Tag: Music

This afternoon the children explored cal and responses in music. They used untuned percussion instruments to create responses to calls. Then they  composed calls and used notation to record their calls.

We have been learning to play musical instruments in Reception such as shakers, bells, wooden blocks and triangles. The children were taught the signals to play the instruments loud and quiet and fast and slow. We then played the instruments along with singing our favourite Nursery rhymes. 
 

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Over the last few weeks in Nursery we have been listening to different types of music and talking about how they make us feel - happy, calm, sad. Our favourite types of music have been the ones that make us feel happy and calm. 

We have also had a go at making marks on paper to show the type of…

Zozo returned for our final session learning and playing the African ‘Djembe’ drums. Zozo reviewed all the previous learning and celebrated the learning achieved.  Year 1 followed Zozo’s rhythms and copied the patterns.  Then Year 1 enjoyed listening to an African story where some children were…

Today we welcomed back Zozo to continue our learning playing African Drums. We learnt about the syllables in our names and used the Djembe (drums) to create the beats. We learnt how to hold an open hand position on the Djembe.  Zozo taught a new song about a chicken and we loved putting actions to…

We’re so proud of our choir for their wonderful performance on the CFM stage on Sunday 27th November at Egremont Christmas Wonderland. Thank you to everyone who came along to support and to Mrs Jacques for all her hard work in preparing them for this special community event.

Year 1 took part in an African Drumming workshop today with master drummer Zozo. The children explored authentic African music and stories. They were encouraged to use teamwork, expression and improvisation. In addition to this, they explored rhythms and had a whole lot of fun. Drumming and rhythm…

Year 5 have been learning how to play the Ukulele this year. They have learnt how to read music and were able to perform a selection of songs to the rest of the school. Everyone enjoyed listening to them.

Today, Year 4 participated in the Earthsong Project ‘River of Life’. This is a local arts project; a celebration of the river and our connection with the environment. A local composer (Dave Camlin) worked with Year 4 to generate ideas and lyrics for a song to be performed at Longlands Lake on…

Year 4 have been learning about ABBA in music. They are learning the lyrics to Mama Mia and enjoy a little bit of boogie while they sing a long. 
 

Our topic of Where the Wild Things Are has come to an end! We have used Story Telling Language to improve the words we use when we tell and write stories.  We have created environments that included islands and seaweed for magical creatures and had lots of fun thinking about Wild Things!  We…

In their music lessons Year 2 children have been listening to and appraising songs about friendship. As part of this work they have been learning to play the glockenspiel so they can accompany one of the friendship songs.