At Pleasant Street Primary school we strive to embed music as part as our school culture. Music has a unique way of communicating that can inspire and motivate children. It is a vehicle for personal expression and plays an important role in the personal development of children. We believe that music should be accessible for every pupil in our school. Making music provides opportunities for physical, intellectual, imaginative and spiritual development.

Successful participation in music develops pupils’ self-esteem, confidence, well-being and learning skills. It is an effective medium for self-expression and creativity.
In our school, music is taught in line with the National Curriculum for KS1 and 2 with composingperforming and appraising at the core of the subject. Singing is central to our music curriculum. Singing from an early age is critical for the development of key skills necessary for gaining strong musicianship. We believe everybody can sing and we want to make this fun and accessible for all, creating a strong culture of singing in our school life.


In 2021 we became a Music Mark school after being nominated by Resonate Liverpool.



PHASE TWO MUSIC ROAD MAP COMING SOON

PHASE THREE MUSIC ROAD MAP COMING SOON



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Christmas rehearsal

19-11-2024

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

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Practicing our Christmas songs.

12-11-2024

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

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Listen and Appraise

08-11-2024

The children were introduced to Ragtime music this afternoon!

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Listen and Appraise

09-10-2024

Classical music

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Amazing singing class three!

08-10-2024

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

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Three little birds by Bob Marley….

01-10-2024

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

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Listen and Appraise

27-09-2024

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.

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Class 7 Listen and Appraise

27-09-2024

classical music

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Composing

24-09-2024

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

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Listen & Appraise

20-09-2024

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

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Music

17-09-2024

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

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Glockenspiels🎶🎼

17-09-2024

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

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Music in Nursery 🎶

13-09-2024

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

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Industrial sounds

12-09-2024

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

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Call and Response

10-09-2024

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

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Listen and Appraise

08-09-2024

Classical Music

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Beatles

25-06-2024

For music we have been looking at the Beatles.

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iSing

24-06-2024

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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Rhythm

18-06-2024

In music we practiced rhythm with our egg shakers.

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Music

18-06-2024

We enjoyed playing the djembe today.

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Listen and Appraise

14-06-2024

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.

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iSing practice!

11-06-2024

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

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Music

11-06-2024

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

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Listen and Appraise

07-06-2024

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

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Music

21-05-2024

Today we practiced pitch lines.

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Music

17-05-2024

Listen and Appraise learning about Pink

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Listen and Appraise

17-05-2024

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

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Music Thursdays

15-05-2024

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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Listen and Appraise

10-05-2024

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!

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Listen & Appraise

02-05-2024

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

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Singing around the Camp Fire

30-04-2024

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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Music

30-04-2024

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

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Listen and Appraise

26-04-2024

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!

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Listen and appraise

26-04-2024

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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Rhythm in the way we walk

25-04-2024

Exploring rhythm and pulse in Music.

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Music

23-04-2024

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

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Music

23-04-2024

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

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Listen and Appraise

19-04-2024

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

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Learning musical notes

27-03-2024

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

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Listen and Appraise

24-03-2024

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

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Rhythm and Blues

19-03-2024

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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Listen and Appraise

15-03-2024

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!!??

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Music

13-03-2024

Listen and Appraise

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Music

11-03-2024

Listen and Appraise

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Listen and Appraise

08-03-2024

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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Music

06-03-2024

In class 2 we learnt some new songs.

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Listen and Appraise

01-03-2024

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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Improvising

28-02-2024

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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Music – Listen and Appraise

23-02-2024

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!

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Music – Listen and Appraise

22-02-2024

Survivor – The eye of the Tiger.

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Music

22-02-2024

Learning about and exploring high and low pitch.

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Music

20-02-2024

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

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Listen and Appraise

09-02-2024

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

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Listen and Appraise

07-02-2024

Listened to country music.

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Music

06-02-2024

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

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Listen and Appraise

02-02-2024

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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Listen and Appraise

26-01-2024

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

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Listen and Appraise

22-01-2024
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Listen and Appraise

19-01-2024

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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Listen and Appraise music

16-01-2024

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

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Listen and Appraise

24-11-2023
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