by Scott MCBIRNIE | Sep 24, 2020 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8
The musical journey that Grade 8s have been on so far this year has taken us from Africa to North America. We’ve inquired into the fusion of musics that took place with this migration and have finally arrived at the amazing genre of Blues! Student are beginning to...
by Scott MCBIRNIE | Sep 17, 2020 | Grade 10, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 7 - 10 (MYP)
Why did John Williams, the composer of the music for the first few Harry Potter movies, choose the flute for this scene in The Prisoner of Azkaban? Questions like this – and many more like it! – are being carefully thought through by the Grade 10 music...
by Scott MCBIRNIE | Sep 3, 2020 | Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
Dear ABIS comunity, This week we have had some fun with music instruments bingo, listening to classical Cartoon music and brainstorming with upper grades about our future performances ! I have to say for the first week of online learning the children and their parents...
by Scott MCBIRNIE | Sep 3, 2020 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP)
We’ve spent the first lessons of Grades 9 and 10 MYP Music getting used to the key concepts that underpin the MYP curriculum. After rediscovering (after our long summer break!) what they were, we thought about how they could be expressed as pictures. In the next class...
by Scott MCBIRNIE | Aug 27, 2020 | Grade 11 & 12 (DP)
A lot of preparation has taken place to support both the Grade 11 and 12 students in their Diploma music study when we are allowed to return to ABIS (in whatever setting that will be!). For the Grade 12s, COVID-19 has presented huge challenges which the IB has...
