Music

During our music sessions we will be following the units from our Cheranga online resources - each term year 6 will be given a new musical focus but they will fowllow these main steps of learning:

• Listen And Appraise
• Take part in musical activities
• Warm-up Games
• Flexible games and challenges
• Play instruments with the song
• Improvise witht he song
• Compse with the song
• Peform and share

In year 6 we also have a composer to study throughout the year - listening and exploring their musical compositions and using their style to create some of our own pieces, which incorpotare this.

Our Composer in year 6 is Kerry Andrews:

Kerry Andrew is a composer, performer and writer. She was born in Britain and studied composing at York University where she completed a PhD.

She is perhaps best known for her work with voice; she specialises in experimental voice and choral music, music theatre and community music.

She has written massed choir pieces for 600 performers using their voices and bodies, a 'wild swimming opera', a work performed by 25 ensembles around the UK and a piece to fight for the NHS.

One of her most famous works however is called The Song of Doves and was written to remember victims of the July 7 London bombings.

She has won several awards including three British Composer Awards (one for Community or Educational Project in 2014).

Alongside composing she sings in a vocal group called Juice who have released two albums, You are wolf - an alt-folk group, and DOLLYman – an 'anarchic jazz/ classical/ rock collective'. Kerry has even found time to write a novel which was published in 2018.

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