Curriculum Impact Tag: Music

This week the children have been exploring painting whilst listening to music. Today they asked to listen to the music again so they could dance together. We talked about the music saying if it was fast, slow, high, low, calming or energetic. 

Year 5 visited the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall to watch ‘The World in One City: A Musical Journey.’

The performance explored the influence of different cultures on Liverpool and the music associated with them.

The children enjoyed listening to the live performance by the orchestra and taking…

Year 3 began learning how to play recorder this week. Thanks to Mr Kiggins. The children had great fun.

Year 1 Music 

We started our new theme ‘Fairytales’ in music today. We listened to the story about The Three Little Pigs and changed our voices to represent the different characters. 

Year 4 recorder lessons have begun. We are so excited to learn something new. If we can play the recorder, there are so many other instruments that we can learn too! 

We have started to use Scratch to create music.

In this lesson, we have been tinkering and getting used to using the programme.

Over the next few weeks we will be developing our skills using Scratch.

In our current music unit, we are looking at songs from World War 2. We have been listening to the famous song: White Cliffs of Dover and have been learning how to read different styles of notation. 

The children have had lots of fun playing and exploring outdoors. In music we have been learning about percussion instruments so the children wanted to hear the sounds the tractor tyre could make. They have also been using the trees to play hide and seek.  

The children have enjoyed exploring different sounds on our new music wall that the children created together this week. We listened to the sounds the wooden items made when hit and described how they are different to the sounds created by striking metal objects.  

In this lesson we explored using hieroglyphics as musical symbols.

After listening to The Bangles, ‘Walk like an Egyptian’, we discussed what symbols would be suitable to go along with the song.

In pairs, we created our own composition using hieroglyphics and selected suitable sounds to go…

This week we have had lots of fun playing and learning with our friends. We have begun to make a music wall outdoors using pans, spoons and bells. Inside we are playing in our home corner - having tea parties and going shopping. 

Learning the Recorder in Year 5!

Children in Year 5 started their instrumental lessons with Mr Lacey-Kiggins today as they started to learn about the recorder: how to begin to play it and how to begin to read music notation. For the remainder of the term, the children will be learning the…