Advent Signs and Symbols

Posted 15th November, 2018

Check out the latest Advent offering from funkeemusic. This Advent Service for KS2 contains everything you need to put on an original and inclusive service with your children. As the introduction says the service makes the connection between the secular symbols we see all around us from November onwards and the 'reason for the season' ...the birth of Jesus Christ on the first Christmas Day. The mixture of old and new carols, poems, rhymes, stories and children's prayers and reflections... read more

Poppies

Posted 9th November, 2018

Just been playing for a very moving Remembrance service at St Joseph's RC School Hertford. The children were so respectful. They created their own prayers and performed poetry over the sound of Shostakovitch 8th String Quartet Ist Movement...a piece written after a visit to the bomb sites at Dresden. The children also sang a Sheila Wilson song 'Children want Peace' and funkeemusic's 'Poppies.' One of the parents said it was the most moving remembrance services she had ever been to. read more

Poppies

Posted 6th November, 2018

So delighted with the way the children at Abel Smith School and St Joseph's in Hertford are singing my 'Poppies' Song. read more