Year 4 Music
Y4 Ocarina Playing
In Y4, we have started to learn the ocarina, which is an exciting new challenge for this year group. We are having to work very hard to control our breathing and to move fluently between the different notes.
Lots of the pupils ask about getting their own ocarina for home. There is no pressure to do this, but the type we use in school are from ‘Ocarina Workshop’ and are a ‘4-hole ocarina’ and can be bought online from most general online retailers and music shops.
Group 1 Ocarina - Down and Up
Group 2 Ocarina - Ladder Song
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Y4 Singing
We’ve had a lot of fun learning the song ‘Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machine.’
Group 1 Magnificent Men
Group 2 Magnificent Men
Student Special Interest
We were really pleased to have one of our Y4 students bring in a Ukrainian instrument for us to hear. (Especially relevant as it’s a woodwind instrument and uses some of the same skills as the ocarina.) The instrument is known as a ‘Cопiлка’ and looks a bit like this:
Y4 Student playing the ‘Cопiлка’
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