Music

Welcome back to another exciting and engaging year in Music. I hope everyone had an enjoyable and restful break. This term, students had the opportunity to audition for the Victorian State School Spectacular Mass Choir and Mass Dance. We will also be offering Senior Choir, Junior Choir, School Band, String Ensemble and Year 4 Drum Ensemble.

Foundation

Learning Intention - To understand high and low sounds in melodies and songs.

This term, Foundation students will develop their singing voice and be introduced to class songs. They will begin identifying high and low sounds and develop strategies to identify pitch. Students will also be introduced to beat and rhythm through body percussion. They will also explore C major and A minor chords on ukulele.

Year 1

Learning Intention - To understand the melodic contour in songs.

Students will continue to identify high and low sounds and show their understanding of pitch by pitch pointing on their bodies. They will explore sound and silence within music and develop their ability to sing in a round. Students will discover, a crotchet rest, and explore how it is used within songs. They will also demonstrate their knowledge of pitch by playing class songs on glockenspiel and xylophone.

Year 2

Learning Intention – To understand clever echo on the hand stave.

This term students will continue to develop their aural skills by transferring steps and skips to the hand stave. Students can aurally identify if notes move by a step or by skip. They will now start to transfer this knowledge to the hand stave in order to prepare them for music notation. Students will also be introduced to minims through class songs.

Year 3

Learning Intention - To transfer the hand stave to notes on the stave.

Students will go deeper into steps and skips and transfer their knowledge of the hand stave to ledger lines. They will be composing short songs and melodies using solfa and notation, applying time signatures and bar lines. Students will also be introduced to semiquavers (tika-tika) and the new note ‘do’.

Year 4

Learning Intention - To understand music can be organised and divided into bars.

During Term One, students will investigate through singing and movement, that music is made up of strong and weak beats. They will begin to make connections between, strong and weak beats, time signatures, bar lines and writing music. Students will also have the choice to focus on piano or guitar.

Year 5

Learning Intention – To understand the 12 Bar Blues.

This term students will be exploring the 12 Bar Blues on either piano, guitar or ukulele. They will learn a Blues riff and explore chords and melodies within the structure of the 12 Bar Blues. Students will also make connections between the pentatonic scale and how it is used within the Blues.

Year 6

Learning Intention – To develop an inquiry question on an instrument of choice.

Year 6 students this term will self-direct their learning and choose an instrument they would like to learn more about, following the VCE model, Musical Investigations. Students will create short- and long-term goals, creating an inquiry question to focus on. When they feel confident, students will perform what they have learnt to show they have achieved their goal.

Music Innovation – Year 1 & 2

Learning Intention – To understand how arranging is used in music as a compositional technique.

This term Year 1 & 2 students will explore how arranging is used in music. Students will anaylse different song structures and how a structure engages an audience. Students will then arrange their own songs and decide on how to perform them.