Music: Blog items
Nursery and The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Date: 25th Apr 2024 @ 11:25am
We have been reading the story "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle. The story is brilliant for teaching the children the days of the week, counting and exploring the life cycle of the butterfly. The children have been busy outside looking for caterpillars - we haven't found any yet! We have leanrt the caterpillar starts with a "C" and thought of other things that start with a "c". The children have also enjoyed leanring a new song that teaches us about the liec cycle of a butterfly.
Year 5 - Music in our Community
Date: 18th Mar 2024 @ 9:27am
This half-term, Year 5 have been working to answer the question 'How Does Music Teach Us About Our Community?'. We have discussed heroes in our community; from our parents and carers to people who volunteer to help the homeless - we agreed that they were all heroes in their own right.
In what was one of our favourite lessons we listened to and appraised the Star Wars theme composed by John Williams - and with our keen musical ears we suggested, researched and discovered that he had composed some of the scores for our favourite films including Home Alone and Indiana Jones!
Discussions have raised how much music can affect our emotions and attitudes and how much a piece of music can be used to help us think of a particular place, person or event within our community. Our challenge now is to think about a piece of music that could describe Boundary or even Grange Park!
Date: 12th Mar 2024 @ 12:24pm
Some of the children have been enjoying taking part in Ballet Club on a Tuesday after school. We have been learning the importance of stretching and warming our bodies up so we down get injured. We talked about keeping our legs and arms straight and pointing our toes. We are learning the different ballet positions including first, second and third position and even learnt how to do a demi-plie.
Date: 28th Feb 2024 @ 1:06pm
In music, Year 3 have been looking at playing, improvising and composing using the glockenspiels. The children planned out their compositions using beats and used the notes GABCD in their compositions.
Date: 9th Feb 2024 @ 8:10am
We are so proud of all the children who took part in this year's Schools Alive hosted by Blackpool Music Service supported by Friends of BMS and held at the Winter Gardens Blackpool. Their 'School of Rock' performance ROCKED! 🎵🎵🎸🎸🎤🎤
Date: 5th Feb 2024 @ 7:28pm
This half term Reception have been singing songs, using actions and reinforcing their learning of how to keep a steady beat whilst exploring different instruments, such as the glockenspiel and the maracas. They have learnt to follow instructions as to when to pick up and play the instrument as well as playing it in time with the music.
Acorn class also enjoyed joining in with the learning too.
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Date: 30th Jan 2024 @ 12:21pm
Nursery really enjoy our music session. The children get to explore different instruments, learn to keep a steady beat and learn to take turns they pass the instruments round. The children also love to get up and dance to the music.
Date: 25th Jan 2024 @ 11:35am
In this music journey, pupils are learning about South African protests songs. These are usually a fussion of different musical genres; especially jazz, gospel and pop music. Pupils learned the words of a song called, 'Freedom is Coming' and sang, whilst other children improvised a melody using pitched percussion instruments.
Date: 23rd Jan 2024 @ 10:47am
Year 3 got to experience Travelling by Tuba, an interactive musical trip through the year ! The children loved looking at all the different instruments and hearing the amazing music!
Date: 19th Jan 2024 @ 3:43pm
This week we had a visit from two amazing musicians. We were taken on a musical trip around the world, listening to different instruments and learning about musical styles from different cultures. The children really enjoyed the assembly and learned more about music appreciation.
Date: 19th Jan 2024 @ 7:58am
Today, we had a very exciting from Travelling by Tuba. Alongside the rest of our school, we began the day with an assembly, where we were introduced to lots of different instruments from around the world. In the afternoon we then took part in a workshop with Chris and Stewart who helped us create a Mexican Samba. We learnt how to play each instrument before working in groups to play the correct rhythm in time we the music. We then put all our learning together to create our final performance!
Date: 18th Jan 2024 @ 1:42pm
Today, we had a special visit from Stuart and Chris from Travelling by Tuba. We started the day with an exciting assembly where we were introduced to lots of different instruments from across the world including: the didgeridoo, a horn, the tuba and other interesting instruments. They also showed us how they are played. Then we participated in a workshop where we created a Brazillian Samba using triangles, tambourines, bells, scrapers, shakers and maracas. We learnt all the different rhythms of each instrument and practiced them on our arms before we split into groups and practiced playing the correct rhythm on the instruments. Finally, we did a performance using our instuments all playing in unison. We had a fantastic morning and loved it!
Date: 17th Jan 2024 @ 7:41am
This morning we had lots of fun learning without the aid of a pen/pencil. We started off the day with our music lesson. We used the glockenspiels to learn how to play the backing track to ‘We All Sing A Song’. This song had three notes, ‘F, G. A’ which we had to listen to and then repeat back. This was is the style of the Waltz.
After, during our PHSE lesson, we learnt about all the hazards that you would find around the home. We worked in small groups, using our oracy skills, to explain why each picture may or may not be a hazard. We all had the opportunity to give a reason for their picture while the other children listened to their answers.
In our PE session we explored different ways of moving to begin to create a winter dance.
Nursery Sing Christmas Sing Along
Date: 20th Dec 2023 @ 1:23pm
Nursery put on a very festive sing along in our garden this week. We invited our families and we had a lovely time singing the Christmas songs we have been busy learning. The children sang brillinatly and gave everyone some Christmas cheer!
Date: 12th Dec 2023 @ 6:57pm
What a lovely community event we attended this evening - the Walking Nativity. The choir performed two songs and played a part in acting out the Christmas story with our friends from Christ the King ⭐🎶
Key Stage 2 Choir Perform at Abingdon Street Market
Date: 8th Dec 2023 @ 10:37am
Date: 7th Dec 2023 @ 2:53pm
Year 3 have been looking at a range of styles of music and this week explored the artist Grazyna Bacewicz’s who hid seecret messages in her music during the Second World War! It was A musical message of hope, with the Morse code for ‘V’, symbolising victory, (dot dot dot dash) beaten out on the timpani during the piece. The children composed their own pieces usinfg the percussion trolley using morse code.
Date: 1st Dec 2023 @ 9:12am
A few times a week, we gather in a circle for 'Music Circle Time'. Sensory activities is of great importance to our children. Just as taste, textures and colours aid a child's sensory development, so does music. The children love using the maracas and drum tambourines as we encourage them to keep the beat to a particular piece of music. The children love to explore with the maracas, and get the cause and effect of shaking it softly or vigoursly.
Date: 28th Nov 2023 @ 9:01pm
During our RE sessions this half term, Year Two have been studying Christianity and what Christians mean when they say that Jesus is 'the light of the world'. We explored a Christingle and what each part represents before making our own Christingles. We then gathered together in the hall to light our Christingles and have a collective moment of reflection. We also sang the Christmas carols, 'Silent Night' and 'Do you hear what I hear?' whilst considering the meaning behing their lyrics.
Date: 24th Nov 2023 @ 7:53am
Our lovely choir performed at @thegrange's Christmas lights switch on event. It was their first festive performance and they have lots more community events planned in December.
Date: 18th Oct 2023 @ 4:05pm
This week Year Three listened to the song ‘ Lets work it out together’ again and discussed creating a composition that goes along with it. We used YUMU and looked at note length and varying it throughout our pieces.
Year 6 - Composing with Computers
Date: 17th Oct 2023 @ 3:50pm
For the last two lessons we have used Charanga YUMU to compose and electronically transcribe our own composition using a 5-note set treble clef stave.
We reviewed our knowledge of note values and durations and created our own compositions using a mixture of crotchets, minims, dotted minims and semibreves. Some of us were able to create an ostinato (a repeating musical phrase).
Date: 10th Oct 2023 @ 5:38pm
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 a whole school assembly at the end of the day. What an amazing experience!
Date: 6th Oct 2023 @ 3:59pm
This half term, Year 2 have been enjoying their Music lessons as we have explored different genres and had the opportunities to play a variety of instruments. We have been focusing on learning key vocabulary including: pulse, rhythm, dynamics, tempo and ostinato. This half term, we have learnt the song 'Music is in my soul' as well as 'Hey Friends' both of which we loved the meaning of. We have also had the opportunity to play and improvise to these songs using glokenspeils as well as a range of percussion instruments. Last week, we learnt the term 'scatting' and found it funny to make up our own words and say it repetitively to a beat.
Date: 11th Sep 2023 @ 8:09pm
Today, we focused on performing. To start the lesson, we recapped the elements of music focusing on our vocabulary words. Learn to sing the Hoedown again, recap context. Then after a little warm up of our voices we learned to sing ‘Hoedown’.
We focused on:
- Learning to sing the song as part of an ensemble/choir
- Following a leader/conductor
- Understanding the meaning of the song
- Demonstrating and maintain correct posture and breath control
- How do we sing at our best? Standing and with air in our lungs. How can we sing in unison?
