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Be Brave,
Be Brilliant,
Be our Best
Year 1
Summer 2: My Paper Boat - Sea, sand and song!
We are making music based on the show we are seeing at school this term
Step 3: We watched "Mercy, Mercy Me" by Marvin Gaye and made our own class composition from recycled materials. This is Otters Class
Step 2b: High and low composition - working as a pair
Step 2a: Composition using large and small coloured animals to make low and high notes.
Step 1b - percussion instruments to make a storm - Frogs class
Step 1: Body percussion to make a storm!
Summer 1: The Great Fire of London
Do you know any songs about this?
What do you think we will be doing in our music lessons this term?
Step 6: We can sing in a round
Step 5: Frogs composition with added dynamics - first try
Step 4: Otters Class first try out of instruments to make a fire composition. We need to add dynamics next time for more effect
Step 3: part 3 Alice's flowing composition.
Step 3: Mason tried so hard with correct finger position. Singing as well was very hard
Step 3: more than one finger, a first try for Ysabella. We found it quite tricky!
Step 3: part 1 - learning D. Here is table 4, Otters Class. Lovely singing from everyone else
Step 2: First try of the ocarina, playing D gently, like a flowing river
Step 1: Frogs class playing loud and quiet, conducted by Devvon
Step 1: playing a flame loud and quet, conducted by Youssra
Spring 2: Animals: timbre and texture
Step 5 - performance from Otters Class in their habitat
Step 4: Otters Class Body Percussion
Step 4: Frogs class body percussion
Step 3: This group tried plucking some of our string instruments
pupils playing stringed instruments
Step 3: Washay can confidently shake it using a rhythm!
Step 2: Otters class decided these instruments can be played in a scratchy way
Step 2: Frogs class decided these instruments can play in a bouncy way
Step 1: Frogs Class making animal noises for a farm habitat
Step 1: EP Frogs class making African animal sounds together
Spring 1: The Dot - using elements of music in composition
Step 6: Lucy playing her composition
Step 6: Ella playing her composition
Step 5: Excellent practice writing a graphic score composition
Step 5: Excellent practice writing and performing dynamics
Step 4: Excellent practice knowing and playing duration on online keyboard
Siena showed what she had made and Mrs Williams created it online!
Step 3: Excellent Practice playing our dot rhythms
Step 2: Excellent Practice Frogs Class forte and piano (loud and quiet). Playing quietly is much harder!
Step 2: Excellent practice from Siena, where we had to guess whether she played forte or piano
Step 1 - excellent practice playing the pitch we have written on the glockenspiel
Step 1 - excellent practice recognising pitch on the glockenspiel and writing it down
Pre-assessment - Class ideas as to how we could make a dot into a musical composition...
Autumn 2 Topic: Toys in Space
Gustav Holst - Mars the Red Planet
Week 5: Francisco and Lucy Part 3 - the computer plays their composition
Week 5: Francisco and Lucy part 2 - recording Found Sounds on Audacity
Week 5: Francisco and Lucy Part 1 - experiment with Found Sounds
Week 4: Making rocket launches from low to high on Google Chromelab Melody Maker
Week 3: This group created the phrase "We are the Superheores" with the claves. David's counting in is fantastic and enthusiastic
Week 3: Creating own rhythms with percussion
Woodbloocks from the other class
Week 2: We understand the notes go from C up to G
Week 2: Another group's rocket launch
Week 2: Rocket launch from high to low
Week 2: Making a rocket with Boomwhackers
Week 2: Ordering pitch with Boomwhackers
Week 1: We listened to the music and made actions for legato (smooth) and staccato (spiky)
We had a discussion about what music in space could be like - ideas included different, scary and a little bumpy, loud, rushing like going fast, dark, sitar
Week 6: Robot Rhythm assessment a great example
Week 6: Robot Rhythm a very good duet
Week 6: Robot rhythms using sssh!
Week 6: Robot point and say the words
Week 6: Creating Robot Rhythms - coaching for rhythm
Week 5 - trying the robot playalong with claves
Week 5: claves
We are enjoying it - we are having to concentrate so it's hard to smile as well!
Week 5 Walking on Sunshine!
trying to copy body percussion. It is hard!
Week 4: playing the beat on our instruments in a group. Unfortunately Mrs Williams videos won't play so you will have to imagine the sound from the photos this week.
Week 3: Copying the beat
Week 3: Best beats from Year 1
Week 2: We try and play along to the beat with our instruments
Week 2: Devvon copies a pattern
Week 1: We ordered the notes of the scale
Be Brave,
Be Brilliant,
Be our Best