Early years music

Movement with music @SmithdownPr @sendco_s

Nursery – music ?

Movement and music ? @SmithdownPr @sendco_s

Music with Mrs Naylor

Music with Mrs Naylor’s scarfs today ???

Music with Mrs Naylor ???

Music with Mrs Naylor ???

Dancing and freezing to the beat in music today…

We had lots of fun in music this morning dancing and freezing to the beat. #smithdowneyfs #smithdownmusic @ResonateHub

We enjoyed our very first music lesson yesterday!

We enjoyed our very first music lesson yesterday! #smithdowneyfs #smithdownmusic

Music lessons with Mrs Naylor!

We all love our music lessons with Mrs Naylor! #smithdowneyfs #smithdownmusic

Dancing with scarves in our music lesson

Dancing with scarves in our music lesson. #smithdowneyfs #smithdownmusic @SmithdownPr

First music lesson with Mrs Naylor!

We are enjoying our first music lesson with Mrs Naylor! #smithdownmusic @SmithdownPrimR

This morning we learnt a Harvest song in our music ? assembly

This morning we learnt a Harvest song in our music ? assembly. We are really enjoying practising this song about this special time of year #smithdownmusic

Year 4 had a wonderful morning!

Year 4 had a wonderful morning! They were amazing learning their first note on their trumpets. #smithdownmusic

4KM had a great music lesson playing their trumpets…

4KM had a great music lesson playing their trumpets, the children were even able to learn a new note?? #smithdownmusic @ResonateHub

4KM had a great music lesson this morning?

4KM had a great music lesson this morning? the children also learnt how to play a new note? @ResonateHub #smithdownmusic

We had our first ukulele session last week

We had our first ukulele session last week. Chords and frets ???#smithdownmusic

It’s that time again! ????

We love our ukulele lessons ??

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Composing music to fit a character.

We have been thinking of actions and qualities to fit a character. We’re now choosing and using percussion instruments to play to represent our character, their qualities and actions with music. ? ? ? ?

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Playing Indonesian Gamalan music today ? ?

We’ve learnt about ‘Gamalan’ music, traditional music in Indonesia, and now we’re playing in groups our own versions.

2GH – ?Continents???

We have been busy learning the continents song today!

Year 3 are really starting to focus in their practice with our recorders! Super work.

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Wow what a performance in our Y1 music assembly!

Listening to the harp in music today.

Reception have been listening to Mrs Naylor play the harp in our music lesson today!

Thank you to Mrs Naylor for our wonderful Music Assembly today 🎶 🎤

ISing has started and we are so excited!

We are loving iSing so far

ISing 2024

A few more pictures! More videos to come soon!  We are so proud of Year 2.

2GH on the way into ISing 24

Look at those smiles! Ready for a day of singing!

Singing Assembly!

I love starting off our Wednesdays with our singing assembly. It puts a smile on all our faces and gets us ready for our work.

The Big Teddy Bear Sleepover

Wow we have had a great time for our Big Teddy Bear Sleepover! First we started with a super singing assembly with Mrs Naylor. It was fun singing and dancing with our teddies. Then we made our teddies a bed to sleep in. We could not believe what they got up too when we went home. This morning we woke our teddies up with a lovely breakfast.

Music in Reception

We really enjoyed singing songs and listening to the sounds of the ukulele in music today.

Ukulele Time

Ukulele lesson this morning in Y6

We are really enjoying our ukulele lessons and learning so much. 🎼🎶🎼🎵

Year 4 Ukulele

A wonderful morning learning the ukulele. We even had some amazing solo performances!

Music time 🎶

We are really trying hard to get the notes on the ukulele. The finger positioning is so difficult!

Year 3 Hands

Year 3 had another great ‘Hands’ practice. We are really enjoying learning new sign language.

Learning “Three little birds” in our music lesson

Today we use glockenspiels and xylophones in our music lesson to play the C triad and the F triad. We played this to Bob Marley’s “Three little birds”.

Ukulele

We loved our morning learning the C and F chord.

Music 🎶

Today we used special scarves to sing a song in music.

Pumpkin Song

We sang a pumpkin song today!

Music Time !

We’re using a range of percussion instruments to tap out beats and rhythms in music today.

Exploring loud and quiet sounds like the girl in our story. 🎶

🎵🎶 Ukulele Time

Once again, we are trying so hard at becoming great ukulele players …

Fireworks 🎆 Today we have mage firework gloop, chocolate sparklers and glittery firework pictures.

Our wonderful campfire 🪵

Today we have loved our class campfire. We enjoyed toasting the marshmallows, creating a s’more and having some hot chocolate. We even had a blast from the past with some children’s songs and rhymes.

International Slavery Museum trip

Yesterday we had a great time at the International Slavery Museum. We had a workshop in the ‘legacies of the transatlantic slave trade’ and then had time to explore the museum with our task sheets. 

5 currant buns in the bakers shop.

It’s beginning to look like Christmas…

Celebrating differences 🌎

For our PSHE lesson we are celebrating differences. In previous weeks we have spoken about racism, bullying and rumours and now we are researching a range of countries and what their culture looks like.

Year 4 Ukulele

We’ve been working so hard this half term in music. The improvement in our playing is amazing!

Parent assembly and activities Year 3

We had a lovely morning with our Hands assembly and our DT craft activities. Thank you to all our adults who turned up to support us.

Christmas party and pantomime

We have had the best day today…

First, the children were visited by Santa 🎅🏽 who told the class how good they had all been. We were then all treated to the most tasty Christmas dinner. We then went back to class to enjoy yet another favourite treat of ice-cream whilst watching the ‘Beauty and Beast’ panto. What a great 🎉 party day!

We are getting down to the beat with our new book. 📕 🥁 🎵

We have been busy getting to the beat with Skunka and Tanka. 🪘 🥁

5JH Lion dance to celebrate the Lunar new year! 🐲

We had an amazing afternoon in our lion dancing workshop. Happy Lunar New Year!

Slow and fast music

Using our body to to move fast and slow to the music.

Music lessons

In music, we had a great lesson singing our new song ‘Tongo’ whilst using the glockenspiel. We are really enjoying the new skills taught during our music lessons.

Musical afternoon for Y6

Reading music 🎶 🎼 to play the glockenspiel.

Claves in Reception

We have had a great time playing the claves in music. We had to keep to a beat and then stop!

Violin in Music

We listened to the lovely sounds of the violin and sang along to Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.

Music Time

Using different instruments in music today.

Instruments in Reception

We have been using the claves to make different sounds.

Samba time !

What a great way to start the week – some samba drumming!

Happy Father’s Day🌟

Thank you all for coming to our Father’s / Special Person assembly 🌟 the children worked so hard practicing both songs and making their lovely art work. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did!

Singing in Music

We are practicing songs for our big teddy bear sleepover coming up on Wednesday 9th July at 2.15pm! All parents and families welcome.

Beatlemania!

What a lovely afternoon celebrating The Beatles!

BeatleMania 🎶

We loved taking part in BeatleMania today!

”We all lived in a yellow submarine!” 🎶

Thank you Mrs Carpenter for organising our Beatlemania day, we had so much fun singing along 🎤

Thank you to everyone for joining us for our wonderful music assemblies with Mrs Naylor. 🎶