ABC Online for Middle Primary
ABC Online for Year 3 / Primary 4
- 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.
Read What does the Year 3/P4 course cover?
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.
ABC Online for Year 4/ Primary 5
- 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.
Read What does the Yr4/P5 course cover?
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:
Read What happens next session?
- 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.
Read Do I need to do lots of preparation?
- 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.
Read What equipment do I need to teach this?
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.
