A More Detailed Description of the Year 5/P6 course will be posted here shortly.
The Yr4/P5 programme contains 3 intro journeys (which revise Year 4/P5 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 5/P6, children:
Develop your drumming skills- playing high and low notes on your homemade jam-jar mini drum kit.
Explore more interesting shape rhythms- the ‘Cool’ icon for an off-beat, and the Semicircle icon for four sounds per beat.
Learn to play a large scale percussion composition, to prepare a performance piece for the whole class, and to learn a more interesting structure you will use in compositions.
Learn to improvise AAAB and AABA phrases using the Human Piano.
Compose rap verses as small groups for a class song.
Learn a performance piece- with a drum groove made on Hi, Mid and Lo percussion sounds, a melody made from 3 pitches and a simple chord part.
Compose a 3 pitch melody, Hi/Mid/Lo percussion groove and simple chord part, creating a small group performance as a band.
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 5/P6 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 5/P6 course will be posted shortly.
