Music at Sea View
Purpose of study
Music is a universal language that embodies one of the highest forms of creativity. A high quality music education should engage and inspire pupils to develop a love of music and their talent as musicians, and so increase their self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement. As pupils progress, they should develop a critical engagement with music, allowing them to compose, and to listen with discrimination to the best in the musical canon.
Meet Melody Music.
Melody Music is part of our Curriculum Crew who is introduced at the start of each topic and lesson, providing a visual link to lessons and allows our children to focus on the skills needed in the upcoming tasks.
Melody is featured as part of our Music pathway journey - allowing the children to revisit prior learning .
Aims
The national curriculum for music aims to ensure that all pupils:
- perform, listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of historical periods, genres, styles and traditions, including the works of the great composers and musicians
- learn to sing and to use their voices, to create and compose music on their own and with others, have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument, use technology appropriately and have the opportunity to progress to the next level of musical excellence
- understand and explore how music is created, produced and communicated, including through the inter-related dimensions: pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure and appropriate musical notations.
2024 - 2025
Nursery
We practised moving in different ways and at different speeds to the music on the board, then took the music outside. We took turns in playing the Djembe drum in the outdoor area, playing it at different speeds and volume for our friends to move accordingly to.
We used the scarves to move to the music in different ways and at different speeds. We sang along to 'Walking in the jungle' and pretended that we had lion's tails. We then lay as sleeping lions on the carpet and listened to the rain maker as Mrs Henderson turned it over to make the sound. We thought it sounded like a snake or rain.
We used little Easter eggs and spoons to make our Easter shakers and used them to accompany our singing.
Reception
I'm a tall Giraffe
RLR - I'm a tall giraffe
Year 1
We have been listening to a range of different music to understand beat and pulse. We have discussed opinions on different songs and listened for which instruments are involved.
'Hey You' is our song of the half term that we have been learning. We have learned the rap and song verses and even added some drumming to the performance to show the pulse of the music!
The Rap Verse
The Singing Verse
Year 2
In year 2 we have been learning how to play the glockenspiel. We have been following a structure of lessons to learning the different notes and key changes to follow a song and play the instrument. The children have had lots of fun with this.
Year 3
This term we are exploring the R & B song by Joanna Mangona called Let your Spirit Fly. We are learning how to play the glockenspiel in time to the music, sing and move in rhythm.
Year 4
Harvest Festival
We have enjoyed practising for our Harvest Festival performance, learning songs, reciting poetry and performing a story about the origins of a loaf of bread.
Year 5
We are enjoying our singing sessions with Durham Cathedral Music Outreach. We can't wait to perform at Durham Cathedral in our celebration event!
Year 6
This term we are enjoying our keyboard lessons with Mr Storey. He has introduced the children to the techniques and some of the musical notation needed to play effectively.
2023-2024
Nursery
Play on your instruments!
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We celebrated Chinese New Year by playing instruments and dancing to Chinese music in the hall and doing a parade back to the classroom as we wished people 'Kung Hei Fat Choi!'
We used our bodies to make percussion noises by clapping, clicking, tapping or stamping. We used our auditory memory to take in the sounds and actions and to be able to recall and repeat them. We also used different everyday objects in the outdoor area to create sounds, exploring how objects made from different materials made different sounds.
Reception
We have been learning about Chinese New Year and learnt a song about the Great Animal Race. We made some musical instruments and played some during our performance in class.
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We have been reading the story 'Giraffes Can't Dance' and so we made a musical instrument, a shaker. We used our finger tip to create giraffe like patterns and then filled the shaker up with rice. We then used our musical instrument to shake along to the song we learnt, 'I am a tall Giraffe'….
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Year 1
We have practised clapping to a rhythm and keeping in time with the pulse. We have identified different instruments used in pieces of music.
As part of our module, we have learned the song Hey You!
We learned this as a song and as a rap to learn how different genres of music impact the sound of the words.
Hey You! Rap Verse
Hey You! Song Verse
Our composer of the term is Vivaldi. We have listened to The Four Seasons as part of our music and science topics. We listened to the sounds of each season and discussed what made it match the season and what it made us think of. We discussed other composers, such as Rossini, and compared their work.
We have taken part in lots of singing sessions and enjoyed learning new songs, such as A Little Bit of Kindness. We love to sing together!
Year 2
Year 2 have been using Charanga to learn songs about friendship. We appraised lots of different songs by famous artists and learned the lyrics to our song. We have also used tune percussion to add to our performance and explored the use of glockenspiels.
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Year 3
We are enjoying learning how to play the glockenspiel to accompany our song for this term 'Let Your Spirit Fly'. We love exploring the lyrics in the song and talking about how the music makes us feel.
Year 4
We are enjoying learning to play the recorder! We have learnt how to hold it correctly as well as learning how to play different notes. We have started to play songs with the recorders!
Year 5
We have been studying Hip Hop style of music and have been learning the song"The Fresh Prince of Bel Air". We added our own musical accompaniment inspired on the Hip Hop beat.
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Year 5
Performance at Durham Cathedral.
We are so excited to be working with the Lead Conductor, Mr Lee, from Durham Cathedral. Mr Lee is preparing us for a special performance at Durham Cathedral in March. We have had great fun learning how to follow a conductor, sing in rounds and perform infront of an audience.
Livin' On A Prayer.
This term in music we have been Livin' On A Prayer., embracing and enjoying the musical genre of Rock! As well as learning to sing, play, improvise and compose with this song, we have also enjoyed listening and appraising other classic rock songs by Queen, Deep Purple, Chuck Berry and The Beatles.
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Year 6
Tchaikovsky
We have been studying and listening to the work of Tchaikovsky and his classical music. Take a look at our information based on his song ‘The Nutcracker’…
Happy
We have had so much fun learning the song ‘Happy’ by Pharrell Williams in Music. Year 6 practised rhythm and pulse exercises and danced to the beat of the music before performing it altogether.
