Vikings at Webster Primary School

Earlier in November, Camerata in the Community spent a week with Year 5 at Webster Primary School creating a musical about Vikings. The pupils at Webster created all the song lyrics and melodies themselves, along with the help of Camerata composer Richard Taylor, dramatist Anna Jewitt and ‘cellist Graham Morris. The story focused on Viking mythology and underlined that being a hero was about brains and knowledge as well as power and physical strength. They performed their finished piece to their parents, families and the Year 6 classes on Friday afternoon, and you can watch it on the schools’ YouTube profile here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl0bRzKdLCQ.

This project was part of a collection that we facilitate at Webster, including Curriculum Support, in which we are supporting every teacher in the school to embed creative music approaches in the curriculum.