Primary Music KS1: Recent Episodes

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Primary Music KS1 offers music resources supporting the Key Stage 1 music curriculum. It has strong cross-curricular links to other areas of the curriculum, including Literacy.

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The first song in the series celebrates the achievements of two extraordinary explorers: Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan.

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Finding out about the lives of two extraordinary monarchs: Henry VIII and Elizabeth I

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Finding out about London immediately before the Great Fire including the plague of 1665.

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Finding out about the Great Fire and singing songs based on well-known nursery rhymes.

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Today's song is about percussion instruments - including the percussion sounds we can make with our own bodies.

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Today's song explores wind instruments and introduces weather sounds, mouth sounds, panpipes, whistles, recorders and trumpets.

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Today's song is an action song built around the sounds of the guitar, ukulele and violin.

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The song in today's programme explores voice sounds, keyboards and electronic sounds.

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Today's song brings together many of the instruments the children have been learning about in a mini-performance.

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Today's song is based on the well-known potato chant, adapted for tomatoes, peas, carrots, with rhythmic munches, crunches and scrunches!

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The song in today's programme is a 'listening-and-doing' action-song, with finger-clicks, knee-taps and low-to-high hand actions for pots and pans, forks, spoons, mugs and plates.

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The song in today's programme is a gentle evocation of many fruits - including magic ones!

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The song in today's programme emphasises the scientific aspects of food and has a funky chorus with rock instruments!

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The song in today's programme explores how food is a key element in celebrations.

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Nigel Pilkington and Sarah Jane Honeywell present the sixth programme in the series and today's song is 'When I was one I sucked my thumb.'

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Nigel Pilkington and Sarah Jane Honeywell present the fourth programme in the series and today's song is 'Suki over the ocean.'

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Nigel Pilkington and Sarah Jane Honeywell present the third programme in the series and today's song is 'My ship sails over the ocean.'

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Nigel Pilkington and Sarah Jane Honeywell present the second programme in the series and today's song is 'There's a hole in the bottom of the sea.'

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Nigel Pilkington and Sarah Jane Honeywell present the first programme in the series and today's song is 'The big ship sails.'

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Nigel Pilkington and Sarah Jane Honeywell present the second of two programmes rehearsing the songs in the series ready for a performance.

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Nigel Pilkington and Sarah Jane Honeywell present the first of two programmes rehearsing the songs in the series ready for a performance.

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Nigel Pilkington and Sarah Jane Honeywell present the fifth programme in the series and today's song is 'A sailor went to sea, sea, sea.'

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The music series ends in the C20th with a celebration of TV and other mass communication.

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Celebrating famous Victorians: the Stephensons, Brunel, Mary Anning and Victoria herself.

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Exploring great composers with songs based on some of their most famous melodies.

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Finding out about rebuilding London with songs based on well-known nursery rhymes.