A music man called Mr Bright came to our school and worked with our class. First of all he showed all the children lots of instruments from around the world and he played them for us. I liked it when he played the Conga drums really fast. Then our class composed a piece of music. We all got to choose different instruments and he put us into different groups like metal and shakers and scrapers and drums. We had to decide when and how to play and we made symbols on the board to show the tune. We called the piece of music Chinese Prayers and Mr Bright recorded it and then we played to the rest of the school. It sounded wonderful. We were like proper musicians.

On a Monday our class goes over to Nelson House to play games with the residents and talk about what it was like in the old days. On Thursday afternoon Betty and Maggie and Joyce come to our school to do sewing with us. We have made puppets and Mexican Gods Eyes and some cross stitch pictures. I sewed a teddy and a boat and it was really fun. We even did some French and proper knitting. Last week we did some African weaving using lots of brightly coloured yarns. The ladies help us if we get stuck and they are very kind to us.

Our steelpan group went to play with the big pupils at Matthew Humberston School and then their group came to play at our school during global week. We learnt to play SuperTrouper and the Blind Date theme tune. Their pans are a lot bigger than ours and we had to use 2 sticks but we managed it and it sounded really good. When we practice we use a drum machine but this time we had a real drummer playing with us.