Year 6
Musical Migrants
Human migration involves challenges, taking risks and embracing opportunities.
On this site you can find our unit's learning outcomes, projects and resources.
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What?
What?
We are learning:
- About music fusion
- About artists that migrated because of music
- About songs that have migrated
Why?
Why?
We want to understand:
- The reasons why people migrate (Causation)
- Causes and effects of migration on geography, communities, cultures and individuals (Change)
How?
How?
We will achieve this by using:
- Research skills:
- Gather information from diverse sources
- Present our findings in different formats
- Communication skills:
- Listen to the information given
- Present our ideas clearly
- Social skills:
- Show empathy and care for others
- Collaborate effectively
There are a lot of migrants in our classes. We are using this opportunity to exchange songs and we are creating a catalogue of migrating songs, by teaching songs from our home countries to one another.
Here you can access the Flipgrid Topic with some of the best songs we are sharing. Some students have made a great effort to learn songs in foreign languages.
During this unit, students are learning about musical migrants and how music can be a motivation for people to move countries in search of opportunities. This often brings risks and challenges that they need to overcome.
On the right, you can listen to the life stories of Jesse Lee Jones and Pedro Carrillo and access the guided listening sheets that we used to help us follow their stories:
Pedro Carrillo - Guided Listening.pdfJesse Lee Jones - Guided Listening.pdfDuring this unit, we also discussed the concept of musical fusion: it refers to music that mixes different styles or cultural backgrounds. We learned about three artists that created music influenced by different styles. You can click on the names on the right to listen to their music and on the document to find out some information about them:
Musical Fusion-Gotan-Sawhney-Massi.pdfTo display their understanding of the musical element of their unit, students interviewed all three music teachers here at Uplands to find out about their musical migrations.
Below you can listen to the podcasts they created:
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