Robins made use of their creative skills, working together, perseverance and concentration.
They have made their own actions to the Euro 2020 theme tune. Hope you like it!
Category Archives: Music
Musical Art @ Woodland Walk
Robins enjoying all the creative artwork by the whole school! Well done everyone.
Jackson Pollock (Art) Meets Gustav Holst (Music)
Today, Robins enjoyed listening to Gustav Holst’s ‘The Planets’.
Robins artwork inspired by Jackson Pollock and Gustav Holst
Look at us putting our thoughts onto paper as we are listening to the pieces!
Next we were introduced to Jackson Pollock – an influential American painter, and the leading force behind the abstract expressionist movement in the art world.
Having been inspired by Jackson Pollock. Robins had a go at making their own pieces of art using the paint flicking and blowing techniques to show stars, planets and galaxies.
Extension: Listen below to The Planets – Gustav Holst
Fun with Gustav Holsts
Robins listened to Mars by Gustav Holsts.
Gustav Holst was a British composer best known for his orchestral suite ‘The Planets’. A suite is a group of individual pieces. There are seven pieces in ‘The Planets’ and ‘Mars, the Bringer of War’ is the first one.
In ancient Roman religion Mars was the god of war. Holst composed this piece in anticipation of the outbreak of World War One. It’s a march but an unusual one. Normally a march has 4 beats in a bar so you can say “left, right, left, right” but Mars has 5 beats in a bar; tricky to march to!
Robins used their creativity to imagine what the music could represent.
They also had a go at some of the percussion instruments. We look forward to making our own “War” music later in the week.
Great Guitars
Today, Robins had lots of fun improving their guitar skills.
They are now preparing Christmas songs for the December performance.
Video: Playing Abba tunes on the Glockenspiels
We only had our first lesson on Monday and now we’ve had our second lesson (Wednesday).
In this lesson we listened and appraised a few more Abba songs including Dancing Queen, The winner takes it all and …. Waterloo.
When Mr Lo first mentioned Waterloo there were a few giggles… but Mr Lo soon put them right and told them… “No…. it isn’t a toilet with water…!”
Listening to the songs many pupils expressed their opinions including
Paige – I really like the beat. I’ve heard the songs before.
Leah – I like the words （lyrics)
Tanatswa – I also like the beat
Scarlet – I can hear the guitars again.
Jessica – And we can hear the pianos.
With just two lessons, Robins have excelled again; take a sneek peek at the clip below to see the progression made!
Video: Mama Mia!
It’s a new week and a new topic! This week we’re covering Music! Robins have travelled back to the 70’s and listened to the hugely famous Mamma Mia.
First Mr Lo showed a photo of Abba and asked Robins to guess the decade it’s from. Most chose the 80’s but now we know it’s the 70s! (Abba was a Swedish pop group formed in 1972)
Robins actively listened and pointed out they could hear the drums, guitar and other percussion instruments.
Although we can’t sing the song due to the current Covid restrictions we did develop our rhythm skills and learn about musical notation.
Can you remember which notes we concentrated on? (G / A )
Here is a guide to help you remember.
Finally, Robins had a go on the Glockenspiels and even performed part of the song MamaMia. Have a look at a short clip below!
Extension: At home ask your grandparents if they can remember any more Abba hits!
Don’t forget you can access the lesson on Charanga. Go here to login –> https://charanga.com/site/ (click the pupil login button on the left)
If you can’t remember your login details; please ask Mr. Lo to let you know .
Spanish style tune on the guitars
Robins are getting better and better at playing the guitar.
The second tune they have learnt is a Spanish style tune called Ferruca.
It’s trickier than the 1st tune due to the timing and rhythm and the Robins have loved shouting “ole” at the end.
Video: Robin TV presents Guitars!
Robins are really enjoying their guitar lessons. Every session they have been showing excellent behaviours for learning including curiosity, perseverance and concentration.
Even though they have only had three sessions the Robins are now able to play the E and B string blues with an accompaniment which sounded great.
Below is a video with some clips of our excellent learning!
Discussing the song ‘Lean On Me’
Year 4 have started their new music unit. The children started the lesson listening to and discussing the new song, ‘Lean On Me’ by Bill Withers. The children were very good at discussing the instruments they could hear during the song. They also started learning the song! We will be continuing with this next week.
