Steel drums!

This term we are looking at Carnivals and Mardi Gras celebrations around the world. We've been researching the types of music, costumes, feasting and dancing involved.
Last week we visited Papdale School to listen to their steel band and to have a go ourselves. Ms Geddes gave us some music to try on the steel drums and it was amazing how quickly we learned the different parts and put it all together as a recognisable tune.
Have a look at the slide show of us below and watch the video clip to see how we sounded after less than an hour of playing time!

Slide show

Playing our tune - can you tell what it is?

We are making colourful carnival masks in art and will post photos of them when they're finished. 

We learned that certain colours have meaning during the Carnival celebrations so we are making some designs using those colours for a display.

Purple Represents Justice. Green Represents Faith. And Gold Represents Power.