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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.

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Appraising dance music, what do you notice?

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Composition using changes in tempo and pitch.

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Children were split into groups, and then had a specific piece of music to compose; love story, sadness, chase scene etc. Groups had to think of a particular scene to help them compose their piece…eg. funeral, gun fight etc.

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Create a structure using rhythmic patterns

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Create a structure using rhythmic patterns

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The children played their instruments to match the ‘pulse’ of the music. Remembering when to be silent and when to play.

We spoke about when to be fast, slow, loud and quiet for the different parts of the story.

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The children brought in their own teddies for music today.

We listened to the song ‘teddy bears picnic’.

We moved our bodies (and our bears) to the song, talking about the fast and slow parts of the song and how our bodies can move in beat to the song.

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Rhythm and pulse

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Hedgehogs have been learning the nursery rhyme ‘there was a princess long long ago.’

We introduced actions and dress up outfits as we sang.

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Challenge - to identify which graphic score relates to a piece of music

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Lesson 3 - following a graphic score along with the music

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Lesson 3 - Children came up with suggestions of sounds to represent the symbols on a graphic score

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Lesson 2: To identify and understand some composing techniques in film music.

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Using the notes from the blues scale, we improvised with our own tunes

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Playing the blues scale

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Lions - listening for bent notes. Lions also found it hard to distinguish the difference between bent notes and long notes.

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Playing the blues scale

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Following the blues scale

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Bent notes.

After discussing what a bent note was, Leopards listened to the song and we circled the notes that were possibly bent notes. Leopards chose more words than there actually were. After listening to it again, we discovered we had circled words where the note was elongated, but didn’t move up and down pitch.

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We listened to the song and then practised singing it.

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L.O. To be able to play the 12-bar blues.

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Playing cords.

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Developing knowledge of folk music.

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Warm up