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Chequerboard: Twinkle, twinkle, little ducks

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Young children sit in class with raised hands
Chequerboard: Twinkle, twinkle, little ducks

SUBJECTS:  History

YEARS:  F–2


A class of children join in a singing lesson on their first day of school in 1974.

Watch and see how school has changed, and stayed the same, over time.


Things to think about

  1. 1.What happens when you have music lessons at your school? What songs do you sing? What instruments do you use in school music lessons? What does your teacher use to play recorded music?
  2. 2.Listen to what the teacher is saying to the children. Look carefully around the room. What do you see on the walls? What two songs do the children sing? The songs are being played on a piano. Who do you think is playing the piano?
  3. 3.Think about how school music lessons are the same and different today. Do you know the songs in the clip? What other songs do you sing at school? What does your teacher use to play music? Is it the same thing that the teacher in the clip uses?
  4. 4.Find out what songs your parents learnt at school. Ask a grandparent, or an older person, what songs they sang at school. Which ones do you know? Find out some different ways of playing recorded music in the past and present.

Date of broadcast: 19 Mar 1974


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