Pupils had their school taken over for the day by the BBC after winning a national competition.

Denny Primary hosted staff from the BBC last Friday (27 March), including members of the Scottish Symphony Orchestra, a digital crew and a professional singer. The visit was a prize after the school’s primary 5’s won the BBC Ten Pieces project.

Ten Pieces was run throughout the UK and aims to open up classical music to children. Denny’s class were one of only two Scottish schools amongst the ten winners.

For the project, the class had to study ten classical pieces of music from well known and contemporary composers, including Beethoven and Mozart. The class had to compose their own piece based on one of the ten pieces and the pupils selected ‘Connect It’ by Anne Meredith. This involved writing lyrics and composing music whilst the Primary 5’s learn violin to add into the piece. When it’s completed it will be performed live in June 2015. 

Councillor Alan Nimmo, spokesperson for Education, said: “These pupils from Denny Primary have done brilliantly to win this competition considering its UK wide.

“Thanks to their hard work and musical talent, the entire school got to benefit from a visit by experts from the BBC.”

The BBC team were treated to a pupil performance of ‘Zadok the Priest’ by Handel before helping the children work on instruments, cameras and singing.