P7 have had a very musical week!

We first listened to a classical piece of music and, without being told the title or composer, were asked to interpret the music through Art! We listened to the piece several times and produced some very interesting drawings…

We then learned that the piece was called ‘Storm’ by Benjamin Britten.  It was interesting to compare it to our story, Kensuke’s Kingdom, as the main character Michael had just survived a storm.

After this, we worked in small groups to create our own piece of music to re-tell a part of the story.  We used a range of percussion instruments and also created graphic scores to organise our pieces with one member of each group taking on the role of conductor.  Our graphic scores used symbols, shapes and arrows to explain how the music should be played.  The conductor controlled the tempo.

We spent time rehearsing and then performed our pieces to the rest of the class, explaining the moment in the story they were interpreting and justifying our use and choice of instruments. They were fabulous!