The Year 6 Singing Shield

07.02.2025

Last week saw the Year Six girls participating in the annual ‘Singing Picture’ competition, in which every girl has to learn the nominated song and perform it as a solo in front of the Headmistress and the Director of Music.

The set piece this year was the first verse of the traditional hymn, ‘Morning Has Broken’, with the words by English author, Eleanor Farjeon, accompanied by the traditional Gaelic melody, ‘Bunessan’. The song presented notably challenging pitching demands as well as the need for lyrical and measured phrasing. We were excited to see all of the girls rising to these challenges with abundant musicality and control.

As always, it was very difficult for the judges to decide on the winners, but we had four girls who were specially mentioned, two girls who were commended, another two girls who were highly commended and one overall winner.

Well done to all girls in Year Six.