The pupil iPads come with Garageband built-in and tutor Jenni Borthwick has made online lessons to learn how to use this great resource. She has made these two initial lessons, with a part 1 and 2, that will introduce your class how to play their first tunes.
The teaching videos can be accessed in class or at home as part of your blended learning. Further Garageband lessons can be found on our YouTube channel or YMI Team group Making Music.
Video Lessons
Easy GarageBand In The Classroom Part 2A
Easy GarageBand In The Classroom Part 2B
Learning Resources
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For teacher and school staff with access to GLOW all the videos, audio, pintable’s and teacher sheets can be downloaded from our YMI Making Music team Many more Garageband lessons can be found in theIpad for Musicchannel.
Use the code wjimn8lto join the team if you are not already a member.
On our Resource Page you can find the songsheets, MP3 tracks and worksheets for all our Blog posts.
Creative Scotland’s Youth Arts Training and Workshops are aiming to support practitioners and organisations build up their skills and knowledge during the Covid-19 recovery period. The sessions are funded by the Scottish Government’s Youth Arts Fund through with support from Youth Music Initiative and Time to Shine
Creative Scotland have announced two new funding streams under the YMI programme , Access to Music Making and Access to Music Making.
The funds are open to all arts organisations and music educationalists and including tutors and freelancers. The funds are not open for applications from schools, PTAs or local authorities
Access to Music Making
The purpose of the fund is to create access to high quality, music-making opportunities for children and young people aged 0-25 years. The fund is now open for applications. and is offering grants between £1-30k for up to 1 year of activity. Creative Scotland will be running a funding support session on 11 August to support potential applicants with the new online application process.
The fund is also open for applications. The purpose of the fund is to improve the youth music sector infrastructure and services on offer for the benefit of children and young people. The fund is also open for applications and supports grants between £1-20k for up to 1 year of activity. Creative Scotland will be running a funding support session on 11 August to support potential applications with the new online process
The pupil iPads come with Garageband built-in and tutor Jenni Borthwick has made online lessons to learn how to use this great resource. She has made these two initial lessons, with a part 1 and 2, that will introduce your class how to play their first tunes.
The teaching videos can be accessed in class or at home as part of your blended learning. Further Garageband lessons can be found on our YouTube channel or YMI Team group Making Music.
Video Lessons
Easy GarageBand In The Classroom Part 1A
Easy GarageBand In The Classroom Part 1B
Learning Resources
To download files right click on the links and then select either:
For teacher and school staff with access to GLOW all the videos, audio, pintable’s and teacher sheets downloaded from our YMI Making Music team Many more Garageband lessons can be found in theIpad for Musicchannel.
Use the code wjimn8lto join the team if you are not already a member.
On our Resource Page you can find all our songsheets, MP3 tracks and worksheets for all our Blog posts.
Here is a fun and engaging version of Eric Carle’s popular story The Hungry Caterpillar. It is aimed at P1-3 and involves a rap, chanting, actions and follow up literacy and science activities.
Younger pupils can enjoy watching the story presented in a new way with rap
music whilst learning some actions and keeping the beat. There are further
activities for phonics and the science of life cycles.
Older pupils can also challenge themselves to learn and chant bits of the
rap and use the alliterative writing to stimulate creative writing of their own.
There are interactive teaching videos and further activities you can use in your classroom.
Video Lessons
MP3 tracks
The Caterpillar Rap Vocal
The Caterpillar Rap Backing Track
Learning Resources
To download files right click on the links and then select either:
On our Resource Page you can find all our songsheets, MP3 tracks and worksheets for all our Blog posts.
For teacher and school staff with access to GLOW all the videos, audio, pintable’s and teacher sheets downloaded from our YMI Making Music team in the Early Years Emerging Literacy folder.
Use the code wjimn8l to join the team if you are not already a member.
The Gruffalo is the fantastic tale of the mouse who goes for a walk in the woods, by children’s writer Julia Donaldson and beautifully illustrated by Axel Scheffler. Mrs Borthwick teaches us how to sing and act the story in Scots.
We have more songs and tunes in Scots and some by the famous Scottish poet Robert Burns in this post.
Video Lessons
MP3 tracks
Gruffalo-in-Scots
Gruffalo-In-Scots, Backing Track
Learning Resources
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If you can access GLOW you can also see the Gruffalo as a SWAY
On our Resource Page you can find all our songsheets, MP3 tracks and worksheets for all our Blog posts.
For teacher and school staff with access to GLOW more information and all the files can be downloaded from our YMI Making Music team pages and from our YMI Sharepoint. Use the code wjimn8l to join the team if you are not already a member.
The YMI team have produced some resources about the Scottish poet Robert Burns, who wrote some of our most well known songs and poems. He is remembered every year on the 25th January when people around the world celebrate his works on ‘Burns’ night. His most famous work ‘Auld Lang Syne’ is traditionally sung at midnight around the world when the New Year begins. Burns grew up and lived in Aryshire and was just 37 years old when he died. He wrote a lot of poems in Scots, such as the lovely To a Mouse.
“Wee, sleekit, cow’rin, tim’rous beastie”
You can listen to the tutors sing some of his songs, sing along yourself and learn to play them on your iPad . We have added a few of the songs into in this post. and for teachers who can access our GLOW site we have several others you can explore.
If you would like to learn some more about Burns here is a great worksheet for Primary pupils, called Burns for Weans (or children in Scots).
The Creative Learning Network, which sits within the Education department has been successful in their application to deliver the Small Grants Fund on behalf of Creative Scotland. The £50,000 programme will support local musicians and artists to lead activities in music, visual art or moving image. The projects will take place in our schools and youth groups during 2021, with a focus on young people who often miss out on creative activities.
Working in partnership with YouthBorders and supporting local community priorities, the programme will fund around 10 projects across our 5 locality areas.
The Creative Learning Officer stated that ‘The fund will our young people to create and be creative; through a hands-on, practical approach, that reinforces confidence and develops their own voice through the arts and music. We hope the workshops will also encourage the young people to keep up their creative activity beyond the life of the projects, supporting positive wellbeing’
SBC is the only organisation in the south of Scotland to have secured this programme. We will promote the fund early in the New Year and work with YouthBorders to assess which projects to support. The programme will complement work delivered under the Education department’s Youth Music Initiative and YouthBorders YouthWork Recovery projects.
Mrs Borthwick teaches us some Early Years and P1/2 action songs to help with Literacy. Kalele is a welcome song from South Africa and Simama Kaa is an action song from Tanzania.
Simama Kaa is sung in the Swahili language and here are some of the words translated.
Simama – stand up
Kaa — sit down
Ruka – jump!
Tembea – Walk
Here are the words to Simama Kaa
Si -ma -ma kaa chest chest clap head Si -ma -ma kaa chest chest clap head Ruku ruku ruku rub palms together in time to words Si -ma -ma kaa chest chest clap head
Tambea tambea pat knees, jump after the words Tambea tambea pat knees, jump after the words Ruku ruku ruku rub palms together in time to words Si -ma -ma kaa chest chest clap head
On our Resource Page you can find songsheets, MP3 tracks and worksheets for all our Blog posts.
For teacher and school staff with access to GLOW more Early Years information and all the files can be downloaded from our YMI Making Music team pages and from our YMI Sharepoint. Use the code wjimn8l to join the team if you are not already a member.
For the winter term we have created a lesson to learn Jingle Bells in GarageBand.
The song was written by James Lord Pierpont, under the title “One Horse Open Sleigh” in the autumn of 1857. We are not entirely sure of its first use, perhaps it was sung by a Sunday school choir. It did not have an initial connection to Christmas, but has become one of our most common pieces of music played at Christmas and the holiday season. It was first recorded in 1889 on an Edison cylinder and it is believed to be the first Christmas record.
It played in space in 1965 by the Gemini 6 astronauts Tom Stafford and Wally Shirra. On December 16, 1965 they sent this report to Mission Control from their spacecraft.
‘Gemini VII, this is Gemini VI. We have an object, looks like a satellite going from north to south, up in a polar orbit. He’s in a very low trajectory traveling from north to south and has a very high climbing ratio. It looks like it might even be a … Very low. Looks like he might be going to reenter soon. Stand by one … You might just let me try to pick up that thing.’
Have a listen to see if you can understand who they think they can see out of the window.
Words
Before we all had cars it was common in parts of America to add bells to horses’ harnesses to let other travels know you are coming, as the snow could dampen the noise of the horses hooves . The rhythm of the tune mimics a trotting horse’s bells. Below are the modern version of the words we use today.
Jingle Bells
Dashing through the snow
In a one-horse open sleigh
O’er the fields we go
Laughing all the way
Bells on bob tail ring
Making spirits bright
What fun it is to ride and sing
A sleighing song tonight!
Jingle bells, jingle bells,
Jingle all the way.
Oh! what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh.
Jingle bells, jingle bells,
Jingle all the way;
Oh! what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh.
There are a series of 10 short videos that lead you though the project. We have added two of them here but the rest are in the our YMI YouTube Channel iPad playlist
Jingle Bells – An example of how it should sound when finished
Learning Resources
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You can access the 10 video in three ways. If you have access to the schools GLOW network then all the lesson video’s are in the Making Music Team pages, or in the Making Music Sharepoint folder.
For SBC practitioners with access to Glow, join our Making Music Team pages. Use the code wjimn8l to get immediate access
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