Music Monthly Update #8

As part of their sharing unit on “Personal Histories” students are learning to sing and play some of the songs and nursery rhymes they have learned as young children.

We will also be exploring the historical context of some of these nursery rhymes.

Students will be learning songs that are about different forms of transport such as the MTR Song, Yellow Submarine etc.

Students will also explore how different types of travel and movement can be conveyed through music.

Students will be exploring pentatonic scales and groups of notes to create their own compositions.

They will also explore major and minor scales.

Students will be continuing their work on ukuleles.

They will learn two new chords this month, A minor and D7.

They will learn to sing and play Molly Malone and the Meatball Song.

Students will be looking at the way lyrics and melodies are used to convey meaning in music.

They will be learning to sing and play the partner songs Cats and Mice adding tuned and un-tuned percussion.

Students are finishing off their silent movie compositions and submitting to Google Classroom.

Students will also start learning songs in preparation for their Yr 6 Exhibition and their end of year production of Bugsy Malone.

Summer Concert

The Chamber Choir, Ukulele Group, Percussion Group and Orchestra will be performing in the Summer Concert which will take place on May 24th.