Music Chatter
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!
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In music this week Class 3 practiced a song called “Amani Utupe”. We enjoyed it very much!
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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.
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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!
9Improvising
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.
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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!!??
9Rhythm 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.
6Learning 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!
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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.
Listen and Appraise
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.
Listen and Appraise
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.
Listen and Appraise
The children loved the familiar sound of Alicia Keys this afternoon, singing along to her hit ‘This girl is on fire’. Very popular indeed!
Listen and Appraise
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.
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 !! 🎤🎶
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