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.
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.
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.
On Tuesday, a group of Year 3 children went to Pudsey Civic Hall. They had a very exciting time listening to Youth Music Proms.
They experienced performances from three of the senior City of Leeds Youth Music groups made up of some of the best young musicians from across Leeds:
· City of Leeds Youth Orchestra Strings
· City of Leeds Youth Wind Orchestra
· LYJRO (Leeds Youth Jazz-Rock Orchestra)
