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Listen and Appraise music

We loved Little Richard’s fantastic piano playing during our first music appraisal of the half term!!

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The children were familiar with the ‘Fab Four’ from Year 1 and they loved listening to ‘Help’, particularly enjoying the music clip of John, Paul, George and Ringo.

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The children enjoyed listening to singer songwriter and musician Joan Baez this afternoon, enjoying the acoustic guitar playing!!

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Lots of memories brought back (for the adults at least!) as the class listened to Lynn Anderson’s country hit ‘Rose Garden’. One girl in particular loved this style of music!

Music

In music this week Class 3 practiced a song called “Amani Utupe”. We enjoyed it very much!

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Listened to country music.

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The children ended the half term listening to ELO’s ‘Mr Blue Sky’ enjoying its happy, bright tune and the animation too!!

Music

Class three enjoyed using the Glockenspiel. We had lots of fun learning this new song.

Music

Learning about and exploring high and low pitch.

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Survivor – The eye of the Tiger.

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The children enjoyed the pulsing sound of Survivor’s ‘Eye of the Tiger’ this afternoon. It was certainly familiar and had the children using their air guitars!

Improvising

Class 6 made some impressive music from the glockenspiels this week. We improvised using C D E F G A B C and our musical skills shone through.

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The children listened to two legends this afternoon, as Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney sang ‘Ebony and Ivory’. They enjoyed the song and discussed its message.

Music

In class 2 we learnt some new songs.

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The children loved the rock sounds of Guns’n Roses this afternoon with their classic ‘Sweet Child ‘O Mine’ – there were some fantastic air guitars!

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The children enjoyed the acoustic sounds of Oasis this afternoon, with their single ‘Don’t look back in anger’. They enjoyed the guitar sounds especially!!??

Rhythm and Blues

Class 6 are composing their own blues songs relating to events in their own lives. Great teamwork and some budding songwriters.

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Class 2 enjoyed the acoustic sounds of Tracy Chapman in our latest Listen and Appraise session, with children commenting on her distinctive voice.

Learning musical notes

The children were practised their musical notes with Mrs Grindley and impressed with their knowledge and application.

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The children loved the energy and tempo of ‘Hey ya!’ by OutKast this afternoon!

Music

A wonderful music lesson with class 3 using different body parts to make sounds.

Music

We had a great lesson practising our songs on the ukulele.

Rhythm in the way we walk

Exploring rhythm and pulse in Music.

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This week we enjoyed listening to ‘Yellow’ by Coldplay. Lots of us had heard this song before and liked hearing the guitar.

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Taylor Swift’s ‘Shake it off’ was certainly the most popular song for some time in our Listen and Appraise session. The children loved it!

Music

In Class 2 we are learning about musical elements. We learnt a song called ‘Rhythm in the way we walk’.

Singing around the Camp Fire

Tonight we finished off our day with a camp fire. Mr Curry played some songs on the guitar and we sang some of our favourites from music lessons and choir club. Before we went back to the accommodation, we talked about things that we are grateful for, shared our favourite part of the trip and discussed what we are most proud of whilst we have been here.

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This week the children listened to ‘Can’t Stop the Music’ by Justin Timberlake.

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The children loved the distinctive sound of Pink this afternoon, listening to ‘What about us?’. They were surprised to know she is playing part of her tour in Liverpool this summer!

Music Thursdays

Reception have really enjoyed their weekly music/Spanish class with Mrs Grindley, last week Reception learnt lots of new songs and they had so much fun learning the lyrics and the actions. They can’t wait for their next lessons to keep practicing their new songs.

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The children loved the familiar sound of Alicia Keys this afternoon, singing along to her hit ‘This girl is on fire’. Very popular indeed!

Music

Listen and Appraise learning about Pink

Music

Today we practiced pitch lines.

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Class 2 listened to a song from Somalia. The children really enjoyed the song and the music video.

Music

Today we listened to some classical music and used egg shakers to follow along with the beat.

iSing practice!

Class three have been working very hard practicing their songs for iSing?

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Listening to Ed Sheeran’s ‘Lego House’ this afternoon, the children enjoyed the gentle ballad, while one member of the class recognised the actor who appeared in the music video.

Music

We enjoyed playing the djembe today.

Rhythm

In music we practiced rhythm with our egg shakers.

iSing

Class 3 had a wonderful time singing on stage at iSing today. We had fantastic singing from the children and had so much fun !! 🎤🎶

Beatles

For music we have been looking at the Beatles.

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Classical Music

Call and Response

Class 5 have been practising call and response with a new song🎶

Industrial sounds

In class we listened to sounds on an industrial site.We also learnt about different rhythms and beats.

Music in Nursery 🎶

We love playing and listening to music in Nursery with Mrs Grindley.

Glockenspiels🎶🎼

Class 5 played “Body popping skeleton” on the glockenspiels focusing on the beat and patterns.

Music

Today we used rhythm sticks to practice rhythmic patterns and movements .

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For listen and appraise class 5 listened to Antonio Rossini who was an Italian composer.

Composing

In class 6 Music today, we are composing rhythms and getting musically creative.

Class 7 Listen and Appraise

classical music

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Today’s listen and appraise session was the instantly recognisable sound of Beethoven, the children enjoying the stirring sound of the violin in Symphony No.5.

Three little birds by Bob Marley….

We spoke about Bob Marleys song and sang it together in class .

Amazing singing class three!

We used different instruments in rhythm to a song in music.

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Classical music

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The children were introduced to Ragtime music this afternoon!

Practicing our Christmas songs.

Beautiful vocals in class 3 today during music.
Good job!

Christmas rehearsal

Warming up our vocals ready to practice our Christmas songs for the performance.

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An old swing tune by Ethel Waters this afternoon!

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Class 5 enjoyed listening to “Summertime” by Doc Watson.

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The class listened to the smooth voice of Nat King Cole this afternoon, ‘Autumn Leaves’.

Christmas Performance

KS1 have been working very hard this half term to get ready for our Christmas performance. They should all be very proud of themselves for not only learning new songs and actions but also dialogue. Our best performance yet!

Christmas performance

We have been practicing our songs for our Christmas performance.A big well done to class 3 for doing so well. Mrs Casey and Miss Ghazali wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a happy new year.