Welcome Song

Upper primary students this week are making music right away! Here are videos of Year 4-6 as they learned a welcome song and created half the dance - all on the first day. Very talented kids.

4L

4C

4J

4H

5G

5R

5B

5J

6M

6W

6C

6J

Pentatonic Tunes in Year 4

In year 4 we have been learning about the pentatonic scale. We have had a go at improvising using the 5 notes and then turned our improvising in to composing by working in pairs to create short tunes. This video shows how some of the children in 4BH got on, see what you think and let me know by leaving a comment below.

Year 4 Ostinato compositions

Year 4 have been learning about repeated patterns (ostinati) in music. This week they have been creating their own patterns using instruments and combining them with other patterns. Take a look at these two videos to see how two of the groups got on.

Year 4 Compositions

In Year 4 we have been learning about composition and notation. We learnt how we could create music to describe things and also how we could use graphic notation to write down our music. In groups we created music in an ABA structure to describe different natural disasters like volcanoes and earthquakes. Click read more to see some videos of our work.

Pentatonic Music in Yr 4

In Year 4 we've been learning about Pentatonic Music - this is music created using 5 notes. We learnt about improvising and then had a go at composing short tunes in pairs. Have a look at this video of some of the work from 4D and 4J in the first video and 4M and 4BH in the second.