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29 November 2024

Snail and the Mouse

Rabbits have been following a story called Snail and the Mouse in Music this half term, with a focus on exploring tempo. Throughout the weeks, Rabbits have used body percussion, singing and untuned instruments to help them understand the difference in tempo when listening to a piece of music. We…

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27 November 2024

Music in Team Hedgehogs

In music this term, we have been looking at a piece of music that is inspired by rivers. This week, we started to unpick the different elements of the music, thinking about what we could hear. Next week, we will finish this lesson by learning more of the vocabulary, before composing our own piece…

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14 November 2024

Ukulele in Team Badgers

This week in Music, Team Badgers have continued their ukulele practice and playing different strings seperately and simultaneously. They practiced this today to the song "Stay with Me". Well done Badgers!

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11 November 2024

Music in Team Meadow

The children have been learning about orchestral instruments. They have been thinking about which orchestral instruments they could hear in different pieces of music. 

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3 November 2024

EAD in Daffodils

Over the half term, Daffodils have enjoyed learning lots of nursery rhymes. We have enjoyed favourites such as Humpty Dumpty, One, two buckle my shoe and five little monkeys.  We have also used playdough to develop our fine motor skills whilst we sing along to our nursery rhymes! Here we are…

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23 October 2024

Magical Music in Orchard

Orchard have really enjoyed their music learning this half term where they have explored dynamics, pitch and texture. Along with appraising the work of classical composers, they have worked together in small groups to improvise and then create group compositions. 

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21 October 2024

Music in Starlings

Our music lesson this week involved us working as part of a pair to compose a piece of music in a particular style - a funeral march. 

We used standard notation to notate our piece of music and then we performed our piece of music. 

 

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23 September 2024

Music in Team Badgers

In Team Badgers, the children have started to learn to play a new instrument- the ukulele! This week, we practiced all four strings G,C,E,A one at a time to the song 'My dog has fleas!'. We learned to remember the strings G,C,E,A by saying Good Children Eat Apples!

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14 June 2024

Discovering Musical Theatre in Team Starlings!

This week in Music, we have been learning all about 'Musical Theatre' and the difference between 'Character Songs' and 'Action Songs.' We really enjoyed watching clips from various musicals and deciding what the purpose behind the song was. Over the next few weeks, we will be creating our very own…

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19 April 2024

Music in Starlings- Looping and Remixing!

This week in Team Starlings, in our music lessons, we have become DJs! We have been learning how to create loops of music and how to layer them to create different sound textures. We have very much enjoyed using various software to produce layered tracks with different effects, listening to…

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6 February 2024

Starlings Sing 'Shosholoza!'

In music this half term, we have been learning the 'Shosholoza,' a West African song that is traditionally sung in a round. We have enjoyed learning the words, singing different parts, practising chords on the glockenspiels, and even leaning some traditional dance moves to enhance our performance!…

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18 January 2024

Ukulele in Badgers

This week in our Ukulele lesson, the children have been recapping and practising chord G7. They embedded this learning by playing a song containing this chord. They also worked on moving between different chords a little more quickly. Finally, they practised part singing, by splitting the class in…

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