We have had a brilliant last week of term making music and playing Twinkle Twinkle’ on the glockenspiel. 3HJ excelled in keeping time, playing with tunes, tones and creating melodies. We have a whole class full of talented musicians,
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A Musical Masterpiece
As an end to Case Study Three, 3LG had a fabulous time this afternoon making music and playing instruments. We can now officially play Twinkle Twinkle on the glockenspiel! It has been so exciting playing around with tunes, tones and melodies over the last few weeks, cumulating in playing a song today.
Case Study 3 – Music
3HJ have thoroughly embraced our third and final case study. This week has seen us stacking ostinato, reading rhythms and playing them simultaneously using non-tuned percussion.
Who? With what? And where?
Maths lessons are far more enjoyable when they include a murder mystery! This week, y5 put their investigative skills to the test to solve the mystery of who murdered the young millionaire, Henry Baskerville, following a dinner party at Baskerville Hall. Our young detectives had to calculate the perimeter of all the rooms in the hall in order to generate an 8-digit code, which opened the padlocked journal of the murderer. Who needs Sherlock Holmes with y5 on the case!
Recording our charity single
Yesterday, LKS2 visited XP to record our verses of our beautiful and thought provoking charity single. As well as smashing the vocals we also had a tour of a professional recording studio. We had chance to look at the equipment needed to produce a song and even tried out some of the musical instruments too! Safe to say we need a little more practice before creating our own music!
Recording Artists
Yesterday LKS2 headed to XP to record our section of Dear World. We worked really hard, sang our hearts out and it paid off with the final recording sounding superb. We also got a tour of a professional recording studio, and had a talk all about the equiptment and work that goes into making the music we hear on the radio. To finish the day we even got to try out some of the instruments in the studio, and had particular fun with the drum set!
World Book Day!
It was wonderful to spend this year’s World Book Day with both years 5 and 3 as they celebrated their favourite works of literature with some fantastic costumes and themed activities!
World Book Day
Did someone say pancakes?
What a treat we had this morning eating these delicious pancakes in Crew! Wish we could start the day like this everyday!
Digital Leaders visit XP!
As part of their training, NJS’ newly appointed Digital Leaders visited XP today to learn more about their role and how they can help not only their peers but the staff as well.
The children were divided into groups and asked to find answer to the ‘fantastic problem’: school staff lacking the confidence or knowledge to use new technology or apps in the classroom. After collating ideas and a rationale for why we need DLs, the children presented their ideas to their peers from other schools, an audience of at least 100! Well done to all involved! 👍🏼