Music: Blog items
Date: 5th May 2023 @ 2:04pm
We are a part of history this weekend! Today we celebrated King Charles III's Coronation. We have learned about the history of coronations and what happens during the ceremonies, as well as singing the National Anthem and the Coronation Song. We played some 'Regal Games' including croquette, the king's four corners and the royla court tin can alley. We had a wonderful roya lunch together with sandwiches and cakes - and we wore our crowns which we made yesterday! Then we did some royal quizzes and made a collage of all things royal using King Charles III's silhouette.
Year 4 - King Charles III's Coronation Song
Date: 18th Apr 2023 @ 3:43pm
Today we started to learn the song for King Charles III's Coronation Day in May. We listened and appraised it using our brilliant musical vocabulary and then we started to have a go at singing it.
Year 3- George Frederick Handel
Date: 3rd Apr 2023 @ 8:26am
In music, we explored the composer George Frederick Handel. We started by using black pen to mind map what we found out about him. We then listened to the piece Zadok the Priest. We added information about this in different colours and used our music mat to help. We then linked this to the upcoming coronation of King Charles and created our own coronation day chant.
Boundary Budding Stars round-up!
Date: 24th Mar 2023 @ 1:07pm
After running so many amazing clubs this year, we hosted our first Boundary Budding Star's Showcase evening where pupils from across school performed.
Talented pupils from Reception to Year 6 showed us their skills in drama, dance and song with Ballet Club, Bollywood, Schools Alive, Samba and Choir all performing brilliantly. Year 5 showed us their Tempest performance from the Grand Theatre and Key stage 1 music Club sang too.
Thank you to all our wonderful children for taking part and for the support and encouragement of their parents and carers!
Date: 24th Mar 2023 @ 8:16am
This half term in Music we have been doing lots of listening and describing using our Music Mats. We have been using appropriate musical vocabulary such as tempo, pitch, beat, rhythm and dynamics. This week we have been using the glockenspiels to compose and transcribe our own music in response to the song Helping Each Other. We have been writing down the notes and the names so that we can play it back again next week.
Date: 23rd Mar 2023 @ 8:16pm
Over the past few weeks some of the children from Reception have been attending ballet club. They have been working extremly hard to practice their ballet dance to the music 'Sugar Plum Fairy'. The children listened carefully, worked as a team and demonstrated lots of our Boundary characteristics. The made sure they pointed their toes and moved elegantly in time to the music. The children performed their dance at our Boundary Budding Stars event infront of approximately 120 parents and carers. They did a very a fantastic job. We are very proud of each and every one of them.
Key Stage Choir perform at Choir of the Year!
Date: 21st Mar 2023 @ 7:55am
Date: 16th Mar 2023 @ 4:22pm
Today we celebrated the achievements of Lola and Callum, some of our KS2 Drummers. They achieved Blackpool Music school Medals in Gold and Silver for their committment and learning in drumming. They attend weekly Peri lessons in school and we are very proud of them! Well done!
Date: 16th Mar 2023 @ 3:01pm
Today in Music, Year Two continued to explore the key question 'How does Music make the world a better place?' by exploring different instruments and songs. We practised singing the songs I am the music man and hands, feet, heart as well as comparing different music from around the world. Lastly, we listened carefully to different instruments playing and had to identify the instrument it came from.
Date: 16th Mar 2023 @ 11:24am
Nursery took part in science day by exploring space through art, maths and music. They created a wonderful piece of collaborative art work showing a super outer space scene. They then created their own space pictures. Using shapes, the children then made some 3D rockets. They thought carefully about the shapes they would need and where to put them. To end the day, the children enjoyed a space themed music session. They sang "Zoom, Zoom, Zoom" and sent planets soaring in to the air using the parachute!
Year 4 - Music 'Old Joe Clark' improvising
Date: 14th Mar 2023 @ 6:49pm
We started the lesson with a recap of Old Joe Clark and musical vocabulary such as beat, staccato, legato, crotchet, quaver, minim, semibreve, dotted minim, tone (major and minor) and ostinato. Then we finished our own compositions on our manuscript paper. We composed using all of the notes on the stave, trying to keep 4 beats in a bar, made up of crotchets. We labelled the stave to know which notes to play and practiced our piece with the backing track Old Joe Clark. We then listened to individual performances.
Date: 10th Mar 2023 @ 4:20pm
Today, alongside the whole school we celebrated Science Day with our theme of Space and year two were tasked with learning about the sun. We begun the day by watching videos about the sun and learnt lots of facts including: it would take 20 years to fly to the sun from Earth, the sun is the centre of the solar system, Earth orbits the sun and completes 1 full orbit every year and the sun is actually a star made up of gases. We recorded our information on strips of card and stuck them down as sun rays beaming out of our big sun in the middle. Next, we used our new knowledge of obitting to model how the Earth orbits the sun and the moon orbits the Earth and learnt it takes 28 days for the moon to orbit the Earth- our models also helped us imagine the size difference between the sun, moon and Earth. The excitement continued as we visited the space wonder dome exploring stars, the sun, the moon and all the other planets which we named. We also were fully immersed and amazed by exploring what it would look like and feel like in space. During the afternoon, we got more creative listening to two pieces of space themed music- the final countdown as well as Holst Venus and appraised them. We also thought about the similarities and differences between the two pieces of music. Lastly, we ended our exciting day by creating our own sun art using different techniques including pointilism to complete our paintings.
Date: 10th Mar 2023 @ 3:37pm
What a day! Today we celebrated Science day with a focus on space. We were lucky enough to have the brilliant Wonderdome visit our school for an amazing space experience. The children absolutely loved it. Throughout the day each year had their own focus from astronauts to constellations. Not only did we learn many scientific facts, we also created beautiful art, pieces of writing and listened to space themed music.
Date: 10th Mar 2023 @ 12:53pm
Today in music we were listening to some songs about animals ready for our trip to the Zoo. We played the glockenspiel to the Big Bear Funk which was lots of fun and started to think about how to play the notes nicely. We sang the song Lets go to the Zoo and did the actions.
Date: 10th Mar 2023 @ 11:25am
Our focus for this year's science day was space. We recapped on everything we knew about planets from our lessons in Year 5, before moving on to learn about constellations. We listened to space themed music including the Planets by Holst and Space Odessy by David Bowie. Finally, we created constellation art work. A great day!
Date: 10th Mar 2023 @ 10:21am
Science day ! First we listened to Gustav Holst- The Planets, Full Suite. We thought about how the song was structure and what ‘personality’ it gave us of the planets. Then we listened to Muse- Starlight.
Date: 9th Mar 2023 @ 3:01pm
In Music, we have been improving to the song 'You're a Shining Star' using the notes GABCD. We worked in beats of 5 and performed to the rest of the class. We worked hard to stay in time with the music.
Date: 21st Feb 2023 @ 8:05pm
Earlier in the term we did some music around Chinese New Year, we selected the instruments from the percussion trolley to represent the animals and played them loudly and softly.
We have been doing lots of singing of a variety of nursery rhymes including Hey Diddle Diddle, Pop goes the Weasel, Have you ever seen a Penguin come to tea and Baa Baa Black sheep. We have been learning the names of the percussion instruments and learning the vocabulary of beat, tempo (fast and slow) and dynamics (loud and soft).
Date: 20th Feb 2023 @ 7:01pm
In Music this week we have focussed on using Chrome Music Lab to create our own piece of music. We had to create something that fits in with the theme of disco as this is what we have been listening to.
Date: 17th Jan 2023 @ 1:30pm
We had a great morning learning without pens or writing! We talked about how the music made us feel for the song 'Freedom is Coming', using the vocabulary for the listening mats. We played the glockenspiels and percussion instruments, and performed the accompaniment to the song.
In French we sang and recapped the months of the Year. We cut/stuck the months of the year in order. We spoke in french and started to put together the phrase, 'Mon Anniversaire est...' using the days and months.
Date: 13th Jan 2023 @ 3:50pm
Today we started our new music topic. We began by revisiting the elements of music, including tempo, dymnamics, texture, pulse etc. Then we listened to the song 'Disco Fever' and discussed it together. We broke down the song into how it was arranged (structure) and which instruments were used to create the song. At the end of sesison we began to sing the song - we will continue with learning it next week.
Date: 15th Dec 2022 @ 10:23am
Nursery put on a super performance at out annual Christmas Sing-along. The children worked so hard to learn a selection of Christmas songs, learnt how to sign along to "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" and used a variety of instruments to accompany the songs. It was lovely to see so many parents and grandparents at the sing-along and they even enjoyed a tasty mince pie at the end of the performance.
Date: 2nd Dec 2022 @ 1:33pm
During Music in Year 5 we have been learning lots about the musical vocabulary and how to use it to describe the pieces of music we listen to. We have been composing on Charanga as well as on the musical score using crotchets, minims and quavers. We did a Menti quiz to see what we had learned and began to practise playing Deck the Halls for Christmas on the Glockenspiels.
Year 3 Listening and performing in Music
Date: 30th Nov 2022 @ 4:24pm
In Year 3 we have been doing lots of listening and describing with our new Musical Vocabulary mats. We have discussed the key vocabulary and thought about how we can use it to describe the pieces of music that we have listened to. We have improved our use of sentence starters because we now have examples. We have started to think about our Christmas songs and have begun to learn about the musical score, treble clef and time signature. We started to play the glockenspeil to Jingle Bells!
Year 1 Musical Listening and Composing
Date: 30th Nov 2022 @ 4:06pm
In Year 1 we have been doing lots of listening to different types of music. We used our new Musical Listening Mats to think about the tempo, pitch and how the music made us feel. We also started composing using Chrome Music Lab and understood that different patterns and marks represent different notes and sounds. We made our own ostinato patterns which repeat. We have been playing percussion instruments in time to the music and learning the names of other common instruments.
