Music: Blog items
Date: 18th Sep 2025 @ 9:14am
In Year Two, we looked at the skills of Listening and Appraising and Improvising. We listened to the song Boléro and thought about what we liked and disliked and linked it to the Elements of Music. We then got a range of percussion instruments and thought about what they sounded like, what the pitch was and if we liked and disliked them. We used our oracy skills and ABC to think about the different instruments. The children then had a go at playing the different instruments and improvising along to Boléro.
Year 3 - Musical Journey into Country Music
Date: 12th Sep 2025 @ 7:22pm
Over the last two weeks, Year 3 have been exploring the delightful world of Country Music! They've had a wonderful time listening to and appraising the heartfelt song, 'Home Is Where The Heart Is'. This week, they took it a step further and learned the song, performing it beautifully in unison. It's been amazing to see their enthusiasm and teamwork shine through! What a fantastic first couple of weeks back; I can’t wait to see where our musical journey takes us next!
Date: 11th Sep 2025 @ 12:50pm
Over the last two weeks, Year One have been immersed in the catchy song, 'Find The Beat' during our music lessons. They’ve picked up the essential musical vocabulary—words, pulse, rhythms, and pitch—enabling them to actively Listen and Describe Music. This week, the children truly shone as they learned and performed the song, complete with actions, singing in unison with great enthusiasm. What a wonderful start to our music journey! We can't wait for what’s next!
Date: 11th Sep 2025 @ 7:39am
Today we were listening and appraising. Next we reviewed the Elements of Music .To get us ready we warmed up by completing the copy back activities to find the pulse and named the notes onscreen. Using the Music listening Mats, we then listened to Ghost Parade and discussed the instruments we could hear. This song is in 20th and 21st Orchestral style with vocal. To refresh our memories we looked at how an orchestra is set up and which instruments are in one. We listened to different instruments. Next we created a class mind map of our responses to the music. Finally we began to learn the lyrics to the song so that we could perform it.
Date: 10th Sep 2025 @ 6:43pm
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Thank to School Supplier, Boundary have received a set of acoustic guitars. Children across school will benefit from these instruments!
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In this picture are six of our children who attend guitar lessons through school with a peripetetic teacher. The children work hard every week with Mr Stone to learn a wide range of songs and chords.
Year 2- Listening and Appraising!
Date: 8th Sep 2025 @ 4:56pm
In Year Two, we have begun our new music journey with listening and appraising. The children thought about what skills they needed to be successful in this topic and then we went on to listen to the song ‘Music in my soul’. We thought about what we liked and disliked about the song, linking our thoughts to the elements of music. We then focused on the tempo, articulation, beat and dynamics of the song and made notes in our partners, linking to this song.
Date: 20th Jun 2025 @ 3:11pm
Acorns have been using their music sessions to explore instruments but also to support the learning and progression in a variety of areas, including being part of a group, sustaining focus and concentration and engagement.
This week Acorns have been focusing on making and communicating choices verbally and non verbally, using visuals and signing. After exploring a bariety of instruments, we engaged in choosing our preferred instrument out of a choice of three. The recorder, drum or xylophone. Mrs Richardson modelled choice making and we all communicated a choice, including not wanting to play an instrument. Take a look at our learning!
Date: 19th Jun 2025 @ 9:14am
Year 4 learned about funk music this week.
The children really enjoyed listening to a variety of funk music and finding out where it originated from. The children selected the song 'September' by Earth, Wind and Fire and sang it with enthusiasm in class! The children could not stop themselves from swaying and moving to the music.
Date: 17th Jun 2025 @ 9:58am
For our music learning, Year Three looked at making comparisons between music in similar genres. The children looked at Jazz music and looked at what features were similar in theses pieces of music. We identified the use of improvisation with both voice and instruments, then we looked at scatting. We made comparative links between the pieces and thought about which was the best piece and why.
Date: 12th Jun 2025 @ 9:00am
This week we used music staves and the glockenspiels to create our own music. We focused on using the notes C, D, E, G and A and making sure they were written on the staves accurately.
Year 3 - Improvising and Composing
Date: 15th May 2025 @ 8:46pm
In Music this week, we used YUMU on Charanga and composed our own piece of music using notes F G A. We began by exploring the notes and compsing a rhytam of our own. We then concentrated on creating our own ostinato – making sure that each line was the same, or at least every other line was the same. We enjoyed using these range of notes and also explored with the lengths of notes, 4 beats, 3 beats, 2 beats and 1 beat.
Date: 15th May 2025 @ 9:15am
In music, Year 2 listen and appraised the music from ET- The flying theme. We also watched the clip from the film to see how the music had an effect on the scene. We thought about the instruments, dynamtics, pitch, tempo and we shared our thoughts and feelings on the piece. We then had a final practise of the song 'I wanna play in a band' and performed the peice with actions.
Date: 15th May 2025 @ 8:22am
In today's lesson, Year 5 took inspiration from 'Look into The Night', a piece of K-Pop music, and composed their own pieces using the Charanga software 'YUMU'. This is an aopportunity for children to use their knowledge of notes, composition, affect and timing as well as their own creativity to compose and perform their composed pieces.
Date: 1st May 2025 @ 9:02am
This is the second lesson where all the musical learning and activities will be focused around the song Look Into The Night. In this lesson we Listened to and Appraised Look into the Night – this time focussing specifically on its genre, tempo and our opinions. We used our music stem sentences to give our opinions and to comment on the songs structure. Finally, we used the glockenspiels to play along with Look into the Night – we found this very difficult!
"This has a VERY fast tempo – it’s called ALLEGRO"
Alexander
"K-Pop means Korean Pop"
Darius
Date: 1st May 2025 @ 8:13am
In today’s lesson, we recapped the Elements of Music PP, focusing on Tempo, tonality and instruments in the orchestra. Then, using the listening mats and stem sentences we listened and appraised - Train is A-Comin’.
Our focus questions were: How does it make you feel? What's the genre and style?
Where does this song fit with the world?
What time/era was the song made?
What’s the song about?
Instruments you can hear?
Afterwards, we discussed Harriet Tubman and started to learn to sing the song.
Date: 24th Apr 2025 @ 11:09am
In the next two lessons, all the musical learning and activities will be focussed around the song Look Into The Night. Learn all about K-pop music with Look Into The Night. K-pop is a style of Pop music that began in the 1990s in South Korea and is now very popular all around the world!
Date: 6th Apr 2025 @ 2:41pm
Acorns have enjoyed their music sessions this term. We have used the weekly sessions to explore the recorder and xylophone.
We have loved creating our own music and developing our focus and concentration skills and learning to work in a small group adult led activity for extended periods.
Date: 3rd Apr 2025 @ 9:09am
On Wednesday a range of children across school performed in our music concert. We had choir, peripatetic drummers, samba, Shakespeare, peripatetic guitars and School Alive. All the children were wonderful, and should be very proud of their hard work!
Reception Music during Spring Term
Date: 26th Mar 2025 @ 11:39pm
We began this term by learning lots of winter songs. Snowflakes, Snowflakes and I’m a Little Snowman were some of our favourites. We learnt songs and explored music linked with Chinese New Year. Recently we have focused on learning animal songs. We all love Tiger, Tiger Orange and Black and Walking Though the Jungle. We continue to learn lots of Nursery Rhyme and songs to help with speaking, phonics as well as our musical understanding.
We can now name many percussion instruments and have experimented playing maracas, claves, drums, glockenspiels and tambourines. We can stop and start together and can nearly keep a steady beat as a class!
Year 3 - Improvising and composing!
Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 9:17am
In Year 3, we have been looking at composing and improvising skills. The children used the Glockenspiels to accompany the track “You’re a shining star”. Firstly, the children used the notes G, A, B , C, D to improvise with the music. When then uses a 4/4 score paper to compose our own piece along with the backing track.
Date: 10th Feb 2025 @ 9:19am
Last Monday some of our KS2 children wowed audiences in The Winter Gardens for Schools Alive. The children have worked incredibly hard since September to create a piece called ‘We are all in this together!’. They should be very proud of all they achieved, well done!
Date: 4th Feb 2025 @ 3:56pm
This week, we had a go at composing our own music using Charanga for the song we have been learning 'Bringing Us Together'.
Date: 30th Jan 2025 @ 10:41am
In Music our focus question is ‘How Does Music Improve Our World?’. In our third lesson we sung the Freedom is Coming song again, changing the key and the dynamics. We then used Chromebooks to composed using YUMU through charanga, composing using our own ABA structure using the notes provided recap Ternary form.
Date: 24th Jan 2025 @ 12:07pm
Reception had a great time this week when Travelling by Tuba visited our school.
They listened to the different sounds instruments make, some made a high pitch sound and others a low pitch sound. They clapped their hands and knees to the beat, looked at historical instruments and other instruments from around the world.
Date: 23rd Jan 2025 @ 5:44pm
Today we were lucky enough to work with Travelling by Tuba. In our whole school assembly, we were taken on a trip around the world, where we listened to different pieces of music played on lots of different instruments. In the afternoon, we were then lucky enough to take part in a workshop where we all learnt to play an instrument. We learnt the rhythm and how to play each instrument, before coming together to perform our final piece!
