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Vocal Starters. Loosen up and begin.

Vocal specialist shows how to start a vocal session.

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Vocal Starters. 'Give Me Five' commentary

Vocal specialist explains rationale behind 'Give Me 5' vocal starter.

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Vocal Starters. 'Give Me Five'

Children respond to teacher actions like 'Give Me 5', Give Me 10, Low 10...

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Vocal Starters. 'Have you brought' commentary

Vocal specialist explains the rationale behind 'Have you brought your voice?

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Vocal Starters. Have you brought your voice?

Children are encouraged to respond to a question in contrasting voices.

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Peter & The Wolf. Pupil conductor

Pupils play chants on instruments conducted by a pupil.

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Peter & The Wolf. Planning

The teacher explains the planning around a Y4 module on Peter & The Wolf.

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Peter & The Wolf. Performing chants.

Children, conducted by the teacher, perform chants as a whole class.

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Peter & The Wolf. Feedback: The Characters

Children's groups feedback to class on chants they have created.

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Peter & The Wolf. Creating Characters

Inspired by the music, children create chants for each character.

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Peter & The Wolf. Instruments use

Linking instruments and characters.

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Engaging Boys in Singing

These Whole Class Instrumental Teachers have brought all three year groups to the hall for a larger singing lesson.

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KS2 Part Singing

These Whole Class Instrumental Teachers have brought all three year groups to the hall for a larger singing lesson.

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Developing Pitch: Primary Choir

This call and response song is triadic in nature.

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Developing a Primary Choir

These Whole Class Instrumental Teachers have brought all three year groups to the hall for a larger singing lesson.

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Y6 Brass Performance

This brass group was introduced to the beginning of Swing Low Sweet Chariot.

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The Singing Starter

The voice is the most portable instrument we have.

2:65

We Have Begun

In this Year 6 brass group lesson, it is possible to observe the conditioning of the group.

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Part Playing 2

The outcomes of simple part playing. Rounds are an excellent way to first introduce this to students.

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Part playing 1

In this group brass lesson the teacher introduces Frere Jacques in stages.

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Introducing New Pieces

Group teaching offers a excellent opportunity to contextualise learning.

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Stages to Learning

In this group brass lesson the teacher uses a backing track on a repeated cycle to stage the preparation for performa...

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Clear Instructions

Working with larger groups can unveil some simple problems in the pedagogy of how to approach giving instructions.

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Using Pupils to Model

This teacher uses a student to assist in modelling the warm up in this group lesson.

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Extended Rhythm game

See Rhythm Game for the first stage of this learning game. In this short clip the teacher extends the level of challe...