Bob Marley is 80!

On Friday, we celebrated the birthday of Bob Marley by singing a melody of his songs. What a wonderful way to start the day. It was lovely to see the children singing along and some of them starting to move with the music.

Bob Marley Sing Along

Crew Robson loved watching the Bob Marley Sing-a-Long in Crew this morning.

There were lots of children who were eager to join choir in KS2 next year and participate in Young Voices next year!

Our Guitar Lessons !

Today in Crew Wilkinson, we had an awesome guitar lesson, and we’re excited to share. Some students loved learning a new chord, while others enjoyed strumming along to a song.It was exciting to hear music come to life!

Bob Marley discussions in MI

Our crew check in this morning allowed us to choose which Bob Marley song we preferred- Three little birds or Jamming! We enjoyed listening to parts of the songs and explaining our answers. We then moved onto to discussing more on Bob Marley, we looked on google earth at where he lived and explored different pictures. We then explored reggae music in a little more detail, we listened to ‘Hold Em Joe’ and clapped along to the beat. We then explored other famous reggae musicians and songs. We thought about the similarities and differences between the songs and explained our ideas. We then started singing some of the songs by Bob Marley which we all loved 🙂

Crew in MI

Today was the start of national storytelling week! Our crew check in allowed us to share our favourite story. We then discussed storytelling in more detail and watched a clip of the first storytelling Laureate, Taft Thomas MBE. Our eyes were glued to the screen through the video clip and we all loved discussing our thoughts afterwards. We discussed storytelling through time and the importance of oral storytelling. From here we thought about what makes a good storyteller, how they make a story exciting and interesting and what the word ‘suspense’ means to us. We thought about our favourite places to read and share a story, some of these being on a bean bag, laid under a tree in the summer, on a chair, laid on our back, in the library and in a quiet space. Mrs McClare discussed her experiences of storytelling when she young and the stories she remembers the most.

When then moved onto looking at Bob Marley in preparation for the world wide sing a long to celebrate Bob Marley’s 80th birthday. We looked at who Bob Marley is and his legacy. At the end of the day we started practising some of his songs, really thinking about the words and what they mean. We loved singing the songs 🙂 We will continue to look at these in our music lesson tomorrow.

Expert Music Visitor

We were very lucky to have a visit today from a music expert. Mr Hull brought along more than 10 instruments which he entertained us with. We listened to different types of guitars, drums, wood wind instruments and even a harmonica!

We are very grateful that he took time out of his day to come and visit us. Hopefully he has inspired some children to take up an instrument!

Marvellous Music

As part of our hook week activities we have been listening to different genres of music and reflecting on how the songs made us feel. From Taylor Swift and Jay-Z to Bob Marley and Frank Sinatra, there was something for everyone!!