A More Detailed Description of the Year 4/P5 course will be posted here shortly.
The Yr4/P5 programme contains 3 intro journeys (which revise Year 3/P4 material) and 7 journeys of new material, with over 50 lesson plans.
A creative music programme brings a warm spontaneous atmosphere to your classroom, with fun but richly meaningful social interaction in all your music sessions.
Creativity is supported by a balance of choice and structure, embedded into the activity design. This helps teachers and guides children to produce clear musical outcomes that engage and excite, while leaving them with genuine creative decisions to make, with the resulting feeling of ownership and achievement.
What Skills & Concepts Will Children Learn- Brief Summary
The programme develops:
active listening skills, visual attention, gross and fine motor skills, language and social skills- and develops a sense of rhythm and pitch, as well as instrumental and singing skills.
The use of symbols and numbers develops literacy and mathematical skills and concepts.
In Year 4/P5, children:
Develop small group composition and performance on untuned and tuned percussion further, using downloadable handouts.
Use rhythm, pitch and lyrics to compose songs- which can be adapted to different topics.
Develop drum rudiment skills with the Star Drummer Pack- using left and right sticking patterns in composition and performance.
Make and use homemade shakers to create vibrant percussion parts.
Perform large scale compositions as a whole class on chime bars, shakers and percussion- to prepare pieces for perfomance and learn notation, arrangement and instrumental skills.
Explore performing and composing in three beat bars.
Develop improvising skills using voice and percussion.
Follow a powerful X-factor-style audition format- with groups performing as bands, with band names.
Use auditions to drive instrumental skills development, turning children into experienced and confident performers.
Explore concepts of call and response, AABA Phrases
Introduce and expore the concepts of resolution (A Feeling of Ending)/ and variation (Same but Different).
Skills for improvising with pitch are developed using the simple concepts Repeat/Alternate/Jumble on chime bars.
Auditions drive rhythmic and instrumental skills development, turning children into experienced and confident performers.
Children follow a powerful X-factor-style audition format- with groups performing as bands, with band names.
Working in small creative groups becomes more familiar- and there is plenty of advice in structuring space and time within the classes to support the creative process, by using ABC’s x-factor-style audition format- where bands role-play performance and get feedback, and either pass on to the next level- or are asked to practice more and repeat the audition.
Groups need to rehearse and perform their composition in progressively more difficult ways to progress through all the auditions- starting by saying the rhythm, then clapping it, then playing their shape compositions on percussion. In some activities groups have to add lyrics or pitch, and play their compositions on chime bars, or sing them, to pass the harder auditions.
The Year 4/P5 course progresses in small steps, but maintains throughout a focus on individual children making decisions, and other children listening to, understanding and acting on those decisions- whether using visual cues and symbols, or spoken or musical language.
This social process underpins the creative classroom, and is used to explore the creative use of simple musical fundamentals. Children become experienced in building simple but meaningful musical structures at a level right for them- using notation and sounds that are comfortable for them.
A fuller description of the Year 4/P5 course will be posted shortly.
