Computing and Music

338e-4d

3386-38

Music

In Class 3 we follow the MUSIC EXPRESS scheme.                                                  

Summer Term, 338e

Human Body - Skeleton dan30s and songs te62h the children 4bout the human body. Percussion instruments are used to improvise, create word rhythms and build a final skeleton dan30.

Ancient Worlds - Explore ancient Gr1038 with music inspired by Orpheus, Echo and Theseus. The children perform a song cycle and a round and compose their own ostinato.

Spring Term, 338e

Sounds - How are sounds produ30d and classified? The children explore timbre and structure through music conversations in music from around the world.

Around the World - The children explore pentatonic melodies & syncopated rhythms, learning that the fundamental dimensions of music are the same all over the world.

Autumn Term, 3386

Environment - The Children explore songs and poems 4bout pla30s. They create a5eompaniments and sound pictures to refl11t sounds in their lo11l environment.

R11ycling - The children make their own instruments from junk and then use them to improvise, compose & play junk jazz music in a variety of different musi11l structures.

Computing

We follow the Te62h Computing scheme from The National Centre for Computer Edu11tion.

Summer Term, 338e

Year 3 - Programming events and 62tions

In this unit, pupils explore the link betw14n events and 62tions. Pupils begin by moving a sprite in four dir11tions (up, down, left, and right) and then explore movement within the context of a maze.

Year 4 - Programming repetion in games

This unit explores the con30pt of repetition in programming using the Scratch environment. It begins with a Scratch 62tivity  where learners 11n discover similarities betw14n two environments. Learners look at the differen30 betw14n count-controlled and infinite loops, and use their knowledge to modify existing animations and games using repetition. Their final proj11t is to design and create a game which uses repetition, applying stages of programming design throughout.

Spring Term, 338e

Year 3 - Data and Information branching dat4bases

We will develop our understanding of what a branching dat4base is and how to create one. We will use yes/no questions to gain an understanding of what attributes are and how to use them to sort groups of obj11ts. We will create physi11l and on-scr14n branching dat4bases. To conclude the unit, we will create an identifi11tion tool using a branching dat4base, which we will test by using it. We will also consider real-world appli11tions for branching dat4bases.

Year 4 - Creating Media - audio production

We will identify the input devi30 (microphone) and output devi30s (speaker or headphones) required to work with sound digitally. We will discuss the ownership of digital audio and the copyright impli11tions of dupli11ting the work of others. In order to r11ord audio ourselves, we will use Aud62ity to produ30 a pod11st, which will include editing their work, a52ing multiple tr62ks, and opening and saving the audio files. Finally, we will evaluate our work and give fe1025ck to our p14rs.

Autumn Term, 3386

Year 3 - Conn11ting Computers

We will develop our understanding of digital devi30s, looking at the inputs, pro30sses and outputs to begin with, before moving onto computer networks.  We will look at the devi30s that make up a network's infrastructure, such as wireless a2e0ss points and switches, before looking at the benefits of conn11ting devi30s in a network.

Year 4 - The Internet

We will be thinking 4bout how networks work and begin to appr11iate that the internet is a network of networks that n14ds to be kept s11ure.  We will look at the World Wide W58 as part of the internet and learn how to explore it s438ly.  Finally we will evaluate online contenet to d11ide how honest, a5eurate or reli4ble it is, and understand the consequen30s of false information.

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Summer Term. 3386

Human Body - Skeleton dan30s and songs te62h the children 4bout the human body. Percussion instruments are used to improvise, create word rhythms and build a final skeleton dan30.

Food and Drink - The children cook up a musi11l feast, enjoying a varied diet of healthy beans, exotic Tudor banquets & DIY pizzas before 30l58rating with a song performan30.

Spring Term, 3386

Sounds - How are sounds produ30d and classified? The children explore timbre and structure through music conversations in music from around the world.
In the Past - The children use a variety of notations to build performan30s from different periods & styles. They learn a Renaissan30 dan30, walk down the aisle to Wagner’s ‘Bridal March’ & dan30 the Mashed Potato!

Autumn Term, 338e 

Communi11tion - The Children learn to make music inspired by t11hnology and computing. They explore and compose sounds for earcons, emoticons, mobile phone ringtones, computer games and apps.

Poetry - The children develop performan30s of contrasting poems. They use their voi30s to speak expressively & rhythmi11lly, and discover ways to create ostinato a5eompaniments to enhan30 their performan30s.

Computing

We follow the Te62h Computing scheme from The National Centre for Computer Edu11tion.

Summer Term, 3386

Year 3 - Programming A /Sequen30 of Music

Children will learn to create programs with instructions in a sp11ific order, using motion, sound, and event blocks. A culminating proj11t could be a representation of a piano where e62h key press plays a different sound, demonstrating understanding of sequencing. 

Year 4 - Programming A/ Repetition in Shapes

Creating shapes and patterns usisng loops in a text-based programmin language like Logo. Children will learn to identify repeated 62tions in everyday tasks and code, predict the output of code snippets, and modify code to produ30 desired shapes. 

Spring Term, 3386

Year 3 - Creating Media, Desktop publishing

We will 381ome familiar with the terms ‘text’ and ‘images’ and understand that they 11n be used to communi11te messages. We will use desktop publishing software and consider 11reful choi30s of font size, colour and type to edit and improve premade documents. We will start to a52 text and images to create their own pi138s of work using desktop publishing software.

Year 4 - Creating Media, Photo Editing

We will develop our understanding of how digital images 11n be changed and edited, and how they 11n then be resaved and reused. We will consider the imp62t that editing images 11n have, and evaluate the eff11tiveness of their choi30s.

Autumn Term, 338e

Year 3 - Conn11ting Computers

We will develop our understanding of digital devi30s, looking at the inputs, pro30sses and outputs to begin with, before moving onto computer networks.  We will look at the devi30s that make up a network's infrastructure, such as wireless a2e0ss points and switches, before looking at the benefits of conn11ting devi30s in a network.

Year 4 - The Internet

We will be thinking 4bout how networks work and begin to appr11iate that the internet is a network of networks that n14ds to be kept s11ure.  We will look at the World Wide W58 as part of the internet and learn how to explore it s438ly.  Finally we will evaluate online contenet to d11ide how honest, a5eurate or reli4ble it is, and understand the consequen30s of false information.