P4 Paper group had lots of fun creating their own music today.

Following on from their exploration of Carnival of the Animals pupils were to choose an animal and then create music using percussion instruments.  The audience then had to guess which animals they were describing.

Videos of the performances will hopefully be uploaded soon.

During our first lesson in music many weeks ago some pupils felt a little unsure and nervous about the idea of learning music.  However they showed great enjoyment and had a sense of achievement as they learned how to play some new instruments and performed in front of an audience.  Well done!

The P4 Rock group visited the Dick Institute yesterday to participate in workshops relating to David Walliams.  Pupils had an excellent time and a great learning experience.

Pupils also had the opportunity to use iMovie to create trailers based on titles similar to David Walliams.  The wonderful staff will send us these trailers so we can watch them on the big screen!

We’d like to say thank you to the staff at the Dick Institute for a super day. 🙂

Here is an example for this week’s P4EL maths homework using a Mild challenge example:

A small slip with these instructions are stuck into pupils’ jotters.

Many thanks

Miss Ellis

To celebrate Roald Dahl’s birthday P4EL explored literacy and maths using his work as inspiration.

We revised nouns using ‘George’s Marvellous Medicine’.  Pupils identified what things George put in his ‘marvellous medicine’.  Pupils had a lot of fun adding in their own ideas too.

In maths pupils worked on solving word problems based on Roald Dahl’s characters and stories.  They could choose the mild, hot or extra hot challenge.

P4 have been experiencing the wonderful world of the orchestra and classical music.

They have been learning the instrument families and some of the individual instruments.

This week’s classical music was Carnival of the Animals – pupils listened to some of the pieces and had to guess which animal it was based on by using clues in the music.  As time went on pupils were able to describe the rhythm, pitch and volume of the music in relation to animals.