Today, we were exploring ragtime and listening to works by Scott Joplin. We also identified syncopated rhythms from extracts of the Jungle books.

• To sing and clap a syncopated rhythm for a ragtime style song
• I can play on the off beat and understand what this is
• I can clap a short syncopated rhythm
• I can sing a syncopated rhythm

I know what ragtime music is.

Pupils should be taught to:

•  experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions
  of music
•  play tuned and untuned instruments musically
• use their voices expressively and creatively by singing songs and speaking chants and
  rhymes’
• I can perform confidently
• I can work as part of a group to perform a story
• I can add the right music to my story at the right time.

We have been learning to play our instruments. To improve our performance we have been thinking about taking it in turns to play and building our piece to have rhythm and dynamics.

As our composition is for a superhero theme tune it increases in tempo, and we build our rhythm and melodic structure.