This year the children in Year 5 have been learning to play the steel pans with help from a great teacher, Lizzie. It has been a fabulous opportunity to look at a different musical instrument and play some great tunes. The steel pan originated in Tobago and...
In Music this term, we have focused our learning on the song ‘Round and Round’ by Joanna Mangona. We have enjoyed finding the beat and moving to the music before finding the notes C, D, E and F on the glockenspiels then playing along to the song.
Linked to exploring cultural differences today we had a the opportunity to explore the steel pans. We were then a super audience to Year 5 who shared a beautiful piece of music they have been learning on the steel drums.
We enjoyed learning some of our Round and Round song and began to practice using the glockenspiels to compliment our singing. We learned that glockenspiels have keys with different letters to show the note it will play. [contact-form][contact-field label="Name"...
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Listen to this video of our amazing Year 5 children playing 'Jingle Bell Rock' on the steel drums. I 'm sorry that it is not a video of the whole class, but there are several children who don't have permission to be on the website and I really wanted to capture and...
The children in Early Years took part in World Nursery Rhyme week, each day the children learnt a new nursery rhyme and performed them for their parents. Monday: The Big Ship Sails. The children created their own big ship when we went to Forest school using the...
We had a brilliant week learning about all 5 nursery rhymes and sharing them with our friends. We used the iPads to scan QR codes to listen to the rhymes too. We even gave our best ‘aarrrrr’ when pretending to be pirates!
This week we took part in world Nursery rhyme week with other children all around the world. Each day we had activities and stories linked to the Nursery rhyme. We even found out we are similar to a frog as we, just life frogs, are part of a life cycle. We also...
