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Be Brave,
Be Brilliant,
Be our Best
Year 5
Summer 1: Zimbole
African music
Step 2: starting to learn SOLFA hand actions for do re mi - the tonic note is on G for this piece
Step 1: Body Percussion
Step 1: Introduction to Waka Waka and Mrs Williams was so impressed at this first try
Spring Term: English National Opera Composition Project
AJ presented Kingfishers Class piece at Great Oaks school for the ENO celebration.
Robins: Golden Eagles are the Highest
Kingfishers: Sparkling Sapphire
Puffins: Punching Purple
Puffins fininished composition: Punching Purple
Kingfishers composition: Sparkling Sapphire
Robins finished composition: Golden!
Step 5: Puffins table 5
Step 5: Puffins table 4 Yummy Vimto
Step 5: KF table 5 - Started so well - need to think about the ending next
Step 5: KF table 2
Step 4: Robins Golden Eagles are the Highest!
Step 4: KF table 3 juicy delicious blueberries
Step 4: KF table 3 - Coldy Winter
Step 3: Scuttling scorpions (and a little dance!)
Step 3: Juicy Delicious blueberries - good use of dynamics
Step 3: Good Vibes Vocals
Step 3: Golden Eagle Vocals
Step 2: Glistening Scales and claves
Step 1: investigating colour words
Step 1: We had a mysterious letter and received composer lanyards!
Introduction - recording and playing back Blob Opera
Introduction - we tried out Blob Opera. Here's some excellent practice
Pre-assessment - What do we know about Opera?
*Ava playing Jingle Bells
Jingle Bells Videos
Autumn 1&2: Our Topic is Rap
Kingfishers Rap: Life is short (make the most of it)
Puffins rap - Sports
Robins rap - Pets (a dog called Gerald?)
Robins Rap with excellent illustrations
Performances! Kingfishers table 1 could clap and rap
Performances! Kingfishers table 2 had a good grid where they thought about how they would perform
Performances! Puffins performed to Kingfishers class. Table 1 are budding rappers!
Performances! Puffins Table 3 coordinated body (table) percussion into their performance
Robins Rap
Week 8: Puffins Class refrain
Week 7: Refrains for our rap. We used the cardboard to restrict the pitch to notes we can sing
Week 7: Sport is Sport: let's play it!
Week 6: Kingfishers Class help Mrs Williams text mark while she also takes a video...
Week 6: Clapping the rap
Week 6: AJ made yet another freestyle rap!
Week 6: One table beat marked and chanted their rap
Week 5: Puffins and Kingfishers rap
Week 5: AJ's incredible rap about plants which he wrote himself.
Week 5: Bora wrote and illustrated an amazing rap for homework
Week 5: Our rhymes for "Life is short (Make the most of it)"
Week 5: Lukas's rap which we hope to use
Week 4: Vocabulary and rhymes generated by Puffins and Robins
Week 4: Logan was inspired to spontaneously rap with the vocabulary he generated
We think this is awesome!
Week 4: Andy wrote a rap especially for Year 5 at Bassett Green. He challenged pupils to put their hands up when they heard a word to do with school.
This type of rap is called freestyle because the rhymes aren't always at the end
Week 4: We helped Andy in his rap. When he said "Music Melody" we said "Words Weaponry" because words are powerful
Week 3: Adding vocabulary: Here are some great examples
Week 2: Our names in rhythm. What is the symbol next to Jude? Why?
Nathaniel ‘Life is a Blessing’
Our project leads on from the Rob Bradley workshops at Bassett Green. On Friday 2 December 2022 two rappers from Bassett Green released their debut tracks, recorded at MAST Music Studio. This track is about “inspiring people to keep trying hard, and to not give up on their dreams, no matter what happens to them.”
Pre week: Oliver playing the ostinato to Eyes Closed by Ed Sheeran
Be Brave,
Be Brilliant,
Be our Best