Key Learning Objectives: To create a soundscape with an identifiable structure. Starter activity: One group to perform their soundscape from the previous lesson. Response to ask why certain aspects of the performance are not the same as the previous lessons performance. Main activity: Introduce the concept of notation, using the idea of a graphic score to […]
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Year 3, Unit 1: Air – Lesson 2
Key Learning Objectives: To create a soundscape with an identifiable structure. Starter activity: Introduction to the concept of structure, demonstrating its importance through the scenario of a telephone call. Main activity: Create a whole class soundscape of a hot air balloon taking off. Each group to be designated one section of the soundscape structure. Plenary: Performance opportunity, groups […]
Year 3, Unit 1: Air – Lesson 1
Key Learning Objective: To explore and understand timbre. Additional Learning Objective: To contribute to creating a soundscape of a hot air balloon preparing to take flight and lifting off the ground. Starter activity: Explore the Bristol Balloon Fiesta, listen to Lin Marsh’s ‘Hot Air Balloon Song’, learning part one of the refrain. Main activity: Create a whole […]
Year 2, Unit 1: Water – Lesson 6
Key Learning Objective: To sing expressively. Additional Learning Objectives: To listen with concentration to a range of high-quality music. To appreciate how the inter-related dimensions of music ‘work together’ in a composition to create an atmosphere or effect. Starter activity: Sing and record ‘Big boats, small boats’, sung rhythmically, with good pitching of leaps and scales, expressing the […]
Year 2, Unit 1: Water – Lesson 5
Key Learning Objective: To keep a steady pulse and to play rhythms together. Additional Learning Objectives: To feel the pulse whilst listening and internalise the pulse through movement. To build an understanding of the pulse and its role as the foundation of music. Begin to understand that rhythms are patterns of long and short sounds. The […]
Year 2, Unit 1: Water – Lesson 4
Key Learning Objective: To use voices creatively and expressively when singing songs. Additional Learning Objectives: To understand the importance of warming up voices and adopting good posture. To sing songs and melodies musically, pitching high and low notes, moving in steps or leaps. To have an understanding of singing with a variety of dynamics. Starter […]
Year 2, Unit 1: Water – Lesson 3
Key Learning Objective: To understand the difference between pulse and rhythm and to compose a song to a given rhythm. Additional Learning Objectives: To internalise a short simple melody and create lyrics to fit a given rhythm pattern. Starter activity: Listening exercise, play the theme music from ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’, and share words about the sea/pirates/atmosphere […]
Year 2, Unit 1: Water – Lesson 2
Key Learning Objective: To explore the correlation between pitch and high/low notation. Additional Learning Objectives: To create my own symbols to represent sounds. To define music vocabulary –pitch (HIGH and LOW) and identify the pitch when heard. To keep a beat/respond to a beat. Starter activity: Introduce the vocabulary of pitch (high/middle/low) demonstrating these pitches using […]
Year 2, Unit 1: Water – Lesson 1
Key Learning Objective: To read and perform a four bar notated rhythm. Additional Learning Objectives: To know how to handle and make sounds on several instruments. To choose sounds to represent ideas e.g.: calm stormy sea. To play quietly or loudly to represent a calm or stormy ocean. Starter activity: Full-body warm up, mimicking big wave/dainty […]
Year 1, Unit 1: Air – Lesson 6
Key Learning Objective: To understand Rondo form and create a class composition based on this structure. Starter activity: Listening exercise based on the track ‘Carl Goes Up’ by Michael Giacchino. Main activity: Listening and response exercise to ‘Over English Country’ by David Poore, focusing on how the composer uses the instruments to create a relaxing, gliding sensation. […]