Beat of the Drum: September 2016

Thursday 22 September 2016

Olympics!

This term all classes have taken part in learning songs and dances from around the room in honour of the Olympic Games. I hope you all had as much fun as I did. Next term we continue dance with creative dance around the idea of "Flight" and Music starts back in week 4!

Paint yourself in Woad

If you looked at the year 6's dances to "Paint yourself in Woad" you would also like to check out the year 8's dances. The year 8's also learnt some basic Irish dance steps and created a sequence to go after their Blended cultural dance. The cultures are as follows: Juanita's group - Indian, Maori and Argentinian; Sajiha's group - Indian; Afu's group - Brazilian and African; Reon's Group - Maori and English; Ana's group - Indian and Scottish; Manu's group - Tongan, Samoan, Cook Island and Maori. My apologies to Manu's group as I missed part of your dance when my camera ran out of memory.

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Tuie Tuie

After Australia the juniors went to Samoa. Have a look at room 2 dancing "Tuie Tuie".

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Dancing Round the Tree

The Juniors travelled to Australia this week. Here is room 1 doing the dance "Dancing Round the Tree"

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Wednesday 21 September 2016

Mexican Hat Dance

Room 4's have learnt lots of dances from around the world over the past three weeks. This is them doing their favourite dance - "The Mexican Hat dance".

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Paint yourself in Woad

This week the Year 6s and Year 8s have travelled to Ireland. They learnt some basic Irish dance steps and created a sequence. They then decided on another culture and created a sequence of those. When you watch the year 6s watch for their blended cultures. Brooklyn's Group - Maori; Angari's Group - Samoan/Tongan; Jeremiah's group - Spanish; Mataio's group - Indian/African/Maori/Australian Aboriginal; Jona Dana's group - Niuean and Tiava's group - Tongan/Samoan.

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Mairi's Wedding

This week Room 5, the Year 5s and Year 7s have travelled to Scotland. They learnt a Scottish Country Dance called "Mairi's Wedding" and watched some video's of other dances. They then needed to work in groups to create their own Scottish Country Dance. This is the result.

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Hey Dumba

Over the last few weeks the juniors have been learning a song from Brazil called "Hey Dumba". This is room 4 singing the song.

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Thursday 15 September 2016

Jibidi

This week the Juniors have been travelling around Europe. They learnt "Jibidi" which is a traditional dance from France.

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Cook Island Rhythms

This week LS2 took a journey to the Cook Islands. We watched some videos and each of the classes had an expert from the Cook Islands to help. What a great effort.

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Wednesday 14 September 2016

Crocodile Country

Room 5 also have travelled to Australia. They had the same stimuli as LS1 but had different instructions. Room 5 needed to choose 6 movements that represented their animal and needed a starting and end shape. Can you tell what animal each group are?

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Crocodile Country

The Seniors have taken a trip to Australia. They had a variety of stimuli to help inspire their dances today. First we watched some Australian Aboriginal dances showing the Kangaroo Dance, Emu Dance, Crocodile Dance and then the Snake Dance. They also had an Australian Aboriginal painting and some movement words. They roughly had a minute of music to do their dance to. Check out the result. Can you tell what animal each group is?

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Pinon Pinon

The Juniors are off to Europe this week. This is room 4 learning the "Pinon Pinon" dance from Spain.

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Thursday 8 September 2016

Africa Calling

LS2 have also travelled to Africa this week. Here are their shared ideas for African dancing.

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Africa Calling

Room 5 watched the Zimbabwe dance teacher and worked as a whole class then as a whole group using "Call and Response". We ran out of time for sharing so here is some of the groups practising.

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Hey Dumba

The juniors are learning a song called "Hey Dumba" This is a Brazilian song about the waterfall in the rainforest. Room 1 have learnt the two parts and are practising singing them together.

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Recorder Karate

It's awesome to see that Music learning continues at home. We are focusing on dance for the next three weeks but some LS2 students have continued to practise the recorder at home. Well done Juanita and Jessie on grading today

Wednesday 7 September 2016

Africa Calling

LS1 took a trip to Africa this week for dance. They watched three lessons by a Zimbabwe Dance teacher and then created their own "Call and Response" dances inspired by the African Dance learnt. The year 6's had a surprise ending with an entirely improvised dance by the last group of boys.

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Dances from "The Americas"

The Juniors this week are exploring dances from The Americas. They learnt a dance from Mexico "The Mexican Hat Dance" and a dance from Bolivia "La Mariposa".