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Sketching Songs

Overview In this lesson students begin to understand the functions of lyrics in a song. As they analyse and discuss the lyrics of the chosen song, they will begin to develop an understanding of how words are chosen to elicit a particular emotional response from the listener. Description You can select any song you like,  Full Article…

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Sound Walk

Overview In this activity, students will use their locality to develop their understanding of musical components. This activity assumes that students will have some knowledge and understanding of basic musical elements: timber/tone, pitch, structure, dynamics, duration, tempo, texture and silence. During the activity, they will investigate these further so that they can use them effectively  Full Article…

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MUSIC MAESTROS

PROJECT Curricular Areas: Music, ICT, Language. Learning Opportunities & Skills: Video/audio creating editing and sharing, collaboration, composing and performing music, group work. About this Unit: Students have fun exploring the subject of music and sound by investigating innovative composition and performance ideas. Based on the assumption that music should elicit an emotional response, students investigate several musical genres  Full Article…

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Animation and Cinema

PROJECT Curricular Areas: Visual Media in Language & Literacy, Art, Music and ICT. Learning Opportunities & Skills: Reading comprehension, creative writing, collaboration, script writing and animation. About this Line: Based on a traditional tale or literary work, this project helps students develop different skills related to the arts and literacy. Students are asked to select, read and interpret a  Full Article…

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Drawdio

Father Christmas brought me a great new toy and I  spent most of last weekend playing with Gethin, Ffion, Gweno and Bronwyn (diolch plant!) and the DRAWDIO ‘pen’. Drawdio is another amazing bit of kit from Jay Silver and Eric Rosenbaum from MIT Lifelong Kindergarten, the same stable as Makey Makey which we featured in  Full Article…

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Learning Gangnam Style in Ysgol Gyfun Gartholwg

I’ve been meaning to share this video for ages, I think it’s brilliant and it showcases what kids can do.  The video is in Welsh (because it’s a Welsh medium school) and the title ‘Atalnodi’ means punctuation.  It stresses the importance of good punctuation and gives some of the basic rules, including some peculiarly Welsh  Full Article…

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