We had lots of musical visitors this week! Mr Fardon played songs we know in different styles on his piano. We thought of words to describe the music. Mrs Emslie’s sister, Jane, came to play songs on her ukulele. We sang along to some nursery rhymes. She also showed us her saxophone! Chloe, Mrs Copeland’s daughter, bought in her acoustic guitar,
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Mr Riley plays a trumpet and trombone! We recognised some of the tunes he played, such as ‘Incy Wincy’ and ‘Harry Potter’!
This week we have been learning about orchestras and the different families of instruments! Did you know that in an orchestra there is a woodwind section, a strings section, a brass section and a percussion section? We had fun with our ‘Percussion Orchestra’ and our ‘Pots and Pans Orchestra’!
We had great fun dressing up and held a cake sale to raise money for Comic Relief! We raised lots of money! Many thanks for the delicious cakes that you donated and for your continued support.
We had lots of fun dressing up as superheroes for the day and enjoyed eating yummy cakes! We raised lots of money too for Comic Relief!
We have been scientists this week! We have done lots of different experiments to explore the science of sound. We have learned how vibrations make sound waves in the air.
We listened to different pieces of loud music and quiet music. We used different media to ‘dance’ on paper to create patterns.
Key Stage 1 School Council have been making posters to advertise our cake sale on Red Nose Day on Friday March 18th! Cake donations gratefully accepted! Don’t forget to dress up as a Superhero and buy lots of delicious cakes!
In Reception we played ‘Chinese Whispers’ to pass a message round a circle. Then we went outside to do the same over distance, where we had to SHOUT! We had lots of fun learning about loud and quiet voices!
Reception had lots of fun making staircase patterns with unifix cubes! We had to make sure that they were in the correct order. We then played a game where we had to take turns hiding one of the staircase towers and had to try to guess which one was missing!