Music

Current Music 

  • School Musical: Dec 2022-Our first school musical since 2019 was staged on Dec 8th 2022 ‘The Adventures of Superstar’, involving the 40 children in the school, across all classes.
  • Music Generation in school 2022-2023
    Sep-Dec 2022: Senior classroom are learning the Ukulele with Gavin Murphy, musician & teacher working with Music Generation Sligo (12 week programme)
  • Jan 2022 for 12 weeks, The children in the junior classroom are participating in a music exploration course with Music Generation Sligo
  • Tin Whistle Classes
    All classes from 2nd to 6th are participating in weekly tin-whistle classes with June McCormack, our principal, who is an accomplished traditional Irish musician. http://www.draiochtmusic.com
  • School Musical Dec 2019-We staged our 2019 musical ‘What’s the Crime Mr Wolf’ on Tue Dec 17th  in Cliffoney Hall.

 

Our 2022-2023 Musical is  ;The Amazing Adventures of Superstar

We staged our Musical in December and had a wonderful performance in Cliffoney Hall in mid December. All classes enjoyed participating in this musical.

Winter 2019 Musical Events

Porridge – Dec 2018

A few snippets from our December musical ‘Porridge. .

Enjoy!.

 

School Musicals

We do a school musical on an annual basis, in time for Christmas. Children spend the months of November and December preparing for this, learning songs, learning our lines, learning how to act and dance.

Our junior classroom teacher Clodagh Finnegan directs our musicals and is a very talented drama teacher.​

Musicals we have performed include;

  • “The Adventures of Superstan’- Dec 2022
  • ‘What’s the Crime Mr. Wolf’ – Dec 2019
  • Porridge- Dec 2018
  • Ye – Haw- Dec 2017,
  • OINK- Dec 2016,
  • ‘Hoodwinked’ (December 2015),
  • Aladdin Trouble Panto (Dec 2014)
  • ‘Cinderella Rockerfella’ (Dec 2013), ‘Scrooge’s A Christmas Carol’ (Dec 2012)​

Tin-Whistle Performance

Children from the senior room have been learning the tin-whistle in class since September. They recently performed this polka at our concert in December.