Last Thursday everyone took part in a drumming workshop. A man came into our school to teach us how to use these special African drums. He said that he had lived in Africa for a while to study the instrument. We spent the day learning different rhythms and learning more about the culture in Africa. He showed us videos about Africa and told us stories about what he did when he was there. He also spent a lot of time telling us about all of the different places he had been to when travelling which was really interesting. At the end of the day we all came up with our own rhythms in groups and preformed them to the rest of the class. We all really enjoyed the drumming workshop it made us all really want to travel and I definitely learnt a lot about Africa and the culture there and of how much drumming means to them as it was preformed by their ancestors. Although they probably gave everyone else in the school a headache we loved trying to make music with the drums.
Talk to you soon,
Aisling x
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