Without music, life would be a mistake.
Music is a universal language that embodies one of the highest forms of creativity. A high quality music education should engage and inspire pupils to develop a love of music and their talent as musicians, and so increase their self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement. As pupils progress, they should develop a critical engagement with music, allowing them to compose, and to listen with discrimination to the best in the musical canon. National Curriculum for Music, purpose of study
At Lansbury Lawrence, we follow the Sing Up Music curriculum progression
What does music make you feel like?
In Year 2, we started our computing unit on Creating Music by listening to some compositions and describing how they make us feel. The music was written by Gustav Holst - he wrote a piece of music about each planet in our solar system. Listen to the pieces for...
Getting Musical in Riley Class
Today in Riley class, we had a wonderful workshop from our visiting musical friend, Aga! This was our 3rd workshop with Aga this year - we have previously practiced our singing, rhythm and composition with him in the autumn and spring terms. In today's session, we...
Music, Music, Music 🎼🎶🎶
A day of music and lots of fun in year 3 ended with both classes composing their own songs using claves and glockenspiels. Students were pleased to see how creative they could be, and their compositions helped them learn about timbre, graphic scores and playing as an...
Young Voices
Last night members of the choir performed to a packed audience of thousands at London's O2 arena as part of Young Voices. What a brilliant experience, from the initial rehearsals to the final performance which included professional singers, dancers and beatboxers....
Making Music
Today in Lichtenstein class we had a music workshop with our music organizer Aga, we learned about timbre an aspect of music which is all about the sound and similarities of different instruments. We composed music with instruments such as the glockenspiel and wrote a...
Making Music
Year 5 are working on an exciting orchestra project with THAMES music this term. We are getting the chance to put our instrument lessons to good use by coming together and performing as a whole year group orchestra, composing our own score for a film. We have been...
Year 6 Has the Rhythm, Yes We Do! Year 6 has the Rhythm, How ‘Bout You?
In our music lesson today the year 6s learned about syncopation, which is when a is a musical term meaning a variety of rhythms played together to make a piece of music, making part or all of a tune or piece of music off-beat. We sang different songs and made beats...
The Lansbury Lawrence Choir at Canary Wharf
The choir had an outing to Canary Wharf DLR today, where they were invited to perform. They sang a Christmas medley to a captive audience. They made over £80, which will go towards our future Young Voices choir trip later in the year. Thank you to everyone who came...
Stone Age singing 🧔⛰️
Year 3's learning about prehistoric times took them back to the Stone Age in music last week. Ms Wiley and the students learnt and innovated songs that reminded them about how our ancient relatives hunted for and gathered their food, where they lived and how they...
The arts at Lansbury Lawrence
We were very pleased to have been asked to take part in a Researching Arts in Primary Schools research project led by the University of Nottingham. We were selected because we offer an exceptional arts education to our children. This is something we are very proud of....
