P2/3/4 Music Terms 1-3 2022-23

One of the highlights of P234 music lessons this year has been having some of the P6/7 pupils in to assist.  These pupils have been so patient with the younger pupils who in turn have been very appreciative of their efforts.  They taught the class songs and rhymes, helped them to learn to play music on various instruments and demonstrated how to play their own instruments.

A large part of music lessons for the younger children are the Kodaly singing games and rhymes which introduce pupils to basic music literacy and understanding music in a fun way.  Singing is a very important aspect of music education, especially in the formative years and one of the highlights of the year was the class performance of two versions of ‘Away in a Manger’ (Shetland dialect and signing) which they worked so hard to perfect.  Special thanks to Mrs Moar and Mrs Graydon for helping us with this and to the P7 pupils who accompanied the pupils on the guitars.

The pupils also had some fun in term 2 with ‘Hairy Scary Castle’.  This was a composing activity where the pupils had to invent sounds using body percussion and instruments to accompany the spooky story and there has been more super musical ‘show and tells’ from some of the brave children.  The other pupils in the class are always so attentive when listening to these and come up with some very interesting questions and feedback about the performances.

Whatever we have been doing in classes one of the main objectives has been for the pupils to have fun and enjoy music and I think we have all managed to do that!