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.

This week the three year old nursery had fun exploring the sounds of the big drum. They used their super listening skills to help us to echo sounds and beats played by the adult.

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What a brilliant steel pans performance to kick off our Room 17 event!

5P thoroughly enjoyed their Samba sessions with music specialist, Mrs Cossavella. They quickly learned their parts, creating a wonderful, collective sound.

Year 3 have been learning all about music notation. In the video you will see them clapping and along and using their voices to 4 beat bars using ‘frogs, tadpoles and rests.’ The frog represents a crotchet and the tadpole represents a quaver.

The they progressed to only clapping the frogs and tadpoles. After that, they were able to clap a 4 beat bar reading the notation in their head and clapping along.

Here is how reading music progresses.

They start with tadpoles and frogs, then to the notes without the stem, then finally to reading notation.

The children in Nursery were very excited to meet CC today who came in to show us some of her Bollywood dance moves. They loved trying the different movements and putting them together to create a dance. Well done everyone.

They have been exploring Garageband. They created drum patterns using the beat sequencer and then started to create a simple four note pattern. They learnt about the different notes on a piano and realised that they repeat themselves started at A and going to G but not to H! Here are a few snippets of the tracks they have started to create.

This morning 3H had a fantastic music lesson where they learnt all about tempo, pitch as well as ostinatos and began to read notation. 

They explored tempo and pitch by singing a song and then varying the tempo and pitch. They were able to notice what had changed and how. ‘The tempo was faster.’ ‘The pitch was higher.’ From this, they were also able to internalise the song. We added actions and began to take certain words out. By the end we had internalised the song so we didn’t sing anything out loud- only the actions! 

They learnt that ostinato means something that repeats over and over again. They created a word ostinato and we performed it as a round. 

These videos show them exploring pitch and tempo. As well as, reading notation. They had a fantastic time with Mrs Cossavella.