Year 6 - Boomwhackers
Today during music, the children explored creating music using Boomwhackers! The children experimented with different pitches and rhythms, working together to play a variety of sounds and create music as a team. The children developed their listening skills, sense of rhythm and timing, while learning how to coordinate their playing with others. It was fantastic to see everyone getting involved, showing creativity and discovering how different notes can come together to create music!
Year 5 - Music
Today, Year 5 were introduced to Boomwhackers and learned about their creation and development as musical instruments. We investigated how the length of each tube affects its pitch before performing in a Boomwhacker class orchestra using colour coded notation.
Summer Rocksteady Concert
🎸 What an incredible morning! 🎤 A huge congratulations to all our amazing rockstars for their brilliant Summer Rocksteady concert today! It has been an absolute joy to watch their confidence grow so much over the course of the year. They took to the stage like true professionals and totally rocked the house! 🌟 A massive thank you to all the parents and carers for your endless support and for cheering them on today. Your encouragement makes all the difference! 🙌 Finally, a HUGE shoutout and thank you to Jess for her fantastic music tuition. Your dedication, energy, and talent have truly brought out the very best in our young musicians. 🥁🎹 We are so proud of everyone involved! Keep rocking! 🎶👏 All of the photos can be found here: https://www.stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/photo-galleries/rocksteady-summer-concert
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Year 6 - The Greatest Show
🎪 ✨ Step right up! ✨ 🎩 We are absolutely bursting with pride after our phenomenal Year 6 production of ‘The Greatest Show’! Every single child pushed themselves out of their comfort zone to deliver a truly unforgettable performance. The singing was amazing, the choreography was spot on, and it has been such a privilege to watch their confidence grow so much throughout this journey. 🌟 A massive thank you to all the parents and carers for your wonderful support, from helping to practice lines at home to being such an amazing audience. 👏 We also want to send a huge shoutout and thank you to Mrs Araujo for being an absolutely fantastic Musical Director! 🎶 To all the dedicated staff who worked tirelessly behind the scenes—helping with props, costumes, videoing, and learning lines—we couldn't have done it without your hard work and teamwork. 🎬👗 We hope the children will carry the magical memories of this production with them forever. You truly are the greatest! ❤️🎪
Year 6 Junior Jam - Music
Year 6's new music unit is all about electric drums. Today, the children learned that drums are one of the most important aspects of music, as they help to keep all of the other instruments in time with each other. They learned that drum kits are made up of lots of different types of drums, for example: kick, snare and hi-hat drums. The children then had a go at playing a set of electric drums with a partner.
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Year 3- Music- Exploring Polyrhythms
This morning in music, the class moved on to polyrhythms. Since the children are now comfortable with the hits and rhythms they have been practising, this lesson introduced the concept of polyrhythms. The class was split into different sections, with each group playing a completely distinct rhythm at the same time. As they got more comfortable with layering these patterns, more complex rhythms were introduced to challenge them. This session was a great way to push the children who have already exceeded their regular lesson plans for this half term.
Year 6 Junior Jam - Music
This week was Y6's final week learning how to play African drums. Today, the children learned more about the cultural differences between ourselves and African countries and also watched videos of the drums being played. They were then tasked with composing their own rhythms and some children performed for the rest of the class.
Year 5 - Computing
In this lesson, the children were introduced to the terms ‘melody’ and ‘hook’, with a focus on how hooks make songs catchy and memorable. Year 5 then used the app Garage Band to create their own hook using a range of instrumental sounds, before using this hook to write their own song.
Year 5 Music
In Music, Year 5 continued learning how to play the djembe. After recapping the 3 main ways of hitting the drums (tone, slap and bass), the class began to learn words from a range of African languages and use them as a rhythmic guide for their playing. Counting and clapping exercises were used to rehearse increasingly complex drum rhythms, which were shared with the class.
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Year 6 Junior Jam - Music
Year 6 had a fantastic music lesson with Junior Jam, this week. They learned a traditional Swahili song and then played the hand drum parts alongside the song. The end result sounded great!
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Singing Worship
In our Whole School Singing Worship this morning, we welcomed everyone back into school with a joyful and uplifting sing. We began by singing My Lighthouse and then we sang Our God is a Great Big God, Sing a New Song to the Lord, Life is Always Better and ended our worship with a beautiful rendition of Waymaker. A wonderful way to start the new term!
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Spring Chicken
We ended the term on a high with an energetic sing-along to our favourite Easter songs before a very special visit from "The Spring Chicken" (otherwise known as Mr Mealor!).
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