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Supporting Content

• Video resources exploring the traditional story of Jack through music activities.

  

• The traditional story is told in a seven episode animation...with fun songs to learn.

  

• Songs celebrating all kinds of food from around the world, including how to eat healthily

  

• Exploring all kinds of instruments and the sounds they make - played alone and together

  

• Favourite traditional songs celebrating fun, laughter and summer days beside the sea

  

• Based on an ancient tale of the Hopi tribe and blending rich Native American sounds

  

• The Song Tree and the National Curriculum

  The national curriculum for music in England states that it aims to ensure all pupils:

  - perform, listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of historical periods, genres, styles and traditions, including the works of the great composers and musicians

  - learn to sing and to use their voices, to create and compose music on their own and with others, have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument, use technology appropriately and have the opportunity to progress to the next level of musical excellence

  - understand and explore how music is created, produced and communicated, including through the inter-related dimensions: pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure and appropriate musical notations

  The Song Tree is a lively series built around learning songs, singing and musical activities and in particular encourages:

  - good singing technique and music practice
  - using the voice in different ways
  - breathing and posture
  - phrasing
  - high/low; loud and quiet; fast and slow; rhythm
  - higher and lower
  - going up; going down
  - steps; jumps; slides

  The series can be used to target key objectives from the curriculum, including to:

  - learn to sing and to use their voices

  -听create and compose music on their own and with others

  - understand and explore how music is created, produced and communicated, including through the inter-related dimensions: pitch, duration, dynamics, tempo, timbre, texture, structure

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