Rehearsals are well underway for our performance at Young Voices 2024. We have kicked off our preparation by learning ‘Today’s Gonna Be a Great Day’. We’ve totally mastered it in just 2 rehearsals! Fab work guys! 🎤
Young Voices 2024
Category : Personal Development
Personal Development
Note B ♩
In Year 3/4, we continued our musical journey to learn the recorder and practised playing the note B in multiple ways to create a melody. We looked at how some notes only last for one beat (crotchet) and how others last for two beats (quavers). Using these different notes, we were able to play 2 short pieces of music and eventually performed these without Miss McGlone’s help! Even our learning coaches are learning something new and playing their own recorders alongside us! Great work everyone! ✨
Creating sound effects for The Pink Panther theme tune 🎶
We began by discussing the character and mood of the music – we agreed that it was mysterious and sneaky. We then thought about how the dynamics and timbre gave the piece a certain feel and said that the way the composer used short, quiet sounds and then long, loud sounds really matched the action of the cartoon.
We watched a video that showed us how sound effects can be made for cartoons and identified that not only can instruments be used, but body percussion could also be used to give an action more meaning.
Using untuned percussion instruments and body percussion, we watched a short clip of the opening sequence and began to think about the sounds that could be used to match the action on screen.
Creating our own pentatonic melodies using glockenspiels 🎼
In Year 3/4 this morning we have been using the notes F, G, A, D and C on our glockenspiels to create our own melody for ‘I’ve Been To Harlem’. We used the notes in lots of different ways and each pair created a completely different melody that we noted on our whiteboards so that we could remember the sequence. We then had some brave volunteers who performed to the rest of their crew! ✨
Clean Up Crew
Crew Hamill got to share in the litter picking fun last week and helped to keep Carcroft clean. We worked well as a crew and managed to find lots of litter which has made our school field a much safer place.
Keeping Carcroft clean 🚮
Some children from Crew Marsh explored the outdoor area of our School today. We spoke about the importance of litter picking but also making sure it is safe to do so. Some of them were quite shocked at how much they found but also quite impressed that they could all hold the huge pipe they found too! They did a great job and hopefully they spread their enthusiasm about keeping their environment safe to others in the community 👏
Let’s Go Fly A Kite!
Crew MW took advantage of the windy weather today to do something that the children have been asking to do since the start of the year – fly a kite! We worked together as crew to get the kites up into the air, and even though it was raining, we had so much fun! 🪁
Cooking club 🥨
This week in cooking club we made pretzels and what a fab job we did! Hope you all enjoy them tonight 💕
This week in Crew Pashley…
This week we have been learning about the Great Fire of London and Firefighters in Expedition. We practised our letter formation skills in Handwriting. In Maths, we practiced counting and adding numbers to kickstart our Place Value unit.
Carcroft Changemaker
Auditions have begun in Crew Mcloughlin – who has what it takes to be a Carcroft Changemaker? We had 8 children go head to head in a battle to win, simply by giving a one minute speech about why they would be good for the role. It all came down to that last vote, it was very close but we have our winner… Alicia.
Well done! I am sure you are going to exceed in your role as Carcroft Changemaker.
