Computing and Music

Music

In Class 3 we follow the MUSIC EXPRESS scheme.                                                  

Summer Term

Human Body - Skeleton dances and songs teach the children about the human body. Percussion instruments are used to improvise, create word rhythms and build a final skeleton dance.

Food and Drink - The children cook up a musical feast, enjoying a varied diet of healthy beans, exotic Tudor banquets & DIY pizzas before celebrating with a song performance.

Spring Term

Sounds - How are sounds produced 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 performances from different periods & styles. They learn a Renaissance dance, walk down the aisle to Wagner’s ‘Bridal March’ & dance the Mashed Potato!

Autumn Term 

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

Poetry - The children develop performances of contrasting poems. They use their voices to speak expressively & rhythmically, and discover ways to create ostinato accompaniments to enhance their performances.

Computing

We follow the Teach Computing scheme from The National Centre for Computer Education.

Summer Term

Y3 - Programming A /Sequence of Music

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

Yr4 - 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 actions in everyday tasks and code, predict the output of code snippets, and modify code to produce desired shapes. 

Spring Term

Y3 - Creating Media, Desktop publishing

We will become familiar with the terms ‘text’ and ‘images’ and understand that they can be used to communicate messages. We will use desktop publishing software and consider careful choices of font size, colour and type to edit and improve premade documents. We will start to add text and images to create their own pieces of work using desktop publishing software.

Y4 - Creating Media, Photo Editing

We will develop our understanding of how digital images can be changed and edited, and how they can then be resaved and reused. We will consider the impact that editing images can have, and evaluate the effectiveness of their choices.

Autumn Term

Y3 - Connecting Computers

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

Y4 - The Internet

We will be thinking about how networks work and begin to appreciate that the internet is a network of networks that needs to be kept secure.  We will look at the World Wide Web as part of the internet and learn how to explore it safely.  Finally we will evaluate online contenet to decide how honest, accurate or reliable it is, and understand the consequences of false information.