Beatles Rock Band: Week 2

The second week of our Rock Band unit and things are getting serious in class. A little competition has broken out between groups from the jamming sessions but at the same time they are all supporting each other and helping out!
So what’s in store this week fo S3 GC.
Mon P7: Graphics as normal with Mr A.
Wed P1: Second jamming session with Mr B.
Thurs P6: Pupils have to hand in their homework at the start of the lesson. It was easy this week; each pupil was to graphically design a band logo/name and bring in a CD Jewel Case.
We will also be starting our first short Graphics Unit this week:- Producing our band tour poster and promotional literature. Part manual graphics, part computer aided graphics (CAG).
A hard days night!
Day 2 of our Games Based Learning unit of work and the pupils have really thrown themselves into the sessions on the instruments. A couple of the groups have already decided upon names and are working on logos – this is a surprise. The first 2 homework tasks have been set.
We spent the period jamming to a number of songs with scores ranging from 14,000 points to 110,000 yes ONE HUNDRED AND TEN THOUSAND points! I like the picture above because it shows two ‘lefties’ playing the guitars – a real challenge. (Paul McCartney is a lefty too).
Pupils are also supporting each other and each others groups by standing in for absentees and helping with singing – they are turning out to be really confident, effective contributors in class.
I have updated the BRB photo album on the right of the page as of today.
Stay tuned for more games based fun.
Beatles Rock Band – Lesson 1
This is a quick snap of some pupils getting familiar with BRB during our first session today.
During the lesson, pupils split into 5 groups of 4 and were set on the homework task of coming up with 1 possible band name and graphic or logo to go with the name of the band. This has to be presented to the whole band early next week. The 4 members of the band have also decided on their group roles within the band.
All is going well so far and the pupils ended the lesson jamming to some of the tutorial videos in the game just to get them used to the game…tomorrow it’s ‘jamming session’ number 1.










