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Be Brave,
Be Brilliant,
Be our Best
Year 5
Summer Term: Zimbole
African music
Step 7: Robins perform to Frogs Class on a very hot afternoon after Sports Day and PE. Awesome work, guys!

Step 6: Omotade and Manuel working well together

Step 6: in pairs with the glockenspiel and djembe

Step 5: Zimbole Ostinato - first try

Step 4: Robins Class djembe practice

Step 3: Starting to learn the djembe. Apologies for the quality of the video - we were too busy playing to focus on recording it this week

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