Music

Violin in Music

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

Claves in Reception

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

Musical afternoon for Y6

Reading music to play the glockenspiel.

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.

Slow and fast music

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

5JH Lion dance to celebrate the Lunar new year!

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

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

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

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!

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.

Year 4 Ukulele

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

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.

It’s beginning to look like Christmas…

5 currant buns in the bakers shop.

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. 

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.

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

Ukulele Time

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

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

Music Time !

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

Pumpkin Song

We sang a pumpkin song today!

Music

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

Ukulele

We loved our morning learning the C and F chord.

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”.

Year 3 Hands

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

Music time

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

Year 4 Ukulele

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

Ukulele lesson this morning in Y6

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

Ukulele Time

Music in Reception

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

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.

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.

2GH on the way into ISing 24

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

ISing 2024

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

ISing has started and we are so excited!

We are loving iSing so far

Thank you to Mrs Naylor for our wonderful Music Assembly today

Listening to the harp in music today.

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

Wow what a performance in our Y1 music assembly!

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

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2GH – ?Continents???

We have been busy learning the continents song today!

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.

We love Wednesdays! It’s time for ?

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. ? ? ? ?

It’s that time again! ????

We love our ukulele lessons ??

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We had our first ukulele session last week

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

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

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

Year 4 had a wonderful morning!

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

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

First music lesson with Mrs Naylor!

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

Dancing with scarves in our music lesson

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

Music lessons with Mrs Naylor!

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

We enjoyed our very first music lesson yesterday!

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

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

Music with Mrs Naylor ???

Music with Mrs Naylor ???

Music with Mrs Naylor

Music with Mrs Naylor’s scarfs today ???

Nursery – music ?

Movement and music ? @SmithdownPr @sendco_s

Early years music

Movement with music @SmithdownPr @sendco_s