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Sp1 Islands performing for KS1 learning to sing by memory. Performing songs from the UK.

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Year 5 Lions Designing our own scene for a musical 

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Year 5 Lions Designing our own scene for a musical 

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Children could choose jukebox or story musical.

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Demonstrate change in tempo.

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Year 1 owls- Changing tempo

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Compositions for the festival of colour

The children listen to Bruno Mars ‘I just might’ and produce a graphic score to represent the music in colour.

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While we were designing our Peter Thorpe-inspired space rocket pictures, we listened to Holst’s Planet’s Suite

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Body Percussion using the rhythm from ‘The Young People’s Guide to the Orchestra.’

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Body Percussion using the rhythm from ‘The Young People’s Guide to the Orchestra.’

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Penguins

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Penguins- Practicing strumming.

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Perform a rhythm in different ways which relate to the idea of theme and variations to Pop Art

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To read simple rhythmic patterns comprising of one beat sounds and rests.

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Listening to blues music and thinking about how it makes us feel.

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Spring 1. Ancient Egypt singing. Dolphins. 

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Spring 1. Ancient Egypt singing. Dolphins. 

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Our first attempt at singing the Nile song.

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Body percussion to Stevie Wonder. Link to trailblazers topic.

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Making waves by using pitch and dynamtics

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Making waves by using pitch and dynamtics

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Exploring and creating our own form of notation - hieroglyphics

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Practising strumming

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Practising the chords A, B and C again for the first time after new year

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Singing in time with others

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To explore and change dynamics using the voice.

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Spring 1 week 1. Coast inspired singing 

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Spring 1 week 1. Coast inspired singing 

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The children learn and sang to ‘My Bonnie lies over the ocean’ and learnt the meaning behind its lyrics.

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To play call and response rhythms using percussion instruments.

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Singing in harmony

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Christmas performance for the crowds at the Bury St Edmund’s Christmas light switch on

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Christmas performance for the crowds at the Bury St Edmund’s Christmas light switch on

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Autumn 2. Dolphins. Starting to sing in the round

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Autumn 2. Dolphins. Starting to sing in the round

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Playing A minor and C

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Playing A minor and C

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11/11/25

Learning to play the chords of A, D and E on tuned percussion.

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Snail and the mouse Aut 2.

To use voices and bodies expressively while exploring tempo.

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Celebration assembly

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Celebration assembly

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Starting to learn our song.

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Aut 1 - Using notation to compose Viking battle songs

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Aut 1 - Using notation to compose Viking battle songs

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Group compositions inspired by waves

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To demonstrate an understanding of pulse through performance.

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The children used dynamics, pitch and texture to compose a piece involving waves.

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Writing a song to sing along with our playing

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Developing our skills

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Thank very much to Eddie for playing a piece called The Dancing Bear in our music assembly today.

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Exploring dynamics, pitch and texture through Mendelssohn's 'Fingal's Cave.' 

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Exploring dynamics, pitch and texture through Mendelssohn's 'Fingal's Cave.' 

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Listening to and making rythms using percussion instruments in call and response. Also using loud and soft dynamics.

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Learning the parts of the ukulele

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Following the rhythm

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Autumn 1 - Developing singing technique (Theme: the Vikings) 

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Autumn 1 - Developing singing technique (Theme: the Vikings) 

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To use simple rhythmic notation to compose a Viking battle song.

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First experience with the ukulele

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Feeling the pulse

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Space Oddity performance - dolphins

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Keeping the Pulse - Owl Class -Autumn 1

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Keeping the pulse - Owl class Autumn 1

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The children were taught a local sea inspired folk song.

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To demonstrate an understanding of pulse using parts of the body.

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Chn joined in with a traditional folk sea shanty.

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Yr 3 had the pleasure of experiencing a country dancing workshop. This also involved learning a traditional song originating in Suffolk.

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Dolphin class enjoyed their morning practising a variety of country dances.

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Compositions of seaside, countryside or city sounds.

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Compositions of seaside, country or city sounds.

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Creating symbols to represent sounds.

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Can you guess the tune we were treated to in celebration assembly today?

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Can you guess the tune we were treated to in celebration assembly today?

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WCET Concert 25/6/25

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Planning and rehearsing our theatre scenes

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Planning a musical theatre scene, including a song, dance and acting.

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Learning to identify character and action songs

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Today we learnt how some instruments are tuned and some instruments are untuned.

The children had to play a game by picking each instrument and placing it in the right hoop.

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Prior knowledge

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Learning the original and playing accurately the song “Somewhere over the rainbow”

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We recreated a rainforest storm using our bodies as instruments.

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The children learnt the different instruments that make an orchestra.

They got to try being a conductor in front of their own orchestra also.

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Creating our own loops using the “Chrome music lab - song maker” programme

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Celebrating VE Day with a few memorable songs from the era.

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Choir performing for our VE Day celebrations

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To lead us into celebration assembly today, we were treated to some beautiful piano playing from Elena in year 4. Her ensemble included a piece that she had written herself- we were all very impressed.

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Today we discussed “what makes a musical instrument”.

We used recyclable materials to create our own musical instruments and took turns to listen to their sounds.

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The children listened to Storm by Benjamin Britten and then learnt about Soundscapes and created their own to fit with this piece of music.

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The classes had loops to create using body percussion, then layered the loops from 4 separate groups to create a looped rhythm.