Music: Blog items
Date: 21st Nov 2024 @ 10:33am
Over the last few weeks, we been looking at the 'Rocking Romans'. We have listened and sang along to the song, “Oh, the strata of society” and performed the song "Boudicca" using percussion instruments. The children reneacted the sounds of gallopping horses and soldiers marching through Roman towns.
Date: 21st Nov 2024 @ 9:31am
In Year Three, the children have music lesson by a peripatetic teacher focusing on Samba music. The children enjoy playing a range of instruments and creating and playing musical rhythms and patterns.
Date: 20th Nov 2024 @ 4:49pm
Year 5 - African Drumming 2024
Date: 29th Oct 2024 @ 4:16pm
Today, all of the children in Year 5 were given an amazing opportunity to take part in an African drumming workshop. Pupils learned about the different percussion instruments from west Africa and had a go at playing a djembe - an African drum. We learned different dances and rhythms and performed what we had learned in an assembly at the end of the day to parents and carers. It was an amazing experience!
Reception Music this Half Term
Date: 20th Oct 2024 @ 5:08pm
This half term we have enjoyed singing Nursery Rymes and Action Songs. We have learnt a 'Hello Song' using Makaton to support our communication.
We really enjoyed learning the 'Owl Song' and 'Dingle Dangle Scarecrow' to help our learning across the curriculum.
We can now start and stop all together using instruments (Maracas and Claves) and we are beginning to find a steady beat.
What a fantastic start to Music in Reception!
Date: 17th Oct 2024 @ 9:07am
This half term in Music, we have been learning all about finding the steady beat in the music that we have been listening to. We have learnt lots of new musical vocabulary to help us when discussing what we can hear. We have had lots of fun playing a variety of notes on the glockenspiels and learning about one of our composers, Mozart. Our favourite lesson was learning how to play Twinkl, Twinkle Little Star on the glockenspiels.
Date: 16th Oct 2024 @ 4:47pm
This half term, we have enjoyed listening and appraising lots of different songs, trying to use the key musical vocabulary that we know from Year 1 and introducing some new vocabulary for Year 2. Throughout the unit, we have practised singing a range of songs and the glokenspiels.
Date: 10th Oct 2024 @ 2:29pm
Nursery have thoroughly enjoyed reading "We're Going on a Bear Hunt" by Michael Rosen. They can all join in beautifully with the story and loved using musical instuements to make the sound of swishy swashy grass and squelchy squerchy mud. They created some fabulous bear puppets, counted and sorted bears by colour and even baked some delicious bear paw print biscuits.
Date: 8th Oct 2024 @ 7:38pm
This week in Music, Year 5 performed the song 'Words Can Hurt'. We have been analysing the lyrics, looking at the structure of the composition and then practising hwo to perform as a group.
The song has meant a lot to us as it has lead to some excellent discussions about how words can hurt our Mental Health just as much as physical pain. Some of us even performed some role plays about how to act kindly and with respect - following the Boundary Always Promises.
Date: 1st Oct 2024 @ 11:48am
Today we were improvising and composing!
We started by using the glockenspiels and to improvise using a these note options:
C, D, E
C, D, E, F, G
We improvised using these 5 notes by making up a pattern of rhythm and melody of our choice – after some experimental time.
We then wrote down our preferred ostinato accurately on stave paper using the notes above, crotchets, minims, quavers. Finally we practiced playing this section for ourselves, then those who choose to, performed their improvised piece for the class.
Date: 26th Sep 2024 @ 4:43pm
In Music, Year Three were very excited to use the glockenspiels. They enjoyed moving from the bar notes to the bigger instruments and learning all about the different sharp and flat notes. We did some listening and repeating of tunes and thought about how many notes we needed to play in a bar.
Date: 20th Sep 2024 @ 1:28pm
Acorns have been busy learning all about me, over the last couple of weeks.
We have been reading This is me and From Head to Toe.
We have had lots of fun developing our understanding through music and exploring our faces and how our bodies move with mirrors.
We have been exploring mark making and making faces during arts and crafts.
Using visuals and Makaton to support our understanding.
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Date: 19th Sep 2024 @ 9:33am
The children in year 5 have been learning to sing the song, 'Ghost Parade'. They have sang together and created their own musical melodies to accompany the song. Pupils experimented with different notes, timings and volume during the performances.
Date: 19th Sep 2024 @ 9:13am
This week, Year 4 recapped a song they learned in previous music lessons, 'Hoedown Throwdown'. The children then performed parts of the song on a glockenspiel. By the end of the lesson, Year could play a portion of the song together at the same tempo!
Date: 6th Sep 2024 @ 8:48am
This week we started our Music unit looking at soul music. We listened to and appraised the song 'Do What You Want To!' and discussed the elments of music surrounding the song: tempo, dynamics, texture, lyrics etc.
Date: 5th Sep 2024 @ 9:12am
We started our Music learning in Year 3 by recapping the Elements of Music. We reminded ourselves of the key vocabulary: tempo, allegro, adagio, texture and melody.
We then listened to a country song called 'Home is where the heart is' and used the listening mats to help us describe what we could hear. We also compared it with the Dolly Parton piece, 'Jolene'.
The next part of our journey will be focusing on pitch and structure as we learn to sing 'Home is where the heart is'.
Date: 25th Jun 2024 @ 3:39pm
Last week, we celebrated Music and Art day all about celebrating our identity. In Art, we explored portraits and representing ourselves in portrait form. We practiced different mark making techniques that would help us when drawing before identifying shapes on our faces. Then we used all our knowledge to draw and colour a portrait. In music, we created a lemotif in small groups that represents us.
Date: 23rd Jun 2024 @ 7:44pm
On Friday the children enjoyed a Music and Art day! We loved thinking about our identify for Art and making links to our hobbies, likes and memories when painting our self portrait.
In Music, we listened to a range of songs and made notes on their styles. We learnt about Jazz scatting and loved singing in this style! We also tried our hand in syncopation.
Date: 23rd Jun 2024 @ 5:27pm
This year's theme for Music Day was connection! We had a fantastic day learning about syncopated rhythms. We clapped our own rhythms to a nursery rhyme and then created syncopated rhythms with body percussion and a range of different instruments.
Date: 21st Jun 2024 @ 4:02pm
This week Reception celebrated Music Day.
They sang songs independently, learnt how to sing using call and response and also sang at a higher pitch. They then danced in time to the music using their bodies to move rhythmically.
Take a look at our photos!
Year 2- Exploring Improvisation
Date: 22nd May 2024 @ 7:37am
This half term in Music, we have been exploring improvisation. Throughout the unit, we have listened to and appraised different styles of music as well as learning to sing songs, improvise using body percussion instruments and perform different pieces in small groups and as a whole class.
Date: 14th May 2024 @ 7:19pm
Over the past couple of weeks, Year 4 have listened, appraised and practised to sing 'Oh Happy Day.' Firstly, we listened to the song and then compared it to the version that was sung in the film 'Sister Act.' Then, we split into two groups and learnt to sing the song.
Date: 9th May 2024 @ 10:40pm
Wednesday is Dance Studio day! During our time in the dance studio we practise our Squiggle While You Wiggle moves using pencils and paper and use the parachute. There are so many ways to use the parachute to support the childrens developement. We have been singing songs and moving with the parachute to add actions to the songs. We also play games that develop the children's listening and attention and support their social communication skills.
Date: 26th Apr 2024 @ 11:23am
Over the last few weeks the children in Reception have been using the Boomwhackers to explore sound and pitch. We worked together to count them and place them in order from the lowest sound to the highest sound. The children enjoyed explring the different sounds and making different different tunes.
"This shortest boomwhaker its the highest" Alaiya
"I've have the lowest sound" Sid
Date: 26th Apr 2024 @ 9:34am
This week, Year 4 have listened and responded to 'O Euchari.' We discussed the Medieval style of music and where it sat on the music timeline. Then, we learnt all about the life of Hildegard of Bingen, the composer of 'O Euchari,' and why her music was so different to others of that era. We walked around the classroom to find interesting facts about her life and created a class mindmap using post it notes.
