Crew Shields – Music 🎶 ✨

12th February 2024Sarah Mcglone

We began our new music unit ‘The Doot Doot Song’ by joining in with a warm up called a stomp canon. This enabled us to warm up our voices as well as adding actions to warm up physically too.

We then looked at the structure of ‘The Doot Doot Song’, thinking about the fact that songs are built using different sections and structures.

We began to learn the song by focusing on the chorus. Although the lyrics are not tricky, they are syncopated (goes against the rhythm/beat) and some of the words need to be staccato (short and detached). We then discussed what chords and triads are before trying to identify the chords used in the song.

We then continued to learn how to play the recorder, this lesson we were introduced to the note ‘G’.

Crew Hamill and Crew Thompson – Music 🎶 ✨

12th February 2024Sarah Mcglone

We have started a new unit of music called ‘Latin Dance’. We started by learning the basic steps of salsa dancing, making sure that we kept the rhythm so that we all did the correct steps at the same time.

We then discussed that different songs are structured in different ways. We listened to our song ‘Latin Dance’ and identified how the song is structured. Once we had recognised the structure, we began finding the beat of the bar, adding some basic footwork from the basic steps we looked at at the beginning of the lesson. We then added in a further action on beat 1 to represent a two quavers (jogging duration).

We finished off the lesson by beginning to learn the chorus.

We then continued to learn how to play the recorder, this lesson we were introduced to the note ‘G’.

Crew Godley and Crew Robson – Music 🎶 ✨

12th February 2024Sarah Mcglone

During this lesson, we warmed up by recapping walk (crotchet) and ‘jog’ (quaver) durations before looking at 4-beat rhythms. We discussed rhythm grids and looked at the symbol for ‘rest’.

Once we had practised reading the rhythm grids, we then created our own 4-beat rhythms. We practised the rhythms we created with our partner using untuned percussion instruments before then swapping grids with another pair and having a go at playing their rhythm too.

Chinese New Year 🐲🧧

12th February 2024Sarah Mcglone

As part of our expedition, we have been looking at Chinese New Year and the traditions associated with it. We looked at the tradition of giving red envelopes containing money to children to bring them good fortune, good luck and blessings. This tradition now extends to giving envelopes to extended family, friends and colleagues.

To spread good fortune, luck and blessings to our school community, we decided to fill red envelopes with chocolate coins to give to the adults in our school who help us and keep us safe. We worked together to fill them and then took them around school, wishing each crew a happy Chinese New Year.

Crew MW – PE ⚽️🏀👟

8th February 2024Sarah Mcglone

This week we have been looking at ball skills, in particular dribbling. We talked about what dribbling is and how it gives you more control over the ball. We practised this by working with a partner to dribble the ball towards each other, making sure that we were keeping it controlled as we moved.

We then played a game where half of the crew had to stand with their legs apart (this made a rainbow) and the other half of the crew had to dribble the ball (the sun) around the hall. As we were dribbling the ball, we had to carefully direct the ball through the rainbows to try and score as many points as possible. We showed really good control of the ball during this game!

Crew MW – Music 🎶🥁

8th February 2024Sarah Mcglone

This week we have continued with our music learning by practising the song ‘Shake My Sillies Out’. We made sure we included the actions we had looked at in the previous lesson and continued thinking about how we keep in time with the beat of the track. We did a great job of this!

We then talked about how you can use instruments to keep the beat and so we chose an untuned percussion instrument from the box and practised at playing the beat, being sure to keep in time with each other. We worked extremely well as a crew and it sounded wonderful!