Key Learning Objective: To learn and maintain a complex rhythmic ostinato. Starter activity: Choose one of the activities from the Rhythm Starter Bank. Main activities: Activity one: Revise what an ostinato is whilst re-listening to ‘Bolero’. Pupils to clap the ostinato and look at the rhythm cards, noticing the triplets. Activity two: Sing through ‘The Greatest Railway’, […]
Category: Unit 2
Year 5, Unit 2: Trains – Lesson 1
Key Learning Objectives: To feel the pulse and identify an ostinato. To learn a traditional song. To improvise actions to the pulse/ beat. Starter activity: Choose one of the pulse or rhythm activities from the Rhythm Starter Bank. Main activity: Listening and response activity using the song ‘Filimioomiooriay’. Ask the pupils to pat their knees to the pulse/beat […]
Year 4, Unit 2: Rhythm – Lesson 6
Key Learning Objectives: To further develop my understanding of notation. To explore texture and pulse by playing rhythms simultaneously in an ensemble. Starter activity: Select an activity from the Rhythm Card Starter Bank. Main activity: Use the Lego notation sets and the Rhythm fraction walls to allow each child to compose a four beat rhythm. Incorporate […]
Year 4, Unit 2: Rhythm – Lesson 5
Key Learning Objectives: To develop understanding of notating rhythms. To compose and notate rhythms. Starter activity: Select an activity from the Rhythm Card Starter Bank. Main activity: Create four beat phrases using the provided Lego notation sets and Rhythm fraction wall, referring to the note value chart to identify the different note lengths within the two […]
Year 4, Unit 2: Rhythm – Lesson 4
Key Learning Objectives: To memorise and perform rhythms with increasing aural memory. To perform as part of an ensemble. Starter activity: Select an activity from the Rhythm Card Starter Bank. Main activity: Incorporate the use of rhythm sticks into playing the call and response game, ‘My sticks, your sticks.’ Gradually develop the complexity of the rhythms, making […]
Year 4, Unit 2: Rhythm – Lesson 3
Key Learning Objectives: To explore how rhythm is used in a non-western musical tradition. To learn about strong and weak beats in Indian talas. To perform Tintal tala with increasing aural memory. To compose and perform an Indian tala inspired rhythm in an ensemble with increasing accuracy. Starter activity: Select an activity from the Rhythm […]
Year 4, Unit 2: Rhythm – Lesson 2
Key Learning Objectives: To use a “thinking voice” to internalise rhythms. To play rhythms faster or slower (changing tempo). Starter activity: Select an activity from the Rhythm Starter Bank. Main activity: Introduce a click track through the concept of a ‘rhythm machine’. Use a chosen Bristol place rhythm to clap over the click track, until each […]
Year 4, Unit 2: Rhythm – Lesson 1
Key Learning Objectives: To develop understanding of reading staff notation. To explore notating rhythms. Starter activity: Select an activity from the Rhythm Starter Bank. Main activity: Listening and response exercise using the game, ‘Don’t Clap our School Back’. Use rhythm cards to sound out the Bristol place rhythms, focusing on how they are notated, culminating in the completion of […]
Year 3, Unit 2: Junk Percussion – Lesson 6
Key Learning Objectives: To explore timbre, texture and rhythm using everyday items as instruments. To listen to and repeat a variety of rhythms using instruments. To play in an ensemble and develop ensemble and listening skills. To explore experimental music by composing rhythms. Starter activity: Select an activity from the Rhythm Starter Bank. Main […]
Year 3, Unit 2: Junk Percussion – Lesson 5
Key Learning Objectives: To explore timbre using everyday items as instruments. To listen to and repeat a variety of rhythms using instruments. Starter activity: Select an activity from the Rhythm Starter Bank. Main activity: Watch the provided videos from ‘Stomp’ the musical and discuss unusual aspects of the performance, focusing on choice of instrumentation and […]