blood, sweat, tears and hiring a carpet cleaner we managed to lift the bright pink stains!

To compliment our move we purchased a coffee maker to enjoy our Starbucks Christmas blend coffee. So if you’re in for a lesson, then feel free to make yourself a brew!

See you soon

YouPlayMusic

Matt, Dave and James spent the half term in Cavendish Primary School running a Big Rock Academy. The children did a great job and recorded 5 songs plus their own written songs. They also did a small performance to their parents who where really impressed with their progress.

Christmas is fast approaching and we’ve been on the gingerbread latte’s from starbucks to get us in the Christmas spirit…..Bit early we know but it has to be done!

We are working hard with all the children preparing for the end of term and the performances. All the children are doing really well and we are confident that the perfomances are going to be incredible.

So here’s to the next 6 weeks and plenty of gingerbread latte’s to help us along the way!

Everyone at YouPlayMusic

Its a long term leading up to chirstmas and all our workshops are in full swing and the children are doing a great job learning the songs in preparation for their performances.

Next week we will be in Cavendish primary school and Springwood Primary School for our Big Rock Academy’s over the half term.

Its a busy term but all the staff are working hard with a special thanks to Starbucks Coffee.

Hope to see you soon guys!

All at YouPlayMusic

Just thought i’d give a quick update on what we have been up to over the last week.

All week, our workshops were back in full swing. The kids have been really enjoying it and some that we had from last year have remembered a lot of what we taught them which is really great.

We also ran a 2 day workshop in Low Moor Primary School. Each class learned the song “I love rock & roll”. They had the opportunity to play drums and guitar and also sing. The recordings are now available online for download.

Its been a great start to the term so far and its only going to get better.

See you in school!

Matt