ABC Online for Middle Primary

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A fun, child-centred creative music course, delivered through your whiteboard.
Movies explain all activities and concepts, allowing you to learn with your class.
Interactive activities allow your class to practice creative skills on-screen,
before composing and performing in small groups with handouts and classroom instruments.
Save and print online traffic-light assessments, and download handouts and curricular planning sheets.
Easy to use for ALL staff, even those who feel unconfident with music.

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The Year 3/P4 course develops:

Active listening skills, visual attention, gross and fine motor skills, language and social skills.
A sense of rhythm and pitch, as well as instrumental and singing skills.
Literacy and mathematical skills and concepts, through the use of symbols and numbers.
Communication, confidence and emotional literacy, through discussion and peer-to-peer feedback.

The Year 3/P4 course helps children:

Compose and perform in small groups, using downloadable handouts- with instructions as movies on-screen.
Easy-to-use shape notation allows children to compose rhythms performed on voice, body and percussion. Square = 1 sound per beat, Circle = two sounds per beat.
Create untuned percussion pieces, melodies on tuned percussion, and add lyrics to compose simple songs- which can be adapted to different topics.
Follow a powerful X-factor-style audition format- with groups performing as bands, with band names.
Use auditions to drive rhythmic and instrumental skills development, turning children into experienced and confident performers.
Explore Materials further- creating sound sequences out of objects made from paper, wood, polystyrene, metal etc.
Complete self-reflective diaries on the creative process and performance.

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A fun, child-centred creative music course, delivered through your whiteboard.
Movies explain activities and concepts, allowing you to learn with your class.
Interactive activities allow your class to practice creative processes on-screen, before composing and performing in small groups with downloadable handouts and classroom instruments.
Save and print online traffic-light assessments, and download curricular planning sheets.
Easy to use for ALL staff, even those who feel unconfident with music.

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The Year 4/P5 course develops:

Active listening skills, visual attention, gross and fine motor skills, language and social skills.
A more sophisticated sense of rhythm and pitch, as well as instrumental and singing skills.
Literacy and mathematical skills and concepts, through the use of symbols and numbers.
Communication, confidence and emotional literacy, through discussion and peer-to-peer feedback.

The Year 4/P5 course helps children:

Develop small group composition and performance still further, using downloadable handouts- with instructions as movies on-screen.
Use rhythm, pitch and lyrics to compose simple songs- which can be adapted to different topics.
Make and use homemade shakers to create vibrant percussion parts.
Explore more interesting shape rhythms- the ‘Cool’ icon for an off-beat, and the Semicircle icon for four sounds per beat.
Develop improvising skills using voice and tuned and untuned 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.
Complete self-reflective diaries on the creative process and performance.

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Additional questions:

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Each Online course contains enough material for a whole year of study in a mainstream class.

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3 Intro Journeys at the start of each course, (except Rec/P1), review material from the previous one.
A rangefinder tells you where to begin teaching in the new session, for classes who didn’t complete the previous course, or who are new to ABC.
This allows children to move smoothly through the programme.
When starting ABC for the first time, begin teaching at Intro Journey 1 for your year group.

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Doing some preparation will help you deliver a better class, adapt activities to your themes and topics, and will make you feel more relaxed, especially if teaching ABC music is new for you.
But we know teachers are busy, so all the resources are written in simple language, with a clear layout.
Lesson plans are laid out like a script- so if you need to, you can take a lesson plan, and say to children- “Let’s see what we have to do today!” and run the activity by reading it out step-by-step.

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Everything you need should be in most classrooms. You need:

A set of standard classroom instruments- tuned and untuned percussion- eg wood blocks, tambourines, shakers/maracas, chime bars, drums/tambours, xylophones/glockenspiels and beaters etc.
A computer with an internet connection.
An interactive whiteboard with connected speakers.

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