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I teach ukulele in St Finian's Primary School, Newcastle Co Dublin. I see the fifth classes (there are two of them) for half an hour each, then the two sixth classes for half an hour each. After that, the thirty ukuleles get carefully packed away in their cardboard boxes and stored in the staff room till next week's class.

You might think that they wouldn't get far without having the instruments to practise on, but they do!

I've written a song for the sixth classes to sing (half of them singing, half of them playing, though I think there are a good few that will be able to sing and play as well). We are booked for the school carol service in two weeks' time.

Here it is. They are to combine the choruses ('Winter Evening" and "All November") at the end, as I've kind of sketched in on the recording. I haven't got as far as double-tracking on YouTube uploads yet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut6rywNxyag

And I was wondering in that other thread what you were doing in a primary school.

Have any parents asked you about buying instruments, so the kids can practise at home?

Very nice!

Thanks, Gno! Very easy too http://ukeireland.com/pdf-chords/winterevening.pdf

Not yet, TC, but I expect a few Christmas sales might result ... a few kids have ukes already, but the school ones are better: Brunswick & Lanikai, more expensive than my own.