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.