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Class 4 have been working hard to practise their glockenspiel skills.

Here is their performance of Cuckoo.

Years 5 and 6 had a great day, taking part in a Samba drumming workshop. 

We learned about the history of Samba and played 4 different Samba instruments. We had a fantastic time and a great big thank you to Dave, the drum leader, for making the session such fun. 

Well done to Years 5 and…

Years 5 and 6 had a great day, taking part in a Samba drumming workshop. 

We learned about the history of Samba and played 4 different Samba instruments. We had a fantastic time and a great big thank you to Dave, the drum leader, for making the session such fun. 

Well done to Years 5 and…

Class 12 have been learning about Samba music, having lots of loud fun playing several traditional instruments, such as the surdo; tamborim; agogo; ganza, as well as learning about the history of the genre.

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Class 13 had a lovely workshop with Dave the Samba man. 

They started by working together, creating a rhythm and then adding words, leading to playing instruments and creating carnival music. 

They all really enjoyed it and performed brilliantly. 

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Today we were lucky enough to have a visitor who taught us to play bamboo Tamboo instruments. 

We played all sorts or rhythms to each other. We copied some rhythms and then created our own for others to copy. 

We even composed a piece of music which we recorded and listened back. We couldn’t…

Class 5 really enjoyed today's Brass Band workshop.

They learned lots about some of the different musical instruments and worked to adapt a song to make it their…

Class 16 have learnt to play along to the song La Bamba using their recorders. 

They have done a brilliant job, well done class 16.

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Today was our final lesson using garage band. 

We used what we had learnt over the last few weeks to create a ‘multi-track composition’. 

We then shared our tracks with each other to enjoy and assess. 

We have had so much fun!

Class 10 are really enjoying using Garage Band in Computing to create, edit and record their own beats!

Class 10 and Class 11 held a rap battle in Music to practice our new song - 'Stop'. It was too hard to choose a winner so we called it a draw!

We then joined together to sing the song again!

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Class 5 really enjoyed their music lesson this week where they have been learning the song 'Rainbows'. 

The children looked at the different sections of the song such as verse and chorus and how the chorus usually repeats throughout the song.

They did a great job when singing and used…