Over the course of this term in Y3, the children have not only been learning how to play a new instrument – the recorder – but have also been learning how to read music.

On the recorder we have been practising every week how to hold it correctly, which we will carry on embedding, and how to play the notes; B, A, G, C, D. We have been learning that different notes mean different things and therefore we have to play the note longer or shorter. We have learned that a minim is worth 2 beats, a crotchet is worth 1 and a quaver is worth 1/2 a beat.

We have learned lots of different songs but our favourite was the first part of Jingle Bells and some of the children played it at the Christmas Carol Concert.

Now that we are familiar with the very basics we will continue practising how to play the recorder in our music lessons.