Music

This afternoon, we have had our first music lesson. Miss Taylor came into school to teach us about a variety of musical instruments. She was showing us how to hold and play musical instruments and then how to keep a beat with them. We kept going fast and then slow. Read more

Reception’s Assembly

We performed our assembly today in front of our parents, KS1 and KS2 and retold the story of the Hungry Caterpillar. We all had a special role in our performance which included dancing, singing and narrating. We have worked hard to learn all our songs and learn our lines, some Read more

Finding the pulse

We enjoyed our music lesson this afternoon and listened to the song ‘Ganesh Is Fresh by MC Yogi’. We found the pulse in different ways such as clapping, stamping our feet and using cool dance moves. We identified different voices and instruments used in the song and gave impressions of Read more

Macbeth soundscape in the park.

This morning, year 4 enjoyed visiting the park to experience the atmosphere of the opening scenes of Macbeth. We did this by imagining the sounds that Macbeth and Banquo might have heard as they travelled back to camp. We then used the environment to create these noises and recorded the Read more

More fun with sound: We completed a science experiment to see how the amount of water in a glass container effects the sound. We also went out in the lovely sunshine to experiment using a string telephone.

Wardle Brass band

We had a fantastic morning when Wardle brass band came in to perform for us. Ms Smith got us all really involved and talked about the different instruments that the children played. Our children really loved every minute and they have been inspired to learn to play a musical instrument Read more

Nursery Rhyme Rap

First we learnt the meanings of beat, tempo , rhythm and rhyme. We then worked in groups and turned nursery rhymes into a raps thinking about the beat and using different tempos.