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At St Bartholomew’s C of E Primary School, we want every child to be able to link, both mentally and spiritually with music in both collective worship and musical lessons.
By listening to a wide variety of musical genres, and learning to sing and play many different songs throughout their time in school, we want children to develop a curiosity for music, encouraging them to develop their own musical passions outside of school. Using music and performance across the curriculum, will in turn increase children’s self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement, allowing our children to be happy in their learning and increase their enjoyment in school. By developing a strong base of music within school, children will be able to:
- Perform, listen to, review and evaluate music.
- Be taught to sing, create and compose music.
- Understand and explore how music is created, produced and communicated.
As stated in the national curriculum.
Curriculum - Music - Key Documents
Curriculum - Music - Useful Links
Accuradio: a free radio station, full of a range of music organised by composer or genre. Find the World of Williams channel to hear a fantastic range of music from the movies that you love.
BBC Bitesize: A great range of explanation videos, discussing everything you need to know about music, how it is written, performed and arranged. A great start when thinking about writing your own songs!
BC Ten Pieces: 40 pieces of music, with accompanying videos, explaining the music and the composers. A fascinating look at how, and why the composers wrote the music and how the music works.
Classical 100: 100 of the best pieces of classical music ever written. This free resource, (but you have to register) has been put together as pieces of music all children should have heard. Every piece of music also has a task to think about whilst you are listening or once you have heard it.
Curriculum - Music - Glockenspiels
Class 4 have enjoyed learning to play the glockenspiel in our music lessons.
Curriculum - Music - Lets Rock Performance
Class 15 recapped over the song ‘Let’s Rock’ and the meaning of the lyrical. Children then practised performing the song using glockenspiels and recorders. Mr Needham was very impressed with their performance.
Curriculum - Music - Happy
Class 16 have enjoyed learning the song happy and even added their own actions.
Curriculum - Music - Lets Rock!
Class 12 enjoyed listening to and appraising the song, ‘Let’s Rock.’ Children focused on the lyrics to the song and discussed their meaning. Class 12 then began rehearsing performing the song. Well done class 12!
Curriculum - Music - Orchestra Instruments
This week children in class 5 enjoyed Mr Leadbeater visiting their class to show them the different instruments they might find in an orchestra. They looked at brass, woodwind and stringed instruments and loved having a go with instruments such as the French horn, tuba, banjo, cello and flute.
Curriculum - Music - Learning to Play Glockenspiels
Class 6 have worked hard in music, practicing playing the start of little donkey on the glockenspiels. They then improvised the sound of a donkeys hooves, then wrote down their composition before practising it and performing it in pairs. We are still working on our timings but the pupils were very proud of themselves.
Curriculum - Music - 12 Days of Christmas
Class 12 have been practicing the 12 Days of Christmas over the past couple of weeks and created a video for everyone to enjoy. Merry Christmas from class 12.
Curriculum - Music - Glockenspiels
Class 4 have enjoyed having a go at playing the glockenspiels in their Music lessons this half term. Well done class 4!
Curriculum - Music - Music in My Soul Performance
In music this week the children in class 5 have really enjoyed learning the song ‘Music In My Soul’ they were very excited to perform it to share on the school website.
Curriculum - Music - A and G Chords
Today we learnt how to move between our G and A chords to play along with a tune. We did a warm up to get our hands ready for all the movements.
Curriculum - Music - You can make a Difference
Class 11 have been working hard on the song ‘You can make a difference.’ They have practiced sing the song and playing along with the glockenspiels in 4 parts. They’ve also enjoyed dancing along to the beat.
Curriculum - Music - Mary has a Little Lamb
Today we have learnt to sing and play 'Mary has a Little Lamb' on the glockenspiels. We hope you enjoy our performance.
Curriculum - Music - Strumming Chords
Today we worked on understanding finger numbers and position when strumming chords. We practiced changing positions between chords we have learnt.
Curriculum - Music - Telling Stories
This week children in class 5 have been exploring telling stories through music. They looked at different short cartoons such as the Pink Panther and looked how the sound effects and music tell the story and show what the characters are doing. In groups of 4 the children made up their own short stretch and used percussion instruments to represent the actions and tell the story of what was happening.
Curriculum - Music - Identifying Different Types of Music
Class 7 have been practising recognising different types of music. We focused on the drums and guitar in rock music, the strings and piano in classical music and the twang of the banjo and ukulele in country music. As you can see the more songs the class heard the better they got.
Curriculum - Music - Eerie Canal
Well done to class 16 and 17 who performed Eerie Canal as part of our music curriculum this half term.
Curriculum - Music - Playing Glockenspiels
Class 7 have been working hard learning to play a piece of music on the glockenspiels. They have also copied each other’s repetitive rhythms, found the pulse in the music and performed with their heads held high. They are now working on identifying genres and the mood of a type of music.
Curriculum - Music - The Recorder
Class 11 have been working hard learning the recorder. They have learnt how many beats in a bar, that a crotchet is 2 beats and a minim is 3 beats and what they look like on a stave. Please take a look at the video and admire the 2 tunes they have learnt.
Curriculum - Music - The Music Man
In music, class 6 have been learning 'The Music Man'.
Curriculum - Music - The Fresh Prince of Bel Air
Class 15 have been learning to sing the Fresh Prince of Belair. Here is their performance. Well done class 15!
Curriculum - Music - I Want to Play in a Band
Here is a performance of 'I want to play in a band' by class 7.
Curriculum - Music - Chord Practice
Today we practiced our C chord, A chord, F chord and G chord. We strummed rhythms for others to repeat. Then we practiced the different chords in pieces of music strumming in time.
Curriculum - Music - The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Class 16 have been working hard this half term to practice and perform The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air with recorders.
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