Category: Unit 1

Year 3, Unit 1: Air – Lesson 3

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 […]

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 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 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. […]