Ysgol Pen y Bryn

Our school works on a modular basis whereby each class in Years 5 and 6 (4 classes) have a 6 week Music module of 1 hour per week. We’ve based the modules for all 4 classes since Christmas on Stravinsky’s Petrushka. We’ve followed the ideas suggested in the book and the children have thoroughly enjoyed both the Music , listening and responding to it and also devising their own Carnival based music in groups based on their own ideas of what a carnival would sound like. We’re in the process of refining these now and trying to get the children to make a score of their compositions. We hope to put  the best elements together and perform to the whole school before Half Term. We’ve only managed to listen to  two of the other pieces suggested in the book to date but look forward to developing further modules of work based on them in the future.

Children & the Arts hope you enjoy your arts project. We want to hear how you get on, so use this website to create an online diary of experiences (you can add photos, illustrations and music!). Your teacher will have a login so that you can add pages and diary entries.