2012 Curriculum

Year 4 - My Olympics: "The Sound of a Nation" (Anthems)

Key Skills I can read and interpret the meaning of poems; I can recognise the structure of a poem; I can plan and write a poem using a familiar structure; I can understand and explain the impact of powerful songs; I can use powerful vocabulary I can listen to and appraise different pieces of music; I can compose and evaluate a piece of music with a set structure for a particular purpose; I can adapt a poem to fit a piece of music

• Listen to some National Anthems and discuss how the music/lyrics make you feel;
  
• Listen to/Learn the Chorus Numbers from "The World Was All Before Them";

Activities

• Explore, compare and contrast different National Anthems lyrics and music;
  
• From written anthems, explore powerful vocabulary that represents pride, solidarity, strength etc;
  
• In groups compose music that represents strength, pride and solidarity;
  
• Using poems, groups rework into anthems to fit their composition;
  

• Poems celebrating school, Hackney, London and UK;
  
• Anthems for 2012;
  
  

- A Hackney Anthem | London Imagined | Chorus Numbers (from "The World was all Before them" Alistair Middleton and Matthew King) |
- Lyrics for National Anthems around the world |