Year 4 had a visit from Sam the sound man. They learnt so many amazing things about sound from how echoes work to ways we could make our own instruments. Sam talked the children through the main scientific concepts and brought many experiments to practically demonstrate the key theories. He also discussed many different homemade musical instruments that can be made out of household objects.
Thank you to all the families who came to Carols around the tree and watched Year 3 and 4 perform some beautiful carols. As well as the choir, steel pans and Nathaniel’s piano performance.
Year 3 had the opportunity to experience an artsong music workshop from Leeds Lieder this afternoon. They learnt that Leider means artsong and understood how important music is in creating an image.
They discussed musical vocabulary pitch and dynamics.
They also practiced being conductors to change the dynamics of the piano as shown in the picture above.
Lastly, Year 3 worked together to create a song. Here it is!
6D had a live music performance from Izzy! (see below).
In Autumn 1, year 3 have been exploring pitch with chime bars. They have been listening to and appreciating music and noticing where the pitch gets higher and where the pitch gets lower. They have learnt how to hold a beater and use the chime bars. They have learnt to play along with the song ‘elevator’ and ‘once a man fell in a well’.
This morning we had the opportunity to showcase some of the fantastic music that has been taking place across the year at Allerton. We saw brilliant performances from Upper Key Stage 2 Choir, Key Stage 1 choir, Steel Pans ensemble and samba club. It was so great to see our musical and creative children showing some of the brilliant skills they have learnt.
4A finished the half term with an excellent week of learning.
During Music, we ended our Garageband topic by creating pieces to soundtrack the opening of ‘Doctor Who.’ We created our pieces and then used an app called iMovie to twin the video with the music. Mr Ash was simply blown away by the quality of the children’s work.
This year Allerton had a fantastic time at Big Samba! We performed our hip hop groove as a school as well a playing with 300 other children. We also learnt new and challenging grooves together. It was fantastic to play in such a big crowd.
