Music
Finding Nemo Jr – The McMillan Theatre – Wednesday 29th January 2025.
We have a limited number of tickets to see ACTS Theatre School perform Finding Nemo Jr at The McMillan Theatre, Lower Bath Road, Bridgwater, TA6 4PZ on Wednesday 29th January 2025. The performance starts at 7pm and is due to finish at 8:30pm.
Parents/carers will need to arrange transport to and from the theatre. An agreed meeting point and times will be confirmed at a later date.
The cost of each ticket is £10.00 and is offered on a first come first served basis. Money for tickets must be paid for upfront as we are unable to secure the tickets without payment.
Photos may be taken during this trip. Please make sure your consent preferences are up to date on Sims Parent.
Please visit: www.scopay.com/eastoverprimary to log in to your Child’s Scopay account where you can make payment by Monday 2nd December 2024.
Thank you
Mrs C Midenda
Music teacher
MUSIC AT EASTOVER PRIMARY SCHOOL
Children hear music in many different places; at home, in school and in the community, on television or film, at parties, weddings and cultural festivals, in computer games, in shops, at carnival or the fair.
At Eastover, music lessons focus on teaching children to listen carefully, in order to identify the similarities and differences between pieces of music they hear, and to develop an understanding of the elements needed for composing and performing music. They are introduced to a wide range of musical styles from around the world and from different periods of history. Through singing, playing musical games, exploring sound and creating their own music, as well as learning to play both tuned and untuned instruments, children will experience and appreciate music as listener, composer and performer.
CONTENTS
SINGING
Sing Up songs
Links
PLAYTIME
Ideas for playing instruments at home
Ukulele tuner
YUMU
Introduction to YUMU
How to use YUMU
NEWS ARCHIVE
SINGING
Children at Eastover love singing, so here are some ideas to help them keep singing at home.
Sing Up Songs:
https://www.singup.org/singupathome
BBC: There are lots of resources on the BBC, for example:
Nursery rhymes: https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/nursery-rhymes-a-to-z-index/z4ddgwx
REMEMBER:
- Listen - to the pitch (high or low) and the rhythm (the pattern - long and short sounds plus the spaces in between)
- Listen again - to the way the lyrics (words) fit into the rhythm.
- Sit or stand tall and have a go!
You don't have to like every song, but give them a chance - sometimes a good song takes a while to 'grow' on you!
Playtime
INSTRUMENTS
UKULELE, GUITAR, KEYBOARD:
In school all children have played percussion instruments including xylophone and glockenspiel. Some have begun to learn ukulele, keyboard and guitar. Many of them have already discovered videos on Youtube that teach you how to play an instrument. There are some that show how to play keyboard as well as chords on ukulele and guitar. Children have started learning these instruments in school and YUMU has courses which they could follow at home (please see below for details).
Children may have other instruments at home, or be able to use a phone/tablet app which allows them to play a virtual keyboard, xylophone, drum etc. Again there are videos which can help them to learn. There will be opportunities in the future to perform what they have learned .
STAY SAFE ONLINE: Please remember to ask an adult to help you find these videos
Tuning your ukulele
A ukulele has 4 strings, usually tuned to G, C, E, A, going from top to bottom.
There are a number of useful website to help you tune your ukulele, for example:
ukutuner.com
To tune the ukulele, turn the peg to tighten or loosen the string. The tighter the string, the higher the pitch. Turn a peg a little and check to hear whether the pitch went higher or lower. If you are going in the right direction, keep going, a little at a time, until it matches the required pitch. If not, or if you go too far, turn the peg in the other direction.
YUMU
Introduction to Yumu
Yumu is Charanga’s home learning package for children. Children at Eastover are already familiar with Charanga, because it is now used in many of their Music lessons. Once logged in they will be able to choose an avatar, access some of the games, songs and activities they know from class, earn badges and coins to spend on their avatar, and even learn an instrument.
Getting started:
Go to: https://charanga.com/yumu
or search for Yumu or Charanga Musical School.
Enter your username and password in the boxes on the screen (Pupil/student login):
Your username is the code starting p……….
Your password is a musical word, lower case
Click on the LogIn button.
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Using Yumu
On your Yumu home page you will find Assignments, Charanga Music Word and songs.
Some of these will be units we have used in class. You can find the Follow the Bear games, listening music and songs.
Assignments
These are lesson units with the listening music, songs and games. You don’t have to do everything or every lesson, just explore!
Remember: Your voice is an instrument. If you don’t have an instrument to play or an app with keyboard or glockenspiel, use your voice to match the pitch.
Charanga Music World
If you have an instrument at home, you can use Music World to learn how to play. You can choose an avatar, play games and watch videos about music.
> Click on Charanga Music World
Click Editor to choose an avatar
> Save and Exit
You will earn tokens for choosing an avatar. To change your avatar press EDITOR
> Start
> Choose a world
> + Select world
If you have an instrument at home you can choose that instrument to work on. For example a recorder, xylophone, ukulele, guitar or keyboard. If not, there are lots of free apps which allow you to play keyboard, drums or xylophone on a phone or tablet.
If you don’t have an instrument you could choose Drum Kit World. You could set up a drum kit using empty boxes, tins or buckets! Don’t forget to ask an adult first!
You can add more than one instrument. Go to ‘Change World’ to add another one or change between them.
TROUBLESHOOTING:
If you press the BACK button and it takes you back to the login page, just login again. This problem only seems to happen if you are using a tablet or phone. Your progress will still have been recorded.
News Archive
Year 2 visited Yeovil to watch the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in concert
Responding to music
Everyone feels, hears and notices different things when they listen to music. During the year children will have the chance to respond by drawing while they listen.
Year 3 listened to some music and were asked to colour half the page with patterns or pictures inspired by the music. They weren't told what the music was called! Then they were told that it was from The Firebird by Igor Stravinsky and they drew what they thought a firebird might look like.
Year 1 listened to either The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky or Rodeo by Aaron Copland.
Here are some examples of the children's work: