Music: Blog items
Date: 17th Dec 2025 @ 1:50pm
In our final Royal Opera House Magic Flute lesson, we brought together all the skills and knowledge we’ve built throughout the last half-term.
We began by revisiting our year group’s composers and reflecting on the musical ideas we’ve explored. Then we warmed up with the lively “Pa Pa Pa” vocal exercise and completed a character role call to refresh our understanding of the story and its key personalities.
To finish, we came together as a full class choir for a joyful performance of “Pa Pa Pa Papageno,” celebrating both our learning and our confidence as performers.
Date: 16th Dec 2025 @ 4:28pm
What a fantastic performance from all of our Nursery children at this years Christmas Sing Along! The children have been working so hard to learn our Christmas songs and sang their hearts out for their families. Well done everyone, we're so proud of you!
Date: 16th Dec 2025 @ 12:08pm
This week the children in nativity have performed our annual 'Wriggly Nativity'. The children performed brilliantly singing the songs beautifully, participating in the dances as well as remembering where to stand on stage. They looked fantastic in their costumes and we are so proud of every single child.
Reception rehearse the Nativity
Date: 12th Dec 2025 @ 9:59am
As part of our learning about why Christians Christmas we have been preparing our annual Nativity performance. The children have been busy learning the songs and actions as well as practising when they need to move and stand on stage. We are very proud of how the children have listened carefully and shown patience and hardwork during rehearsals. They can't wait to put their costumes on and perform the the rest of the school and their families next week.
Date: 4th Dec 2025 @ 9:29am
Date: 3rd Dec 2025 @ 12:01pm
This week, we listen and appraised the Rocking Romans song 'Spin that coin'. Then we had a go at singing it. There were numerous instrumentals in the song, so we used two notes on our glockenspiels (G and A) to play along during the instrumental. We were really good!
Date: 6th Nov 2025 @ 7:57pm
Nursery Get a Little Bit Spooky
Date: 6th Nov 2025 @ 2:51pm
Nursery got a little bit spooky this week as we celebrated Halloween. The children have been busy making potions, creating a witch using different shapes, making pumpkins out of playdough and practising their cutting skills by giving a witch a hair cut! They have also been exploring light and shadow by using halloween torches in the black out tent and helped some spiders to find all 8 of their missing legs! Its been a very spooky week!
Year 2- Learning to Listen and Appraise!
Date: 10th Oct 2025 @ 2:11pm
Year Two had a fantastic time listening to “Eye of the Tiger”! The song made us feel strong, brave, and ready for anything. We clapped, danced, and talked about never giving up. We thought about what instruments we could hear, what type of music it was and what the tempo was.
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!
