Welcome to 5B Soundmakers page!

 

Children in class 5B participated in a djembe drumming Soundmakers project from April - June 2023. Sessions were led by drum specialist teacher Tim Dunkerley from our local music hub "Create Music".

Families joined us for a celebratory concert / end of project presentation on Thurs. 22nd June 2023.

 

 

Thurs. 20th April 2023

Our very first session - 5B, you were great, well done! Click on the thumbnails below to see 5B in action!

 

 

......... & click the play buttons below to see how much we learnt in just one session!

5B SM Project wk 1 20-4-23 (1)

5B SM Project wk 1 20-4-23 (2)

 

 

 

 

Thurs. 4th May 2023

Wow, what a great session today! We learnt to play layered rhythm patterns in 3 parts & we're only in the second week of our project - well done!

Have a look at 5B in action:

 

 

 

....& listen to our fabulous rhythm patterns too!

5B SM Djembe Project Wk 2 4-5-23 (1)	5B SM Djembe Project Wk 2 4-5-23 (2)	5B SM Djembe Project Wk 2 4-5-23 (3)
5B SM Djembe Project Wk 2 4-5-23 (4)	5B SM Djembe Project Wk 2 4-5-23 (5)

 

 

 

 

Thurs. 11th May 2023

Congratulations 5B on yet another super session - you're making fabulous progress! Today we reviewed all the patterns we've learnt so far & added some extra "breaks" to our pieces.

Click on the thumbnails & play buttons below to share in what we did:

 

 

 

5B Djembe Project wk 3 11-5-23 (2)	5B Djembe Project wk 3 11-5-23 (3)
5B Djembe Project wk 3 11-5-23 (5)

 

 

 

 

 

Thurs. 18th May 2023

Week 4 & we are continuing to make brilliant progress - click on the thumbnails & play buttons below to see 5B in action!

 

 

5B SM Project wk 4 18-5-23 (2)	5B SM Project wk 4 18-5-23 (6)
5B SM Project wk 4 18-5-23 (9)

 

 

 

Thurs. 25th May 2023

Week 5 of our sessions & our patterns are becoming even more complicated! Click the play buttons below to hear our fabulous progress!

 

 

 

 

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Thurs. 8th June 2023

Week 6 of our project, just one more session before we give our perfomance! Today we focused on making our concert rhythms perfect and added a new pattern too!

 

 

 

5B SM Project 7-6-23 (1)	5B SM Project 7-6-23 (2)
5B SM Project 7-6-23 (3)

 

 

 

Thurs. 15th June 2023

Our final session before our concert - wow, you played brilliantly & worked SO hard, well done! Click the play buttons below to hear just how much progress 5B have made during their project:

5B SM Project wk 7 15-6-23 (1)	5B SM Project wk 7 15-6-23 (2)
5B SM Project wk 7 15-6-23 (4)	5B SM Project wk 7 15-6-23 (6)

 

 

 

Thurs. 22nd June 2023

Concert day!!!! Congratulations - you all played brilliantly & with SO much confidence, very well done!!

A massive thank you to families for supporting this event & providing much appreciated cakes & drinks for celebrations afterwards & a special mention to Tim Dunkerley our inspirational project leader - thank you very much!

 

 

 

 

Click the play button below to watch a photo presentation of 5B's Soundmakers project:

 

 

Congratulations 5B - what a great project!!