ABC Online for Middle Primary

ABC Online for Middle Primary

ABC Online for Year 3 / Primary 4

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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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Click on links below for pop-up sample screenshots. 

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ABC Online for Year 4/ Primary 5

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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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Click on links below for pop-up sample screenshots. 

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Click here for ABC Music for Lower Primary

Click here for ABC Music for Upper Primary

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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