We enjoyed finding the beat of different styles of music by clapping, marching, tapping and jumping.
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Music and movement
Each day we enjoy singing and story time where we develop our listening, attention and recall skills. We also listen to and talk in ‘Fred Talk’. This week we learnt a new song with lots of different ways of travelling.
Music Mark Members
We are proud to be Music Mark members and promote a love of music within our school. Our year 5 children are currently learning how to play the steel drums, during weekly, whole class music tuition. This will be extended to year 6 children next term.
Finding the beat
We had lots of fun finding the beat of different pieces of music and clapping, tapping, jumping and marching along to it. We found some songs easier to match the beat to than others.
Playing the steel drums
Steel Drums in Year 5
Year 5 are feeling very lucky today! We are delighted that we will be receiving steel drum tuition by a specialist music tutor. Today, we worked in small groups to familiarise ourselves with the instruments and musical vocabulary we will be using in our music lessons....
Music Madness!
Our new music unit focusses on the genre Rock. We will be listening to a range of songs throughout the unit. Today, we experience Bon Jovi. We were learning to listen for the pulse of the music, familiar instruments and make comments about what we thought of the...
Friendship Song
In Music this half term, we have focused our learning on ‘Friendship Song’ by Joanna Mangona and Pete Readman. We enjoyed finding the beat and moving to the music before finding the notes B, G, A and E and playing them on the glockenspiels in time with the music.
Happy Platinum Jubilee Her Majesty
This week we made cards for the Queen, explored money in Maths and learnt all about the United Kingdom including using the colours of our flag in baking cakes. To celebrate such a monumental event in British History we learnt a song about the Queens likes and jobs.
How can we read music?
Class 4B have been learning how to read musical notation to play tunes on our glockenspiels and xylophones. We learned the difference between crochets, minims and semibreves and how the position of a note on a stave denotes which note to play.