Singing Assemblies - Week 10!

Wow, 10 weeks in... Hope you're all doing ok. Here are your wonderful moments of singing for the week.

EYFS Singing Assembly 10: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jgOSko57qY

Upper and Lower Phase Singing Assembly 10 - Read All About It (the second half...)

LAST WEEK WE STARTED LEARNING THIS SONG - WATCH THAT VIDEO FIRST HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6E6FdXbIuA

This week, we'll finish learning the song and sing it all through. Here's the new bits:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6gpKiNRLQU

Happy singing everyone :-)

Singing Assemblies - Week 9!

Hello marvellous musicians, here are your super songs for smart singing...

EYFS Singing Assembly 9:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSo5GujhFss

Upper and Lower Phase Singing Assembly 9 - Read All About It, by Emeli Sande

Continuing our theme of songs to fight racism and change the world, here's a wonderful song about finding your voice, and standing up for what's right. This is a long one, so we're only going to learn half of it this week - watch out for the second half next week!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6E6FdXbIuA

Enjoy...

Singing Assemblies - Week 8!

It's Week 8! Wow, what a lot of singing.

Continuing our anti-racist focus, Upper and Lower Phases will be singing the gorgeous, timeless Lift Every Voice And Sing. This song is one of the most cherished songs of the African American Civil Rights Movement - enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz_vc3tvERw

Early Years are returning to If You Miss Me At The Back Of The Bus, as well as learning a few new songs as well. Have a good time...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1rVjHZfStM

Happy singing everyone!

Singing Assemblies - Week 7!

Hi all,

We're continuing our anti-racist theme this week. Two brilliant assemblies for you:

Upper and Lower Phase Singing Assembly - Something Inside So Strong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M81vUhnCA1Y

Early Years Singing Assembly - If You Miss Me At The Back Of The Bus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFB2FVrIrns

Happy singing everyone!

Singing Assemblies - Week 6!

Hi all,

Upper and Lower Phase will be singing together this week, singing songs about fighting injustice and racism. We've got three songs to sing - We Are A Choir Of Many Colours, Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around, and We Shall Overcome - in response to the current anti-racist protests in the USA.
https://youtu.be/YTLAseI_ftE

EYFS have got fantastic songs about a trip to the jungle, and a trip to a train station... enjoy!
https://youtu.be/6Vgdhem-RAM

Happy singing everyone...

Singing Assemblies - Week 5!

Hello everyone! Here are the Week 5 Singing Assemblies:

EYFS part 1 of 2, featuring the Gruffalo Song... https://youtu.be/_vdAwJIhAA4

EYFS part 2 of 2, featuring Three Little Birds by Bob Marley  https://youtu.be/JUrtPN7370s

Lower Phase: Knees Up Mother Brown! https://youtu.be/Trp--wWMz4o

Upper Phase: Lean On Me part 1 of 2, warm up and learning the song https://youtu.be/FVWre_wid44

Upper Phase: Lean On Me part 2 of 2, singing the song https://youtu.be/eEVKUpOK3LI

Happy singing everyone...

Singing Assemblies - week 4

This week, Nursery and Reception are learning a new song about dinosaurs and singing some old favourites, Lower Phase are making up silly rhymes in The Quartermaster’s Stores, and Upper Phase are singing South African freedom song Shosholoza in up to three parts as once!

Eyfs part 1 https://youtu.be/AoevUfJYSgU

Eyfs part 2 https://youtu.be/MNZznnDSA5c

Lower phase https://youtu.be/ZMfUkl1kNqg

Upper Phase part 1 https://youtu.be/s3m757AzAgg

Upper Phase part 2 https://youtu.be/xV7CrMn095A

Hackney Music Service's amazing list of online resources!

Hi everyone,



The wonderful, fantastic people of at Hackney Music Service have put together a BRILLIANT list of all the online music resources that you can visit, listen to, watch and play with. It's here:

http://www.hackneymusic.co.uk/online-learning-resources/

Have an explore! There's SO much stuff here, and really helpfully arranged by age, type, platform... it's a LOT of stuff. Go make some music, and do send in examples of your work to me or your class teachers if you want to...

Singing Assemblies! Week 3

Hi all, here are the week 3 singing assemblies. Enjoy!

Early Years:

Part 1 of 2 https://youtu.be/AoevUfJYSgU

Part 2 of 2: https://youtu.be/MNZznnDSA5c

Lower Phase: In The Quartermaster's Stores (featuring silly rhymes...)

https://youtu.be/ZMfUkl1kNqg

Upper Phase: Shosholoza!

Part 1 of 2 - warm up and learning the song https://youtu.be/s3m757AzAgg

Part 2 of 2: singing the song (in multiple parts! Very clever...) https://youtu.be/xV7CrMn095A

Enjoy....

Musical challenge - create your own guitar!

Here's my attempt to make a musical instrument out of junk modelling - it started as a guitar, but it's ended up making such a low-pitched sound that it's definitely a bass guitar rather than a normal one. Can you make your own instrument from things in your home? You could build drums, shakers, scrapers, string instruments, even something you blow into to make a noise...

https://youtu.be/MAGP7ITNQ7M

Singing assemblies! Week 2

Happy singing everyone! Do feel free to watch them all, I’m quite proud of these ones... also featuring my favourite musical T-shirt.

EYFS (Nursery and Reception) https://youtu.be/yUfL8CiEUto

Lower Phase: Three Little Birds (with makaton actions!)  https://youtu.be/bBfECq_QcCE

Upper Phase: Let It Be part 1 of 2 (warm up and learning the song) https://youtu.be/uPYJyo5Osk4

Upper Phase: Let It Be part 2 of 2 (singing the whole song through) https://youtu.be/R-NYdo8mkNQ

 

Enjoy!

Dafydd

Singing Assemblies! Week 1

Hi everyone!

This week's singing assemblies are up on the school website, but here they are as well, for your viewing and singing pleasure. Have a sing! (pssst... you're even allowed to listen and sing along with the ones that aren't for your year group...)

EYFS (Nursery and Reception):
Part 1 of 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWjIIyJ5X1c

Part 2 of 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI_F22NktmQ

Lower Phase(Y1-3):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4kOzyPBtH4&feature=youtu.be

Upper Phase (Y4-6):
Part 1 of 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdV3ia1jnw8

Part 2 of 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng9A7EExI-A

It's still early days for us teachers, getting used to how best to put things online for you all, so thank you for your patience! What I learned this week is that uploading long videos to YouTube takes aaaaaaaaaaaaaages. It's all part of the educational experience...

As always, please do get your grownups to email in any examples of the music you've been making at home!

Listening to Music - a challenge!

Hi everyone...

We hear music as part of our everyday lives, even in these unusual times - in the background on the radio, accompanying tv programmes, while we exercise, as a way of filling up a silent space and making it a bit more busy...

But how much do we actually listen?

Here's a musical challenge - find a piece of music and really listen to it. What can you hear? How does it make you feel in response? Here's some questions to think about - this could be interesting for anyone, whether you're in Reception, Year 6, or even an ancient grownup.

You don't need to answer all of these! Just pick one or two, and go from there. Your class teachers and I would love to get your answers to any of these - do please email them back in, using the usual email addresses to contact teachers.

Part 1: What can you actually hear?

• What happened first? Singing? Instruments? Can you write down the order that things happen in?
• How much is happening in the music? Is there only one person? Lots of people and instruments? Is it all being done by a computer?
• Does it sound like anything you've heard before?
• Can you sing any of it back? Can you clap the rhythms, or copy the drumbeat on your knees? Can you work out how to play any of it on an instrument?
• Can you use any of the musical vocabulary you've learnt to describe what you can hear?

Part 2: How does it make you feel?

• How does it make you feel?
• Does it make you imagine a story? (Can you write that story down, or tell it to someone else?)
• Does it make you imagine a place? (Can you draw that place?)
• Does it make you imagine a character? Or two characters, or more? (What are they like? can you draw or describe them?)
• Does the music make you want to move? Stomp? Jump? Spin? Can you move in a way that matches the music?

You could do this with any piece of music! 

It could be something you know already, or something you've never heard before.

The BBC Ten Pieces website has got some fantastic examples of exciting pieces of classical music to listen to - expand your mind!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/ten-pieces/intro-films-and-orchestral-films/zv2gqp3

If you come up with any answers to any of these questions, ask your grownups to email your ideas to me or to your class teachers! We'd love to hear your brilliant ideas...

Music... at home!

Hi everyone!

We stopped using this blog a few years ago, but now you're all at home, it seems like a good way to help you to keep making music!

This music blog is going to be updated regularly with suggestions of things to do, ways to make music, songs to sing, and examples of anything that you send in to share with the rest of the school community.

COMPOSE SOME MUSIC CHALLENGE:

First of all, here are some great free online music making tools and games. You can save and share your music on lots of them - why not ask your grownups to email your best recordings to the school office, and I'll put them up on this website next week!

• Chrome music lab - loads of cool ways of playing with electronic music
• Tonematrix - you know, that thing we do in class with all the squares...
• Groove Pizza - this is an awesome way of building beats
• Sampulator - fun electronic drumkit that uses your computer keyboard - record and save your best grooves!
• Qwertybeats - another fun electronic drumkit that uses your computer keyboard
• Superlooper - and even another electronic drumkit that uses your computer keyboard
• Incredibox - build catchy tunes, using vocal sounds. Can you find the hidden bonus tracks?
• Drumbit - build your own drumbeats!
• Beat Maker - another way to build and record drumbeats
• Audiotool - ok, this one is a bit complicated. It's like tonematrix's big sibling. You'll have to get a grownup to help you make a free account, but if you can get the hang on it, it's really powerful. Maybe try this one if you're in Year 6, find garageband in school too easy, and want a bigger challenge...

Hopefully you'll find something interesting in all of that. If you can save any of your work, and get your grownup to email it to the school office, I'll put it up on this blog next week. Get working...

Dafydd :)

ps... us teachers really miss you guys, and hope you're all ok. Enjoy the links above!