On 21st November 2017, My School CD spent the day with Talbot House Preparatory School recording their first Christmas CD with us.

They recorded some lovely traditional Christmas songs including Jingle Bells, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and Silent Night and ran an artwork competition in school for the children to design the CD cover. You can see the winning artwork designs below.

As part of their project, we also gave Talbot House Preparatory School a free 30-player Monkey Drum Set.

On 17th October 2017, My School CD spent the day in Dorset, recording a whole school CD for St Catherine's Catholic Primary School. As part of their project, the school received a free 30-player African drum and percussion set.

We've received some lovely comments from Sarah Kernick, the school's music co-ordinator, about their experience recording a CD with us:

On 15th November 2016, My School CD spent the day with Upton Infant School in Dorset recording songs with each class and the whole school.

Here is what Rebecca Gdesis, the school's music co-ordinator said about their recording day:

"Today was an exciting first at Upton Infant School. We were visited by a professional sound engineer to record our super singing! He brought lots of special equipment with him, spent time with each year group and joined us for our singing assembly to record our whole school songs. The money raised from the CD sales will go towards replacing playground equipment.

As part of making our school CD, we have been sent a set of African class percussion instruments. They are really beautiful and unlike any other instruments we have already, so will be very useful, especially when our Year 1 groups do their African topic.

Thank you very much to My School CD for this experience".

On 15th June 2016 we spent the day recording Paddox Primary School's CD.

Here's some feedback we received from Charlotte Maloney from Paddox Primary School who worked with us to complete what has been a fantastic project:

"Wow! What a great project to be part of! Today, I have doubled my car journey because I couldn't stop listening to the CD on the way home from work.

The sound engineer has done a great job of recording the children and editing the tracks to make sure they sound great. I was particularly impressed with the echo he used for soloists and the fade in/fade out effects for some of the songs.

The project has run smoothly and efficiently with little work needed from school staff. The letter templates are easy to adapt and send out and if you follow the step-by-step instructions you can't go wrong. A great addition to the project was the artwork competition- the children loved designing a front cover and their competition entries have made a great school display. 

The recording day was great fun for both children and staff. It really helped to create a sense of community by bringing everyone together to sing.

Overall, it was a great project and I would definitely recommend it to other schools!'

Charlotte Maloney, Paddox Primary School, Rugby