Wednesday, 30th June 2021

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Wednesday, 23rd June 2021

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Objectives covered this week:

Breathing Exercises: Rainbow Breathing 

Body Percussion: Break 1, Funky Rhythm and Triangle Chant!

Tongue Twisters: Let's re-visit Peter Piper...

Musical Element: Texture with award winning composer, Nitin Sawhney

Notation: Let's sight-read and perform rhythm notation with our ABA structured phrase!

Genre of the Month: Gamelan gong kebyar - final week

Listen & Respond to the 'Song of the Week': Listen to some Gamelan music and think about how it's made

Wednesday, 16th June 2021

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Objectives covered this week:

Breathing Exercises: Rainbow Breathing 

Body Percussion: Break 1 and our new funky rhythm!

Tongue Twisters: Let's re-visit She sells seashells...

Musical Element: Timbre - how do you pronounce that?!

Notation: A clever way to remember your isosceles triangle from your scalene triangle!

Genre of the Month: Gamelan gong kebyar - did you know it is based around an interesting scale of notes?

Listen & Respond to the 'Song of the Week': Listen to some Gamelan music and think about how it's made

Wednesday, 9th June 2021

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Objectives covered this week:

Breathing Exercises: Rainbow Breathing 

Body Percussion: Call and response rhythms and our new fun beat

Tongue Twisters: Let's re-visit the Woodchuck!

Musical Element: Dynamics - our new genre loves a bit of drama (just like Beethoven did!)

Notation: All our notes so far - it's quiz time! Sight reading 2 lines of music

Genre of the Month: Intro to Gamelan gong kebyar - lots to explore for the next few weeks here!

Listen & Respond to the 'Song of the Week': Listen to some Gamelan music to start us on our Indonesian journey

Performance of the week: Mrs Chowdhury's son, Abdur-Rahman, performs a piece on flute!

Wednesday, 26th May 2021

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Wednesday, 19th May 2021

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Objectives covered this week:

Breathing Exercises: Crossing the midline (fine motor skills & breathing)

Body Percussion: Break 1 and 'Hello everyone' chant (pulse)

Tongue Twisters: 'Butter and Jelly'

Elements: Dynamics using the tongue twister line ‘Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread’

Notation: 2 lines of notation, body percussion

Musician of the Month: Beethoven's 'Moonlight Sonata'

Listen & Respond: ‘Moonlight Sonata' by Beethoven - Line rider video (focus on dynamics)

Performance of the Week: Liv Charly solo! 

Wednesday, 12th May 2021

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Objectives covered this week:

Breathing Exercises: Rainbow Breathing

Body Percussion: 5th Symphony linked to the body percussion performance video (scroll down)

Tongue Twisters: 'Black background, brown background'

Inter-related dimension of music:  Dynamics

Notation: crotchet, minim, semi-quavers, crotchet rest using dynamics

Listen & Respond: 5th Symphony line rider video showing dynamics

Musician of the Month: Beethoven linked to Character Curriculum traits for KS2 Adventure Week!

Performance of the week: Mr Charly and Liv reinterpret ‘Run to you’ by Bryan Adams 

Wednesday, 5th May 2021

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Wednesday, 28th April 2021

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Wednesday, 21st April 2021

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Wednesday, 31st March 2021

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Wednesday, 24th March 2021

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Wednesday, 17th March 2021

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Wednesday, 10th March 2021

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Wednesday, 3rd March 2021

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Wednesday, 24th February 2021

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Wednesday, 10th February 2021

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Wednesday, 3rd February 2021

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Wednesday, 27th January 2021

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