Key Learning Objectives: To read and perform an extended rhythmic composition using traditional notation. I can maintain a rhythmic line and a rhythmic ostinato in an ensemble. To perform with sensitivity and with musicality. Starter activity: Rehearse each two bar rhythm using the backing tracks, focusing on correcting the reading and maintaining the pulse. Main activity: Performance […]
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Year 6, Unit 1: Water – Lesson 6
Key Learning Objective: To perform and celebrate compositions. Additional Learning Objective: To evaluate aspects of final work in relation to musical learning over the term. Starter activity: Listening and response exercise based on Ravel’s ‘Jeux d’Eau’, discuss how the composer give an impression of water. Main activity: In groups, briefly rehearse the ternary form compositions, using graphic scores […]
Year 6, Unit 1: Water – Lesson 5
Key Learning Objective: To compose a rhythmic ostinato inspired by engine sounds. Starter activity: Listening and response exercise based on ‘Connect It’ by Anna Meredith, focus on identifying the ostinato rhythms. Main activity: In groups, work further on the engine compositions. Discuss ways in which groups could combine their rhythms to form a longer piece and or layer […]
Year 6, Unit 1: Water – Lesson 3
Key Learning Objective: To explore and recognise a variety of dynamics. Starter activity: Listening and response exercise based on the provided sound clip of waves. Discuss the shape and dynamics created by a wave. Main activity: As a whole class, using percussion instruments, recreate a wave effect with percussion, voices and body percussion. Create a class graphic […]
Year 5, Unit 2: Trains – Lesson 5
Key Learning Objectives: To compose/notate a rhythm to illustrate an aspect of a train journey. To read and perform a number of notated rhythms. To maintain a rhythmic line and a rhythmic ostinato in an ensemble. Starter activity: Choose one of the pulse / rhythm games from the rhythm activity sheet. Main activities: Activity one: Revise […]
Year 5, Unit 2: Trains – Lesson 4
Key Learning Objectives: To read and perform a rhythm from musical notation. To compose lyrics within a given meter. Starter activity: Choose one of the activities from the rhythm starter bank. Main activities: Activity one:Listening and response exercise based on the work, ‘Etude Aux Chemins de Fer’ by the French composer Pierre Schaeffer. Activity two: […]
Year 5, Unit 2: Trains – Lesson 3
Key Learning Objectives: To explore more complex rhythms and to create an ostinato. To notate a rhythmic ostinato. To add lyrics to match the ostinato rhythm. Starter activity: Choose one of the activities from the rhythm starter bank. Main activities: Introduce the concept of a tone poem through watching Honnnger’s ‘Pacific 231.’ Pupils to write down words […]
Year 5, Unit 1: Air – Lesson 6
Key Learning Objective: To perform, evaluate and celebrate the composition created this term. Starter activity: Vocal warm up with aircraft sounds, going to the extremes of high and low register, working on dynamic contrasts. Then perform ‘Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines’ as a class and record. Main activity: Performing and evaluation, each group to rehearse and […]
Year 5, Unit 1: Air – Lesson 5
Key Learning Objective: To refine and improve our compositions for the Air Fiesta project. Starter activity: Listening and response exercise, play the recordings of the 10-20 second performances from last week. Can pupils identify which aircraft is being represented and use music vocabulary to explain why they think this. Main activity: Pupils to make improvements to their compositions so […]
Year 5, Unit 1: Air – Lesson 4
Key Learning Objective: To combine pitch, dynamics and tempo to create a composition. Starter activity: Listen to twenty seconds of each of the three pieces studied over the previous three weeks, asking pupils to form sentences to describe what they have heard in each using vocabulary learnt so far (pitch, tempo and dynamics.) Main activities: To […]