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1472900227 Music Express 2014 – Year 6

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1472900227 Music Express 2014 10-11 – Year 6. Book with 3 audio CDs and a CD-ROM containing all whiteboard displays, lesson plans, background information etc.

Providing up to date delivery of the new Music National Curriculum from September 2014, this new edition of Music Express offers 60 completely new units of work, which are fully supported by CDs and audio-embedded whiteboard displays.

As ever, Music Express 2014 presents an invaluable resource of great songs, stories, visuals, movies and music from across the world and across history. With new links to every subject and with lesson plans catering to all music curricula of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Music Express is relevant to all schools and all children.

Contents:

  • Unit 1: World Unite
    Musical focus – Step-dance performance; Subject link – PE
    Get into the groove by exploring rhythm and melody in singing, movement & dance. The children learn about beat, syncopation, pitch & harmony, and take a trip round the world to celebrate the universal language of music.
  • Unit 2: Journeys
    Musical focus- Song cycle performance; Subject link – PSHE
    The theme of challenging journeys through life resonates through this selection of songs with thoughts of change & transition, and binds them in an optimistic and uplifting song cycle performance.
  • Unit 3 – Growth
    Musical focus – Street dance performance; Subject link – Geography
    ‘The street’ is the setting for this unit of buskers & flash mobs. The children explore Ravel’s ‘Bolero’ through rhythmical mime, learn songs with instrumental accompaniments and create a dance to build into a thrilling street performance.
  • Unit 4: Roots
    Musical focus – Mini-musical performance; Subject link – English
    A complete musical performance about the effecs of the slave trade in a West African village. The integrated music deatures traditional Ghanaian songs and percussion rhythms, and the infamous spider-man Anasi, who saves the day.
  • Unit 5: Class Awards
    Musical focus – Awards show performance; Subject link – Cross-curricular
    An ideal opportunity to celebrate the children’s achievements at the end of primary school with a musical awards show customized for your class. Individual awards are presented along with fanfare, rap, song & famous music in a final grand ceremony.
  • Unit 6: Moving On
    Musical focus – Leavers’ assembly performance; Subject link – Computing
    Two songs, one looking back, one looking forward, and a musical device linking them to provide a moving celebration of the children’s happy memories and their hopes for the future.